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Woodthorpe, Kate; Frisby, Helen and Michael-Fox, Bethan eds. (2025). Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past. Death and Culture. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.

Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, S.; Evans, R.; Klass, D.; Okoth, H.O.; Pendle, N.; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Riek, J.J. (2025). Contemporary responses in Africa to the aftermath of death: developments and decolonising challenges. Mortality (Early access).

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Giaxoglou, Korina (2025). Narrative practices of death, dying and mourning. In: Frick, Karina; Gröbel, Lea and Siever, Christina Margrit eds. Tod und Trauer – analog:digital: Linguistische und theologische Perspektiven. Sprache und Wissen (SuW). De Gruyter, pp. 117–137.

Greenfield, Mari; Borgstrom, Erica; Hudson, Briony and MacArtney, John I. (2025). To Know Dying: Identifying research areas in palliative and end of life care for the social sciences and humanities. Health Open Research.

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MacKian, Sara (2025). Using Stories to Explore the Everyday Place of Spirit Agency. In: Woodhead, Linda; Cadman, Louisa and Graham, Nicole eds. Messy Methods in Researching Religion. UK: Oxford University Press (In press).

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Mallon, Sharon; Borgstrom, Erica and Murphy, Sam (2025). The art of ‘sensitive’ supervision: supporting, sharing and strengthening. In: Liamputtong, Pranee ed. Handbook of Sensitive Research in the Social Sciences. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 55–63.

Coleclough, Sharon; Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske eds. (2024). Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Bashir, Kirsten; Clare, Emma; Pestano, Catherine; Ramsay-Jones, Esther and Borgstrom, Erica (2024). Understanding end-of-life doula care provision: reporting on the design of a bereavement survey to evaluate doula support. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 18

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Borgstrom, Erica; Driessen, Annelieke; Krawczyk, Marian; Kirby, Emma; MacArtney, John and Almack, Kathryn (2024). Grieving Academic Grant Rejections: Examining Funding Failure and Experiences of Loss. Sociological Review, 72(5) pp. 998–1017.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Henry, Claire; Jordan, Joanne and St Ledger, Una (2024). Small Steps, Big Vision - Grab and Go Children and Young Adult Services. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Borgstrom, Erica; Jordan, Joanne and Henry, Claire (2024). Speaking to me made them feel that they had someone: Evaluation of Rainbow Trust’s out-of-area, online support service. The Open University.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Jordan, Joanne; St Ledger, Una and Henry, Claire (2024). Small Steps, Big Vision: using multi-stage qualitative research to develop a grab-and-go guide to support utilisation of the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care framework. BMC Palliative Care, 23, article no. 151.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Schiff, Rebekah; Khan, Shaheen; Hindley, Esther; Thayabaran, Darmiga; Savage, Emily; Gough, Nicholas and Holti, Richard (2024). Practices, issues and possibilities at the interface between geriatrics and palliative care (InGaP): An exploratory study and knotworking. Health Open Research, 6(12)

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Borgstrom, Erica; Sowden, Ryann and Selman, Lucy (2024). Reflecting Grief During a Pandemic: Online UK Newspapers’ Reportage and Researchers’ Experiences. In: Coleclough, Sharon; Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske eds. Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249–264.

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Borgstrom, Erica and Visser, Renske (2024). Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement. Critical Approaches to Health. Abingdon: Routledge.

Golding, Berenice; Hamilton,, Sukhbinder and Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2024). Complex worlds, complex people: Auto-ethnographic conversations on decolonising the aftermath of death. In: Mallon, Sharon and Towers, Laura eds. Death, Dying and Bereavement: New Sociological Perspectives,. Sociological Futures. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 159–171.

MacArtney, John I.; Greenfield, Mari; Hudson, Briony and Borgstrom, Erica (2024). Identifying research themes for social sciences and humanities research into dying and palliative care: Secondary analysis of James Lind Alliance refresh - Protocol. Health Open Research.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). My favourite fictional academic. Times Higher Education.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). Five books to help if you are dealing with death and bereavement. The Open University.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). Exploiting Opportunities and Exposing Inequalities: Telling Covid-19 Stories in Host (2020), Mythic Quest (2020–) and For Life (2020-2021). In: Bernardi, Verena; Giammanco, Amanda D. and Mißler, Heike eds. Covid-19 in film and television: watching the pandemic. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). Troubling Entanglements: Death, Loss and the Dead in and on Television. In: Peterson, Jesse D.; Dekker, Natashe Lemos and Olson, Philip R. eds. Death's Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human. Death and Culture. Bristol University Press.

Michael-Fox, Bethan; Coleclough, Sharon and Visser, Renske (2024). Introduction to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. In: Coleclough, Sharon; Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske eds. Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 1–22.

Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2024). Mrs Death Misses Death (Salena Godden, 2021) – Death as a Black Woman. In: Bronk-Bacon, Katarzyna and Bacon, Simon eds. Death in the 21st Century: A Companion. Genre Fiction and Film Companions, 12. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang Group AG, pp. 215–222.

Sharon, Coleclough; Michael-Fox, Bethan and Renske, Visser (2024). Conclusion to Difficult Death, Dying, and the Dead in Media and Culture. In: Michael-Fox, Bethan; Sharon, Coleclough and Renske, Visser eds. Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 265–275.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Bashir, Kirsten; Pestano, Catherine and Ramsey-Jones, Esther (2023). End of Life Doula UK Evaluation: Leeds and Surrounding Areas NHS Commission. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Cohn, Simon and Driessen, Annelieke (2023). Forms of care: study overview and collated outputs. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; The Open University.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Harris, Claire A.; Jones, Kerry and Mallon, Sharon (2023). Bereavement during employment in Higher Education (UK): 2023 Survey Report. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Henry, Claire; Jordan, Joanne and St Ledger, Una (2023). Realising the Ambitions: Insights from how People Understand, Interpret and Implement the Ambitions Framework for Palliative and End of Life Care. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Henry, Claire; St Ledger, Una and Jordan, Joanne (2023). What is community? Understanding notions of community in relation to English palliative and end of life care and the Ambitions Framework. In: Palliative Care Congress, 16-17 Mar 2023, Edinburgh.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Jordan, Joanne; St Ledger, Una and Henry, Claire (2023). Small Steps, Big Vision - Grab and Go Guide to support the realisation of the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care. The Open University.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Jordan, Joanne; St Ledger, Una and Henry, Claire (2023). Small Steps, Big Vision - Grab and Go Customisable Template to support the realisation of the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care. The Open University.

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Cohn, Simon; Driessen, Annelieke and Borgstrom, Erica (2023). Human and Person when life is fragile: New relationships and inherent ambivalences in the care of dying patients. Science, Technology, & Human Values (early access).

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2023). (Un)Dead Together: Hospitality, Hauntology and the ‘Happily Ever After’ in American Horror Story. In: Hand, Richard and O'Thomas, Mark eds. American Horror Story and Cult Television: Narratives, Histories and Discourses. Anthem Series on Television Studies. London: Anthem Press, pp. 129–142.

Teggi, Diana (2023). The role of anticipatory prescribing in care homes: identifying dying, complying with regulations and preventing death in hospital – a qualitative study. In: BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 13(1) A10-A11.

Zuaro, Beatrice (2023). Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures. English for Specific Purposes, 70 pp. 267–279.

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Borgstrom, Erica and Dekker, Natashe Lemos (2022). Standardising care of the dying: An ethnographic analysis of the Liverpool Care Pathway in England and the Netherlands. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44(9) pp. 1445–1460.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Jordan, Joanne and Henry, Claire (2022). Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: Mapping Examples of Use in Practice. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Earle, Sarah; Blackburn, Maddie; Lizzie, Chambers; Downing, Julia; Flemming, Kate; Hale, Jamie; Marston, Hannah; O'Dell, Lindsay; Sinason, Valerie; Watts, Lucy and Whitney, Sally (2022). Bearing witness at a time of crisis: Methodological reflections on interviewing young adults with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions in inclusive research. In: Hospice UK National Conference: Finding a Way Forward, 22-24 Nov 2022, Glasgow, UK.

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Hamilton, Sukhbinder; Golding, Berenice and Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2022). Do we need to decolonise bereavement studies? Bereavement: Journal of Grief and Responses to Death, 1(1)

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Iniesto, Francisco; Pitt, Rebecca; Weller, Martin; Farrow, Robert; Cronin, Catherine; Funk, Johanna; Lambert, Sarah; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Paskevicius, Michael; Pete, Judith; Roberts, Verena; Rodes, Virginia and Vladimirschi, Viviane (2022). The GO-GN Fellowship reflections report. Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN). The Open University (UK).

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). Michael-Fox on Caswell, 'Dying Alone: Challenging Assumptions'. In H-Death, H-Net Reviews H-Death, H-Net Reviews.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). [Book Review] Death in Contemporary Popular Culture edited by Adriana Teodorescu and Michael Hviid Jacobsen. Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, 8 pp. 422–424.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). [Review] HEAR ME… Voices from a Care Home during the Covid 19 Pandemic by Anna Mankee-Williams and Ruth Heholt. The Revenant, 8 pp. 425–429.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). [Book Review] Man-Eating Monsters: Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture by Dina Khapaeva (Editor). Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural(8) pp. 430–432.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). Practising Creative and Autobiographical Writing: Writing, Death and the Self. In: Richard, Povall and Mat, Osmond eds. Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change. Dartington: Art.Earth, pp. 325–338.

Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2022). Death for Young Adult Audiences: Complexity, Complicity and Critique in Pretty Little Liars. Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural(8) pp. 20–46.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2022). Death and the Screen [Special Issue]. In Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske eds. Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Issue 8: Death and the Screen Revenant Journal: Issue 8.

Driessen, Annelieke; Borgstrom, Erica and Cohn, Simon (2021). Placing death and dying: Making place at the end of life. Social Science & Medicine, 291, article no. 113974.