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

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 (In Press).

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; Driessen, Annelieke; Krawczyk, Marian; Kirby, Emma; MacArtney, John and Almack, Kathryn (2023). Grieving Academic Grant Rejections: Examining Funding Failure and Experiences of Loss. Sociological Review (Early access).

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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; 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.

Michael-Fox, Bethan; Coleclough, Sharon and Visser, Renske (2023). 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.

Sharon, Coleclough; Michael-Fox, Bethan and Renske, Visser (2023). 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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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.

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'. 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]. Revenant Journal: Issue 8.

Borgstrom, Erica; Cohn, Simon; Driessen, Annelieke; Martin, Jonathan and Yardley, Sarah (2021). Multidisciplinary team meetings in palliative care: an ethnographic study. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Early access).

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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 (2021). ‘Exhausted, emotional, at breaking point’: The mental wellbeing of young adults with shortened lives. In: Hospice UK National Conference: A New World, 3-5 Nov 2021, Liverpool, 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 (2021). 'I could almost just disappear, and would anyone really notice?' Precariousness and precarity when living with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition during the coronovirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the UK. In: European Sociological Association Conference: Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures, 31 Aug - 3 Sep 2021, Barcelona, Spain.

Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2021). The Death Studies Podcast. The Death Studies Podcast.

Teggi, Diana (2020). Care homes as hospices for the prevalent form of dying: An analysis of long-term care provision towards the end of life in England. Social Science & Medicine, 260, article no. 113150.

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Borgstrom, Erica; Ellis, Julie and Woodthorpe, Kate eds. (2019). Researching Death, Dying and Bereavement. Routledge.

Jones, Kerry and Birchley, Giles (2019). End of life care: A scoping review of experiences of Advance Care Planning for people with dementia. Dementia, 18(3) pp. 825–845.

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Pile, Steve; Bartolini, Nadia and MacKian, Sara (2018). Talking with the dead: spirit mediumship, affect and embodiment in Stoke-on-Trent. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(2) pp. 170–183.

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Blackburn, Maddie; Chambers, Lizzie and Earle, Sarah (2017). Editorial - Talking about sex, relationships and intimacy: new guidance and standards for nurses and other health and social care professionals working with young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(10) pp. 2265–2267.

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Murphy, Samantha and Cacciatore, Joanne (2017). The psychological, social, and economic impact of stillbirth on families. Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 22(3) pp. 129–134.

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Draper, Jan (2014). Embodied practice: rediscovering the 'heart' of nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70(10) pp. 2235–2244.

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Earle, Sarah; Komaromy, Carol and Layne, Linda L. eds. (2012). Understanding reproductive loss: perspectives on life, death and fertility. Farnham: Ashgate.

Borgstrom, Erica; Henry, Claire; St Ledger, Una and Jordan, Joanne (2003). 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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