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

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 (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.

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 (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; 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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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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).

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael-Fox, Bethan; Letherby, Gayle; Norwood, Tamarin and Woodthorpe, Kate From Writing to Doing: Strategies for Approaching Loss, Dying and Grief in Auto/Biographical Writing. Illness, Crisis and Loss (Early access).

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.

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.

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.

Selman, Lucy; Sowdon, Ryann and Borgstrom, Erica (2021). “Saying goodbye” during the COVID-19 pandemic: A document analysis of online newspapers with implications for end of life care. Palliative Medicine, 35(7) pp. 1277–1287.

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.

Visser, Renske; Borgstrom, Erica and Holti, Richard (2021). The Overlap Between Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care: A Scoping Literature Review. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 40(4) pp. 355–364.

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; 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.

Driessen, Annelieke; Borgstrom, Erica and Cohn, Simon (2020). Placing death and dying:the work of making place at the end of life. In: Palliative Care Congress, 19-20 Mar 2020, Telford.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (2022). Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: Mapping Examples of Use in Practice. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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 and Visser, Renske (2021). The Death Studies Podcast [Podcast]. The Death Studies Podcast.

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.

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