written by Gina Tarditi, PhD student with the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group When I began the online Master’s programme in End of Life Studies at the University of Glasgow in January 2021, I never imagined that I would form a lasting bond with my fellow students, all from different countries and cultures, that… Continue reading →
Written by Graeme Hendry, MSc., NMP, RN In 2022, I was fully immersed in the University of Glasgow’s End of Life Studies MSc. Programme. The module entitled Cultural Representations of Death and Dying invited me to create a unique, artistic representation of the end of life. I chose to create a painting depicting the death… Continue reading →
Between 2019 and 2023, I led a research study called Dying in the Margins. This was funded by UKRI and supported by Marie Curie. The study was an attempt to better understand the experiences of people dying at home in circumstances of financial hardship and deprivation in the UK. Uniquely, we used a variety of visual methods to capture… Continue reading →
Written by Annemarie Samuels and David Clark The contribution of the social sciences to the field of palliative and end of life care has been steadily growing in recent decades. With that we see emerging centres of interest: conducting research and teaching students in areas such as sociology, anthropology, psychology or health and social policy. New… Continue reading →
The recent invasion of the National Guard into Washington DC has been unsettling to many across the US and the world. One of the reasons the current Trump administration has given as to the need for the national guard to be in the capitol is homelessness. Trump has ordered unhoused residents out of Washington DC… Continue reading →
On 29th November 2024 the U.K.’s House of Commons voted in favour (330 to 275) of giving Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill a second reading in the UK parliamentary process. This was a momentous moment in the history of the right-to-die movement which I have been researching for nearly… Continue reading →
Today (13th May 2025), the 129 members of the Scottish Parliament vote on whether the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) bill passes to stage 2 and makes its way towards becoming an Act of Parliament. It is 10 years since Scottish politicians voted on the issue and the international picture has changed considerably… Continue reading →
Written by Michelle Sok I HE, MSc in End of Life Studies When I first planned my 20-day spring trip across the UK and Northern Europe, I expected good coffee and tea, grey skies, and the occasional rocky castle and cathedral. What I did not expect was to walk into a series of deeply human… Continue reading →
