About us

Grave Matters was established by Natalie Greenwood and Claire Cock-Starkey with the view to creating a more informal platform than a lecture series or conference, where death studies – an area both of us are working in for our PhDs – could be explored across a number of different themes, disciplines and time periods both academic and non-academic.

As such, we want Grave Matters sessions to be a chance for energising discussion of current work being undertaken into the field of death studies, which is why we have asked speakers to keep to ten minute papers and allowed time for comments, questions and ideas developing out of the presentations afterwards. We hope that whatever your interests, level of study or stage in your research, you will enjoy participating in our series of online events.