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Kate Woodthorpe is a former Open University lecturer; she's now a lecturer in sociology at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.

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The taboo body: How memorial practices avoid the corpseCreative Commons Image Robin Webster under CC-BY-SA licence

By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Dr Kate Woodthorpe (Guest)

23 May 2011

The presence of the body is delicately avoided when people gather at a graveside to remember their lost, explains Kate Woodthorpe.  Read more : The taboo body: How memorial practices avoid the corpse

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The Cemetery of the Year AwardsCreative Commons Image MikeTraboe via Flickr

By Dr Kate Woodthorpe (Guest)

22 September 2009

Kate Woodthorpe talks about the hard work and dedication of some special people: The Cemetery of the Year Awards  Read more : The Cemetery of the Year Awards

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Studying death Featuring: video, Jupiter Images

By Dr Kate Woodthorpe (Guest)

22 September 2009

Kate Woodthorpe introduces The Open University Death and Dying course  Read more : Studying death

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Hockey, Jenny; Komaromy, Carol and Woodthorpe, Kate eds. (2010). The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.

Woodthorpe, Kate (2009). Reflecting on death: the emotionality of the research encounter. Mortality, 14(1), pp. 70–86.

Meyer, Morgan and Woodthorpe, Kate (2008). The Material Presence of Absence: a dialogue between museums and cemeteries. Sociological Research Online, 13(5),

Woodthorpe, Kate (2007). My life after death: connecting the field, the findings and the feelings. Anthropology Matters, 9(1),

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Kate Woodthorpe is a former Open University lecturer; she's now a lecturer in sociology at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. She has a particular interest in contemporary death, dying and bereavement practices. She is convenor of the British Sociological Association's social aspects of death, dying and bereavement study group, and is a judge for the Cemetery Of The Year Awards.

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