Three members of the Centre for Open Thanatology share their insights, experiences and advice on death and loss.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Grief, bereavement and memorialisation
Courses tagged with "Grief, bereavement and memorialisation"
Grief is personal, shaped by culture, identity and experience. Bereavement professional Remi Martin reflects on loss, resilience, and navigating life after losing a significant person, especially within racially minoritised communities.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
How do bereaved fathers find support after losing a baby shortly before or after birth? This article looks at men’s experiences of belonging to a Sands United football team (the stillbirth and neonatal death society).
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
The Pandemic has brought losses, death, and changes to everyday life on a global scale. At The Open University, we reached out to students, staff and alumni to hear about their experiences.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Check out the FREE content from Open Thanatology, The Open University’s interdisciplinary research group for the study and education of death, dying, loss and grief.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
The death of Phillip Hughes will have a huge psychological effect on his teammates, writes Caroline Heaney.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
The presence of the body is delicately avoided when people gather at a graveside to remember their lost, explains Kate Woodthorpe.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Erica Borgstrom and Jon Rainford share how you can help bereaved neurodivergent children with some guidance and advice.
Category: Health
Explore interesting and challenging ideas around death, dying and grief. This free course, An introduction to death, dying and grief, invites you to think more deeply about death and dying and encourages you to think about it in different ways. This course will introduce you to different perspectives on death; ethical issues related to dying and end-of-life care; as well as expressions of grief.
Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, there are resources included in the course for further information and support.
Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, there are resources included in the course for further information and support.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
What does the Harry Potter series have in common with our Muggle world when it comes to death and bereavement? Dr Sam Murphy explores.
Category: Public Health
In this free course, The First World War: trauma and memory, you will study the subject of physical and mental trauma, its treatments and its representation. You will focus not only on the trauma experienced by combatants but also the effects of the First World War on civilian populations.
Category: History & The Arts
Up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered during the genocide of 1994. A quarter of a century on, how does Rwanda memorialise that event?
Category: History
The heritage traditions of Scotland are unique in comparison to the rest of Britain. This free course, Heritage case studies: Scotland, uses two case studies to demonstrate how heritage sites have helped to forge the Scottish national identity and history.
Category: History
David Bowie's later work showed him taking on the taboo of death with the vigour he'd used to break barriers of gender and identity, says Elizabeth Tilley.
Category: Music
In Ancient Rome was physically violent mourning seen as a true manifestation of the mourners’ grief, or was the bodily expression a performance?
Category: Classical Studies