Fellow’s Profile
Kate Woodthorpe
Fellow’s Profile
Kate Woodthorpe
Public Health Funerals and alternative models and methods of support
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Finding out how other countries provide funerals for the most marginalised members of society
Countries
Fellowship year
2023
Supported by
Locality
South West
Biography
I am a sociologist at the University of Bath and Director of the Centre for Death and Society. I have conducted research on funerary practices and costs, welfare support for funerals, and families at the end of life.
In this Fellowship I will visit comparable countries to see how other welfare states provide funerals for their most marginalised communities, such as people with no family, people who have no money or people who are homeless. I hope to bring back lessons to inform UK practice and standards for public health funerals, so that we have a fair, transparent and consistent funeral safety net for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Disclaimer
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
