Open Thanatology Hub
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.
Looking for some new learning? Check out our free courses, resources, and activities on the Open Thanatology Hub on OpenLearn. What might you dig into this #ThanatologyThursday?
07.08.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#ThanatologyThursday coincides with the last day of this academic year for us! What a year it has been! Thanks for all of your support and engagement. We hope to see many of you at our events in the new academic year.
31.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
- The Death Studies Podcast
The Death Studies Podcast is a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies.
This #ThanatologyThursday why not check out the Death Studies Podcast, which is co-hosted by Beth Michael-Fox, who's an Open Thanatology member.
24.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We offer a 60-credit undergraduate module on death, dying and bereavement at The Open University. It is delivered online and each student is part of a tutor group. You can find out more and register here:
17.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cream-coloured historic building with tall windows and a columned entrance under a partly cloudy sky. Text reads: 'Free campus tours | 17-19 September 2025'.
A large church building surrounded by grass, trees and shrubbery. Text reads: 'Free campus tours | 17-19 September 2025'.
A vast array of green trees, foliage and flowers in a walled garden. Text reads: 'Free campus tours | 17-19 September 2025'.
External view of the rear of Walton Hall in Milton Keynes. Text reads: 'Free campus tours | 17-19 September 2025'.
Back by popular demand! 🤩 Join our FREE guided campus tours during #HeritageOpenDays and uncover the fascinating history of the OU’s #MiltonKeynes site.
📍 Betty Boothroyd Library, Walton Hall
📅 17–19 Sept
🎟️ Book now: www.open.ac.uk/library/libr...
Plus, enjoy exhibitions & the OU Archive Cinema!
20.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We offer a 60-credit undergraduate module on death, dying and bereavement at The Open University. It is delivered online and each student is part of a tutor group. You can find out more and register here:
17.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Time for unboxing. Exciting to have my own copy at last! @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social.
15.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
If you haven't listened to Lady Swindlers (and Lady Killers), you're missing out! And well done @sophiemhistory.bsky.social for contributing to the series!
17.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by The Open University Library
What is Library Search? An overview from your OU Library team. #shorts #openuniversity #studytips
Want to help your students feel more confident with their #research?
Our latest YouTube Short introduces Library Search to help students find reliable sources and succeed in their assignments. ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/-ohkb...
More bite-sized Library Search tips coming over the next few weeks! 🎥✨
16.07.2025 09:49 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Microsoft Forms
One more day to tell us what you think about our most recent event on advance care planning (whether you joined us live or watched the recordings). We'd love to hear from you! - forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
15.07.2025 08:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Check out this fab new book from our member @valmhope.bsky.social on Romans' funeral rites and mourning. #deathstudies
14.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Open Thanatology Talks!
Podcast · Open Thanatology Talks! · Welcome to Open Thanatology Talks! A podcast produced by Open Thanatology from The Open University in the United Kingdom. Open Thanatology is the Open…
Today we've released a new episode of Open Thanatology Talks! It's titled (How) does the public engage with Advance Care Planning? It's based on one of the panel discussions from our recent conference. open.spotify.com/show/1l3R8lJ... #ThanatologyThursday
10.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Title slide for a powerpoint called The Mutability of Madness: Determining Sanity in the English Inquest 1860-1900
As everyone else is putting theirs up... roll on Tuesday #SHSConf2025
(I don't use images much in papers on suicide, for obvious reasons)
06.07.2025 13:47 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Open Thanatology Resources
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Looking for recordings from our past events? We have quite a few in our Open Thanatology Resources page on ORDO: ordo.open.ac.uk/projects/Ope...
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03.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A blue background featuring the OU logo and text that reads: 'Research Appreciation Day. Explore the Open Access repository of research outputs from The Open University's research community. Discover research on ORO oro.open.ac.uk'.
Tomorrow is #ResearchAppreciationDay! Celebrate OU research with Open Research Online (ORO) - our Open Access repository making knowledge free and accessible to all.
💡 OU researchers: don’t forget to deposit your work!
🔎 Explore: oro.open.ac.uk
#OpenAccess #ORO
04.07.2025 10:23 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Open Thanatology Resources
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Looking for recordings from our past events? We have quite a few in our Open Thanatology Resources page on ORDO: ordo.open.ac.uk/projects/Ope...
#ThanatologyThursday
03.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Resources and recordings now available for our recent event on advance care planning. You can find them in the Open Thanatology Resources repository doi.org/10.21954/ou....
01.07.2025 12:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Thanks to all who joined us yesterday for our annual conference. You can find out more about our events and access recordings via our mailing list - Open Thanatoloyg News. Subscribe here: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
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26.06.2025 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Microsoft Forms
If you've attended our event today on advance care planning, we'd appreciate it if you take a few minutes to fill in our short survey. Responses help us plan and promote future events! forms.office.com/e/LiBngGnDsu
25.06.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We're looking forward to the event we are co-hosting tomorrow about advance care planning. Those who registered via Eventbrite should have received their joining link. A recording will be shared after the event.
24.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Looking forward to our event tomorrow - Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
24.06.2025 10:53 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
Last few days to register for our co-hosted event on advance care planning. Free and online! Recording will be in our Open Thanatology ORDO repository after the event. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/caught-bet... #ThanatologyThursday
19.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There are a few part-time doctorates linked with Open Thanatology, often juggling study/research alongside other careers, jobs, caring roles, civic roles, etc.
18.06.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
Just over two weeks away - our annual conference! Online & free. This year, the topic is advance care planning. Fantastic speakers lined up, co-hosts from UCL, and the full programme is now on the registration page www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/caught-bet... #eolc #acp #hospice #palliative #EndOfLifeCare
10.06.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Sociologist of education with an interest in creative methods. Interested in widening access to HE, masculinities and neurodiversity.
Sociologist and activist. Main interests: mortality, death and its aftermath; climate and ecological emergency; social justice at home (UK) and internationally; ‘decolonising’; immunocompromised. Mother and grandmother, love walking in the Chilterns.
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Assistant Prof. of Cognitive Linguistics at Coventry University, interested in how we understand and talk about death, grief and bereavement.
Associate Head of School at The Open University. Interested in all things death-related, sociological, cats and wine.
Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser
TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
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Researches death, palliative and end of life care. Co-editor for Death and Culture book series. Co-chair of Open Thanatology
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