New Insights into scottish deathways:

a digital conference

Online event running from 

24th - 25th April 2025

#DeathInScotland2025

Call for Abstracts - Deadline for Abstracts (papers and short presentations) 12 January 2025

Registration - earlybird registration deadline, 1st February 2025

This multi-disciplinary conference aims to connect academics and practitioners to share insights and ideas across a range of topics, periods and perspectives relating to death and Scotland. It is intended to facilitate learning from recent and current research and to stimulate further research, including by supporting the development of new connections and networks between people working in different academic disciplines and areas of policy and practice.

This two-day online conference centres primarily around the presentation and discussion of (a) papers reporting research insights and (b) summaries (with or without accompanying posters) of work in progress or areas of research interest. The programme includes two invited presentations from:

Professor Michael Brown, Chair in Irish, Scottish & Enlightenment History, University of Aberdeen, on ‘Life after death in Scotland: eighteenth century folk stories and the rise of the gothic’

Dr Naomi Richards, Director of the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, University of Glasgow

There will also be opportunities to discuss ideas about research need and scope for collaborative research development.