New Insights into scottish deathways:

a digital conference

Online event running from 

24th - 25th April 2025

#DeathInScotland2025

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 'Narrating the Aberdeen Poltergeist of 1920'.

Dr Naomi Richards, Director of the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, University of Glasgow, on 'Assisted dying: a new dying aesthetic'.

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