Dr Naomi Richards

  • Senior Lecturer (School of Social & Environmental Sustainability)
  • Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

Biography

Dr Naomi Richards is Director of the End of Life Studies Group at the University of Glasgow. She is a Senior Lecturer in Social Science and is a social anthropologist by training. She specialises in dying and death, ageing and old age, and visual and ethnographic methods.

Dr Richards has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in a variety of social science and clinical journals, in addition to 6 book chapters. Over the last decade she has been funded to undertake empirical and theoretical investigations into: visual representations of ageing/older women; the UK’s assisted dying debate; the phenomenon of old age rational suicide; the relationship between assisted dying and palliative care internationally; and the international Death Café movement.

Between 2019-23, she led the Dying in the Margins study - a qualitative visual methods study which aimed to uncover the reasons for unequal access to home dying for people experiencing poverty and deprivation. The project led to the exhibition The Cost of Dying which has been shown in multiple venues in Glasgow (2023), at the Scottish Parliament (2023), and at Cambridge University’s Intellectual Forum (2024). Naomi continues to work on experiences of financial hardship at end of life, specifically in rural Scotland, through the Marie Curie-funded Unreached study (2024-25).

Naomi co-leads the DeathWrites research network with Dr Elizabeth Reeder in Creative Writing and former PhD student Dr Amy Shea. The network, funded by the RSE and the University of Glasgow, supports 30 writers all based in Scotland and working across different genres, to write and publish powerful, accessible work on the subject of dying, death, grief and loss. Our first DeathWrites newspaper was produced  to celebrate our public symposium in June 2024. 

Naomi teaches multiple courses on the University of Glasgow’s End of Life Studies Programme (PGCert/PGDip/MSc) and pioneered a partnership with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh to produce a unique microcredential on End of Life Challenges and Palliative Care, introducing social science theories and ways of thinking to doctors around the world.

 

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Research interests

  • Assisted dying
  • Cultural attitudes to death and dying
  • Dementia and end of life decision-making
  • Ethnographic methods
  • Equity in end of life care
  • Socio-economic deprivation and end of life experiences
  • Testimony, witnessing and narrative at the end of life
  • Visual methods
  • Visual representations of older people
  • Visual representations of death and dying

Publications

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2025

Quinn, S. and Richards, N. (2025) Dying in the margins: a longitudinal visual methods study to uncover the reasons for unequal access to home dying for people experiencing financial hardship and deprivation in Scotland, UK – a case study. In: Clark, D. and Samuels, A. (eds.) Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Richards, N. (2024) Dying is more painful when society won’t listen – stories of financial hardship that show how end-of-life care needs to change. Conversation, 1 Nov.

Bradshaw, A., Richards, N. , Hussain, J. A. and Davies, J. M. (2024) We need to talk about social class: Why theories of social class matter for understanding inequities in palliative and end-of-life care. Palliative Medicine, (doi: 10.1177/02692163241296478) (Early Online Publication)

Quinn, S. and Richards, N. (2024) The cost of dying exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life. Medical Humanities, (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012950) (Early Online Publication)

Shea, A. et al. (2024) DeathWrites. Other. DeathWrites. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.325834).

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Carduff, E. and Gott, M. (2024) Dying in the margins: Experiences of dying at home for people living with financial hardship and deprivation. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 5, 100414. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100414)

Quinn, S. , Ferguson, L., Read, D. and Richards, N. (2024) “The Great Escape”: how an incident of elopement gave rise to trauma informed palliative care for a patient experiencing multiple disadvantage. BMC Palliative Care, 23(1), 61. (doi: 10.1186/s12904-024-01374-x) (PMID:38419002) (PMCID:PMC10900545)

2023

Richards, N. and Quinn, S. (2023) Money Matters at the End of Life: Having Open Conversations About Financial Hardship at the End of Life. Other. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.331620).

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Mitchell, M., Carduff, E. and Gott, M. (2023) The viability and appropriateness of using visual methods in end of life research to foreground the experiences of people affected by financial hardship and deprivation. Palliative Medicine, 37(4), pp. 627-637. (doi: 10.1177/02692163221146590) (PMID:36609208)

Quinn, S. , Richards, N. and Gott, M. (2023) Dying at home for people experiencing financial hardship and deprivation: how health and social care professionals recognise and reflect on patients’ circumstances. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 17, p. 26323524231164162. (doi: 10.1177/26323524231164162) (PMID:37025502) (PMCID:PMC10071150)

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Gott, M., Carduff, E., Mitchell, M. and Dooley, O. (2023) The Cost of Dying. [Exhibitions]

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Carduff, E., Mitchell, M. and Gott, M. (2023) Dying in the Margins Exhibition Postcards Full Set. [Artefact]

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Gott, M., Carduff, E., Mitchell, M. and Dooley, O. (2023) Dying in the Margins: The Cost of Dying Exhibition Guide. [Exhibitions]

2022

Hanssen Koksvik, G., Richards, N. , Gerson, S. M., Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2022) Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: the interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying. Health, 26(4), pp. 512-531. (doi: 10.1177/1363459320976746) (PMID:33307828) (PMCID:PMC9163770)

Richards, N. (2022) The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: lessons from the poverty literature. Sociology Compass, 16(5), e12969. (doi: 10.1111/soc4.12969)

Richards, N. and Krawczyk, M. (2022) Classic anthropological theories to help understand caregiving and dying during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anthropology Now, 14(1-2), pp. 102-111. (doi: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2119753)

2021

Koksvik, G. H. and Richards, N. (2021) Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’. Mortality, (doi: 10.1080/13576275.2021.1918655) (Early Online Publication)

Gerson, S. M., Koksvik, G. H., Richards, N. , Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2021) Assisted dying and palliative care in three jurisdictions: Flanders, Oregon, and Quebec. Annals of Palliative Medicine, 10(3), pp. 3528-3539. (doi: 10.21037/apm-20-632) (PMID:33302637)

Richards, N. and Krawczyk, M. (2021) What is the cultural value of dying in an era of assisted dying? Medical Humanities, 47(1), pp. 61-67. (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011621) (PMID:31350304)

Rowley, J. and Richards, N. (2021) Can dying at home during COVID-19 still be an indicator of 'quality of death'? Discussion Paper. Policy Scotland, Glasgow.

Krawczyk, M. and Richards, N. (2021) A critical rejoinder to "Life’s end: Ethnographic Perspectives". Death Studies, 45(5), pp. 405-412. (doi: 10.1080/07481187.2019.1639903)

Rowley, J., Richards, N. , Carduff, E. and Gott, M. (2021) The impact of poverty and deprivation at the end of life: a critical review. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 15, p. 26323524211033873. (doi: 10.1177/26323524211033873)

2020

Richards, N. , Koksvik, G. H., Gerson, S. M. and Clark, D. (2020) The global spread of death café: a cultural intervention relevant to policy? Social Policy and Society, 19(4), pp. 553-572. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746420000081)

Gerson, S. M., Koksvik, G., Richards, N. , Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2020) The relationship of palliative care with assisted dying where assisted dying is lawful: A systematic scoping review of the literature. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 59(6), 1287-1303.e1. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.12.361) (PMID:31881289)

Richards, N. and Rowley, J. (2020) Structural inequalities and dying at home during COVID-19. Discussion Paper. Policy Scotland, Glasgow.

2018

Krawczyk, M. and Richards, N. (2018) The relevance of ‘total pain’ in palliative care practice and policy. European Journal of Palliative Care, 25(3), pp. 128-130.

Zaman, S., Whitelaw, A. , Richards, N. , Inbadas, H. and Clark, D. (2018) A moment for compassion: emerging rhetorics in end-of-life care. Medical Humanities, 44(2), pp. 140-143. (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011329) (PMID:29440385) (PMCID:PMC6031266)

Richards, N. (2018) What does a good death look like when you’re really old and ready to go? Conversation, 25 May.

Richards, N. (2018) Ageing and dying are a continuum. Discover Society, 53(6 Feb),

2017

Richards, N. (2017) Old age rational suicide. Sociology Compass, 11(3), e12456. (doi: 10.1111/soc4.12456)

Clark, D. , Inbadas, H. , Colburn, B. , Forrest, C. , Richards, N. , Whitelaw, S. and Zaman, S. (2017) Interventions at the end of life – a taxonomy for ‘overlapping consensus’. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 7. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.10722.1) (PMID:28261674) (PMCID:PMC5336190)

Richards, N. (2017) Assisted suicide as a remedy for suffering? The end-of-life preferences of British "suicide tourists". Medical Anthropology, 36(4), pp. 348-362. (doi: 10.1080/01459740.2016.1255610) (PMID:27845576)

2016

Richards, N. (2016) Euthanasia and policy: choosing when to die. In: Woodthorpe, K. and Foster, L. (eds.) Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 53-70. ISBN 9781137484895 (doi: 10.1057/9781137484901_4)

2015

Richards, N. (2015) Dying to go to court: demanding a legal remedy to end-of-life uncertainty. In: Kelly, T., Harper, I. and Khanna, A. (eds.) The Clinic and the Court: Law, Medicine and Anthropology. Series: Cambridge studies in law and society. Cambridge University Press: New York. ISBN 9781107076242

Tolson, D., Watchman, K., Richards, N. , Brown, M., Jackson, G., Dalrymple, A. and Henderson, J. (2015) Enhanced sensory day care: developing a new model of day care for people in the advanced stage of dementia: a pilot study. Project Report. Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice, Hamilton.

2014

Richards, N. (2014) The death of the right-to-die campaigners. Anthropology Today, 30(3), pp. 14-17. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12110)

Richards, N. M. , Gardiner, C., Ingleton, C. and Gott, M. (2014) How do patients respond to end-of-life status? Nursing Times, 110(11), pp. 21-23.

2013

Richards, N. , Ingleton, C., Gardiner, C. and Gott, M. (2013) Awareness contexts revisited: indeterminacy in initiating discussions at the end-of-life. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69(12), pp. 2654-2664. (doi: 10.1111/jan.12151) (PMID:23600793)

Gardiner, C., Gott, M., Ingleton, C. and Richards, N. (2013) Palliative care for frail older people: a cross-sectional survey of patients at two hospitals in England. Progress in Palliative Care, 21(5), pp. 272-277. (doi: 10.1179/1743291X12Y.0000000043)

Gott, M. et al. (2013) Transitions to palliative care for older people in acute hospitals: a mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 1(11), pp. 1-138. (doi: 10.3310/hsdr01110)

Richards, N. and Rotter, R. (2013) Desperately seeking certainty? The case of asylum applicants and people planning an assisted suicide in Switzerland. Sociological Research Online, 18(4), (doi: 10.5153/sro.3234)

Gott, M., Frey, R., Robinson, J., Boyd, M., O'Callaghan, A., Richards, N. and Snow, B. (2013) The nature of, and reasons for, 'inappropriate' hospitalisations among patients with palliative care needs: a qualitative exploration of the views of generalist palliative care providers. Palliative Medicine, 27(8), pp. 747-756. (doi: 10.1177/0269216312469263) (PMID:23295813)

Ingleton, C., Gardiner, C., Seymour, J.E., Richards, N. and Gott, M. (2013) Exploring education and training needs among the palliative care workforce. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 3(2), pp. 207-212. (doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000233) (PMID:24644570)

Richards, N. (2013) Rosetta life: using film to create ‘bearable fictions’ of people’s experiences of life-limiting illness. In: Aaron, M. (ed.) Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, pp. 190-205. ISBN 9781443849265

2012

Ward, S., Gott, M., Gardiner, C., Cobb, M., Richards, N. and Ingleton, C. (2012) Economic analysis of potentially avoidable hospital admissions in patients with palliative care needs. Progress in Palliative Care, 20(3), pp. 147-153. (doi: 10.1179/1743291X12Y.0000000018)

Richards, N. , Warren, L. and Gott, M. (2012) The challenge of creating ‘alternative’ images of ageing: lessons from a project with older women. Journal of Aging Studies, 26(1), pp. 65-78. (doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2011.08.001)

Richards, N. (2012) The fight-to-die: older people and death activism. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 7(1), pp. 7-32. (doi: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.11153)

Warren, L., Gott, M., Hogan, S. and Richards, N. (2012) Representing Self-Representing Ageing: Look at Me! Images of Women and Ageing. Project Report. New Dynamics of Ageing, Sheffield.

Warren, L. and Richards, N. (2012) 'I don’t see many images of myself coming back at myself': representations of women and ageing. In: Ylänne, V. (ed.) Representing Ageing: Images and Identities. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, pp. 149-169. ISBN 9780230272590

2011

Richards, N. (2011) Using Participatory Visual Methods. Other. University of Manchester.

Richards, N. (2011) Promoting the self through the arts: the transformation of private testimony into public witnessing. In: Conway, S. (ed.) Governing Death and Loss. Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 45-53. ISBN 9780199586172

2009

Richards, N. (2009) Second Consultation on Scotland’s Climate Change Adaptation Framework: Analysis of Responses. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

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Number of items: 53.

Articles

Richards, N. (2024) Dying is more painful when society won’t listen – stories of financial hardship that show how end-of-life care needs to change. Conversation, 1 Nov.

Bradshaw, A., Richards, N. , Hussain, J. A. and Davies, J. M. (2024) We need to talk about social class: Why theories of social class matter for understanding inequities in palliative and end-of-life care. Palliative Medicine, (doi: 10.1177/02692163241296478) (Early Online Publication)

Quinn, S. and Richards, N. (2024) The cost of dying exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life. Medical Humanities, (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012950) (Early Online Publication)

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Carduff, E. and Gott, M. (2024) Dying in the margins: Experiences of dying at home for people living with financial hardship and deprivation. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 5, 100414. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100414)

Quinn, S. , Ferguson, L., Read, D. and Richards, N. (2024) “The Great Escape”: how an incident of elopement gave rise to trauma informed palliative care for a patient experiencing multiple disadvantage. BMC Palliative Care, 23(1), 61. (doi: 10.1186/s12904-024-01374-x) (PMID:38419002) (PMCID:PMC10900545)

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Mitchell, M., Carduff, E. and Gott, M. (2023) The viability and appropriateness of using visual methods in end of life research to foreground the experiences of people affected by financial hardship and deprivation. Palliative Medicine, 37(4), pp. 627-637. (doi: 10.1177/02692163221146590) (PMID:36609208)

Quinn, S. , Richards, N. and Gott, M. (2023) Dying at home for people experiencing financial hardship and deprivation: how health and social care professionals recognise and reflect on patients’ circumstances. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 17, p. 26323524231164162. (doi: 10.1177/26323524231164162) (PMID:37025502) (PMCID:PMC10071150)

Hanssen Koksvik, G., Richards, N. , Gerson, S. M., Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2022) Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: the interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying. Health, 26(4), pp. 512-531. (doi: 10.1177/1363459320976746) (PMID:33307828) (PMCID:PMC9163770)

Richards, N. (2022) The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: lessons from the poverty literature. Sociology Compass, 16(5), e12969. (doi: 10.1111/soc4.12969)

Richards, N. and Krawczyk, M. (2022) Classic anthropological theories to help understand caregiving and dying during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anthropology Now, 14(1-2), pp. 102-111. (doi: 10.1080/19428200.2022.2119753)

Koksvik, G. H. and Richards, N. (2021) Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’. Mortality, (doi: 10.1080/13576275.2021.1918655) (Early Online Publication)

Gerson, S. M., Koksvik, G. H., Richards, N. , Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2021) Assisted dying and palliative care in three jurisdictions: Flanders, Oregon, and Quebec. Annals of Palliative Medicine, 10(3), pp. 3528-3539. (doi: 10.21037/apm-20-632) (PMID:33302637)

Richards, N. and Krawczyk, M. (2021) What is the cultural value of dying in an era of assisted dying? Medical Humanities, 47(1), pp. 61-67. (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011621) (PMID:31350304)

Krawczyk, M. and Richards, N. (2021) A critical rejoinder to "Life’s end: Ethnographic Perspectives". Death Studies, 45(5), pp. 405-412. (doi: 10.1080/07481187.2019.1639903)

Rowley, J., Richards, N. , Carduff, E. and Gott, M. (2021) The impact of poverty and deprivation at the end of life: a critical review. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 15, p. 26323524211033873. (doi: 10.1177/26323524211033873)

Richards, N. , Koksvik, G. H., Gerson, S. M. and Clark, D. (2020) The global spread of death café: a cultural intervention relevant to policy? Social Policy and Society, 19(4), pp. 553-572. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746420000081)

Gerson, S. M., Koksvik, G., Richards, N. , Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2020) The relationship of palliative care with assisted dying where assisted dying is lawful: A systematic scoping review of the literature. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 59(6), 1287-1303.e1. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.12.361) (PMID:31881289)

Krawczyk, M. and Richards, N. (2018) The relevance of ‘total pain’ in palliative care practice and policy. European Journal of Palliative Care, 25(3), pp. 128-130.

Zaman, S., Whitelaw, A. , Richards, N. , Inbadas, H. and Clark, D. (2018) A moment for compassion: emerging rhetorics in end-of-life care. Medical Humanities, 44(2), pp. 140-143. (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011329) (PMID:29440385) (PMCID:PMC6031266)

Richards, N. (2018) What does a good death look like when you’re really old and ready to go? Conversation, 25 May.

Richards, N. (2018) Ageing and dying are a continuum. Discover Society, 53(6 Feb),

Richards, N. (2017) Old age rational suicide. Sociology Compass, 11(3), e12456. (doi: 10.1111/soc4.12456)

Clark, D. , Inbadas, H. , Colburn, B. , Forrest, C. , Richards, N. , Whitelaw, S. and Zaman, S. (2017) Interventions at the end of life – a taxonomy for ‘overlapping consensus’. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 7. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.10722.1) (PMID:28261674) (PMCID:PMC5336190)

Richards, N. (2017) Assisted suicide as a remedy for suffering? The end-of-life preferences of British "suicide tourists". Medical Anthropology, 36(4), pp. 348-362. (doi: 10.1080/01459740.2016.1255610) (PMID:27845576)

Richards, N. (2014) The death of the right-to-die campaigners. Anthropology Today, 30(3), pp. 14-17. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12110)

Richards, N. M. , Gardiner, C., Ingleton, C. and Gott, M. (2014) How do patients respond to end-of-life status? Nursing Times, 110(11), pp. 21-23.

Richards, N. , Ingleton, C., Gardiner, C. and Gott, M. (2013) Awareness contexts revisited: indeterminacy in initiating discussions at the end-of-life. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69(12), pp. 2654-2664. (doi: 10.1111/jan.12151) (PMID:23600793)

Gardiner, C., Gott, M., Ingleton, C. and Richards, N. (2013) Palliative care for frail older people: a cross-sectional survey of patients at two hospitals in England. Progress in Palliative Care, 21(5), pp. 272-277. (doi: 10.1179/1743291X12Y.0000000043)

Gott, M. et al. (2013) Transitions to palliative care for older people in acute hospitals: a mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 1(11), pp. 1-138. (doi: 10.3310/hsdr01110)

Richards, N. and Rotter, R. (2013) Desperately seeking certainty? The case of asylum applicants and people planning an assisted suicide in Switzerland. Sociological Research Online, 18(4), (doi: 10.5153/sro.3234)

Gott, M., Frey, R., Robinson, J., Boyd, M., O'Callaghan, A., Richards, N. and Snow, B. (2013) The nature of, and reasons for, 'inappropriate' hospitalisations among patients with palliative care needs: a qualitative exploration of the views of generalist palliative care providers. Palliative Medicine, 27(8), pp. 747-756. (doi: 10.1177/0269216312469263) (PMID:23295813)

Ingleton, C., Gardiner, C., Seymour, J.E., Richards, N. and Gott, M. (2013) Exploring education and training needs among the palliative care workforce. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 3(2), pp. 207-212. (doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000233) (PMID:24644570)

Ward, S., Gott, M., Gardiner, C., Cobb, M., Richards, N. and Ingleton, C. (2012) Economic analysis of potentially avoidable hospital admissions in patients with palliative care needs. Progress in Palliative Care, 20(3), pp. 147-153. (doi: 10.1179/1743291X12Y.0000000018)

Richards, N. , Warren, L. and Gott, M. (2012) The challenge of creating ‘alternative’ images of ageing: lessons from a project with older women. Journal of Aging Studies, 26(1), pp. 65-78. (doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2011.08.001)

Richards, N. (2012) The fight-to-die: older people and death activism. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 7(1), pp. 7-32. (doi: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.11153)

Book Sections

Quinn, S. and Richards, N. (2025) Dying in the margins: a longitudinal visual methods study to uncover the reasons for unequal access to home dying for people experiencing financial hardship and deprivation in Scotland, UK – a case study. In: Clark, D. and Samuels, A. (eds.) Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

Richards, N. (2016) Euthanasia and policy: choosing when to die. In: Woodthorpe, K. and Foster, L. (eds.) Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 53-70. ISBN 9781137484895 (doi: 10.1057/9781137484901_4)

Richards, N. (2015) Dying to go to court: demanding a legal remedy to end-of-life uncertainty. In: Kelly, T., Harper, I. and Khanna, A. (eds.) The Clinic and the Court: Law, Medicine and Anthropology. Series: Cambridge studies in law and society. Cambridge University Press: New York. ISBN 9781107076242

Richards, N. (2013) Rosetta life: using film to create ‘bearable fictions’ of people’s experiences of life-limiting illness. In: Aaron, M. (ed.) Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, pp. 190-205. ISBN 9781443849265

Warren, L. and Richards, N. (2012) 'I don’t see many images of myself coming back at myself': representations of women and ageing. In: Ylänne, V. (ed.) Representing Ageing: Images and Identities. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, pp. 149-169. ISBN 9780230272590

Richards, N. (2011) Promoting the self through the arts: the transformation of private testimony into public witnessing. In: Conway, S. (ed.) Governing Death and Loss. Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 45-53. ISBN 9780199586172

Research Reports or Papers

Shea, A. et al. (2024) DeathWrites. Other. DeathWrites. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.325834).

Richards, N. and Quinn, S. (2023) Money Matters at the End of Life: Having Open Conversations About Financial Hardship at the End of Life. Other. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.331620).

Rowley, J. and Richards, N. (2021) Can dying at home during COVID-19 still be an indicator of 'quality of death'? Discussion Paper. Policy Scotland, Glasgow.

Richards, N. and Rowley, J. (2020) Structural inequalities and dying at home during COVID-19. Discussion Paper. Policy Scotland, Glasgow.

Tolson, D., Watchman, K., Richards, N. , Brown, M., Jackson, G., Dalrymple, A. and Henderson, J. (2015) Enhanced sensory day care: developing a new model of day care for people in the advanced stage of dementia: a pilot study. Project Report. Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice, Hamilton.

Warren, L., Gott, M., Hogan, S. and Richards, N. (2012) Representing Self-Representing Ageing: Look at Me! Images of Women and Ageing. Project Report. New Dynamics of Ageing, Sheffield.

Richards, N. (2011) Using Participatory Visual Methods. Other. University of Manchester.

Richards, N. (2009) Second Consultation on Scotland’s Climate Change Adaptation Framework: Analysis of Responses. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Artefact

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Carduff, E., Mitchell, M. and Gott, M. (2023) Dying in the Margins Exhibition Postcards Full Set. [Artefact]

Exhibitions

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Gott, M., Carduff, E., Mitchell, M. and Dooley, O. (2023) The Cost of Dying. [Exhibitions]

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Gott, M., Carduff, E., Mitchell, M. and Dooley, O. (2023) Dying in the Margins: The Cost of Dying Exhibition Guide. [Exhibitions]

Key Findings

Richards, N. , Quinn, S. , Carduff, E. and Gott, M. Dying in the Margins Digital Stories Accompanying Toolkits Complete Collection. [Key Findings]

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Grants

Royal Society of Edinburgh, Research Network Grant: COVID-19 as Catalyst for Writing and Discussing Death, Dying and Grief through Objects, Diaries and Collective Archives (2022-2024)

ESRC Large Grant: Dying in the Margins: Uncovering the Reasons for Unequal Access to Home Dying for the Socio-Economically Deprived (2019-2023)( ES/S014373/1)

ESRC-Impact Acceleration Award: Exploring the language of poverty and inequality at the end of life, with a frontline engagement network (2021-2022)

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2012-14)

ESRC (3+1) PhD Scholarship (Quota Award)

Supervision

I welcome enquiries about supervision relating to my research interests in:

  • anthropology of dying, death, grief, and loss
  • assisted dying
  • community models of end of life care
  • socio-economic inequities at the end of life
  • dying in old age; the 'oldest old'
  • old age rational suicide
  • concepts of suffering and 'total pain' at the end of life
  • visual or literary representations of ageing or dying
  • participatory research methods
  • visual research methods

I am currently supervising 3 PhD studies:

  • Foulkes, Carrie (DFA in Creative Writing)
    • Renunciation Exercises: An interdisciplinary research project exploring narratives of illness and bereavement
  • Walden, Ian (PhD in Design, University of Falmouth)
    • A good death: Creating discursivity around old age rational suicide through design
  • Willis, Hollie (PhD in English Literature)
    • Representations of Funerary Rites in Post-1990 Fantasy Literature
  • Completed Supervision

Dr Julie Lang: Representing death: how contemporary memoirists depict dying, death, suicide and bereavement. 

Dr Amy Shea: Not all deaths are created equal: essays on the intersection of death, homelessness, and inequality

Dr Solveiga Zibaite: Talking about talking about death: an ethnographically informed study of Death Cafés in the UK using neo-tribal theory.

Teaching

I convene three courses on the End of Life Studies Programme:

I also convene the following microcredential joint with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh which runs twice a year in September and April:

Additional information

 

  • I review grant applications for various funding bodies: Economic and Social Research Council; European Research Council; National Science Foundation (USA); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Israel Science Foundation.
  • I am a member of the ESRC Peer Review College
  • I am on the Editorial Board for journal Palliative Medicine

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