Living with Death: Learning from COVID

Our research cluster explores the consequences of death in the time of COVID-19 for mental health and well-being.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world saw unprecedented waves of premature deaths. Infection control restrictions, including those on modes of remembrance, produced consequences for mental health and well-being that are still emerging.

Our multi-disciplinary research COVID cluster seeks to investigate and suggest mitigations for unintended consequences of socially distanced death and recover human experience from the twenty-first century’s first global pandemic.

Approaching COVID with researchers in medicine, the social sciences and humanities, we're learning from historical pandemics and the current pandemic to look to the future and contribute to tackling our post-pandemic global challenges.

Applying resources (including a podcast, peer-reviewed journal articles and publicly facing writings), we aim to support those directly affected by COVID-19 death. We work with Hull City Council, the University of Hull, the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and other partners (including Dove House Hospice and the Association of independent Celebrants).

We contribute to legacies of living with death and learning from COVID-19 for Hull, the region and beyond.