I have extensive experience of working with broadcast, digital and print media, grounded in a strong belief that for academic work to have a resonance and use for others that we scholars need to get it ‘out there’. I welcome media enquiries, either to participate directly or provide background information on all topics connected to my areas of interest and expertise.
2020
The Times: We need practical guidance for dealing with serious illness at home
Independent: Coronavirus has made death a fact of life again – we should embrace it
The Conversation: how the power to delay death has allowed neoliberalism to flourish
https://theconversation.com/how-the-power-to-delay-death-has-allowed-inequality-to-flourish-136371
2019
BBC Radio 4: We Need to Talk about Death, ‘I can’t afford a funeral’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000219v
Independent: The rise of ‘pauper’s funerals’ is a disgraceful reminder of Britain’s inequalities
2018
BBC Radio 4: Money Box ‘UK funeral industry investigated for high prices’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001fdd
The Conversation: ‘From Prince Charles and his mother down, why Britain finds it hard to talk about Death’
2017
The Conversation: ‘ The dead and dying have been ignored by politicians for too long’
https://theconversation.com/the-dead-and-dying-have-been-ignored-by-politicians-for-too-long-83616
2014
The Guardian ‘Poorest People cannot afford costs of dying, report claims’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/21/poorest-people-cannot-afford-costs-of-dying
2012
BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed ‘Family funerals; red tape’
Kate Woodthorpe 