The Social Life of Death

该项目旨在调查在快速的社会、经济和政治转型中死亡、垂死和丧亲的经历。在COVID19之后，随着澳大利亚预期的“死亡热潮”的临近，如何促进良好的死亡从未像现在这样不确定，也从未像现在这样紧迫。利用创新方法和社会文化理论，并与家庭和社区合作，该项目旨在产生新的知识，以便更好地提供信息和改进政策，并在生命结束时引发文化复兴。预期的结果包括为对死亡、死亡和丧亲的新的学术理解设定国际基准，并集中社区的声音来应对健康死亡的当代挑战。

This project aims to investigate experiences of death, dying and bereavement amidst rapid social, economic and political transformation. In the wake of COVID19, and as Australia’s anticipated ‘death boom’ approaches, how to foster good deaths has never been more uncertain, nor more urgent. Drawing on innovative methods and socio-cultural theory, and working in partnership with families and communities, this project aims to generate new knowledge to better inform and improve policy and spark cultural renewal around the end of life. Expected outcomes include setting the international benchmark for novel scholarly understandings of death, dying and bereavement, and centring community voices in addressing contemporary challenges to dying well.