Research & Scholarship

Aim

The Bristol Centre for Grief Research and Engagement brings together researchers from across the University of Bristol. It aims to produce timely and innovative research, in collaboration with grieving people, charities, professionals, and the wider community.

Leadership

The Centre is co-directed by Prof Lucy Selman (Professor of Palliative and End of Life Care, Bristol Medical School) and Dr Lesel Dawson (Associate Professor in Literature and Culture). It brings together programmes of research, scholarship and civic engagement at the University.

Focus

Our projects include research on:

  • equity, widening access and underserved communities; 
  • children and young people; disenfranchised grief; 
  • the therapeutic role of creativity in grief; 
  • community-based/public health approaches to bereavement support (including the role of creativity, culture and community assets in ‘grief literacy’ and widening access to support); and 
  • co-produced/community-led research (including building research capacity in communities). 

You can find out more about our Members’ research via their webpages.

A community meeting to map assets and gaps during the Weston-super-Mare Community Network for Health Inequities project

Current and recent projects