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Taking Life Lessons to Taiwan

02/03/2016

Dr. Judith Wester, founder of CEDAR Education, and expert in death education, has been invited to work with PhD students studying ‘Everyday Life’ at the College of Indigenous Studies at the National Dong Hwa University in Haulien, Taiwan. She will be introducing them to the unique Life Lessons programme she developed to teach young people how to talk about death, dying and loss in healthy and compassionate ways. The Life Lessons programme was piloted in the Shrewsbury, Shropshire area in…

Dr Wester to Speak at SFE

21/01/2016

Dr Wester is to speak at the SFE (Solicitors for the Elderly) Regional Group Conference: 21 January 2016 Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Raod, Shrewsbury SY3 8XQ Time: 2:00-5:00pm The conference is on: Death – The Final Taboo? Dr Wester will be speaking on why talking about death is important and how developing a better understanding of death can affect the legacy you leave your loved ones. Other speakers include the Senior Coroner for Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, John Ellery…

The Social Construction of Death

03/12/2015

The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Edited by Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier (2014) Palgrave Macmillian Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the…

The Graveyard Book Review

01/12/2015

The novel is particularly poignant in its portrayal of the often isolating feeling of loss, alongside the crucial role that communities, friends and family can play in overcoming this.

Lanyon Bowdler Supports LEGACY

04/08/2015

Start the conversation…its the best legacy you can leave those you love most.

Katy’s Blog #11 – CEDAR CIC delivers research findings at Centre for Death & Society Conference 2015

26/06/2015

Overall the conference was a great display of how the topic of death is an ever increasing subject of study, debate and research worldwide for professionals in numerous fields of study, whether it be medicine, sociology, anthropology, or psychology, and will continue to be a matter which undoubtedly sees professionals agreeing that death should be a topic which needs to be talked about.

Dr Wester meets Professor Tony Walter

12/06/2015

Dr Wester meets Professor Tony Walter

Death & Its Futures

03/06/2015

Dr Wester & Mrs Walker to present research paper at International Conference 6th June 2015

Katy’s Blog #10: Further Life Lessons for the Youth Health Champions

28/04/2015

The CEDAR CIC held another of its now popular ‘Life Lessons’ workshop, this time at the Grange Youth Centre, Shrewsbury. The participants were from the Young Health Champions NHS programme. There were 6 young participants from the programme and a volunteer who attended a previous session and wanted to get more involved in helping out. This Life Lessons workshop had the youngest participants to date, ranging from age 10 up to 24. The Life Lessons this time round involved…

CEDAR Supports the Peter Day Exhibition

18/03/2015

Pictures of My Father – 21st March to 4th April Surface Gallery, 16 Southwell Road, Nottingham NG1 1DL CEDAR CIC is very pleased to be supporting this wonderful exhibition at the Surface Gallery in Nottingham. This exhibition came about as a means to explore personal grief and bereavement. Dr Day, a professional photographer and lecturer, chose his lens to help him explore what loss is, what it is not, and what is imagined in ‘nothingness’. Well worth seeing. Here is…