Dr Naomi Richards

Research Associate

Naomi Richards Transitions to Palliative Care Project
Sykes House
Little Common Lane
Sheffield
S11 9NE
UK

Office:
Tel: +44 (0) 114 262 0174 ext. 31
Fax: +44 (0) 114 262 0292

Biography

I joined the university in 2009 to work on the E.S.R.C funded Representing-Self; Representing-Ageing project (www.representing-ageing.com). My background is in Social Anthropology, and previously I completed my PhD at Edinburgh University on ways in which different groups of people in the UK anticipate dying.

Research Interests

My research interests are: the anthropology of death and dying; the right-to-die debate; end-of-life care and older people; ageing and gender; visual representations of ageing; visual representations of dying.

Teaching Interests

I have taught on the Ageing & Society course in the Department of Sociological Studies.

Current projects

I am currently working as a research associate on the Department of Health funded project: “Transitions to Palliative Care for Older People in Acute Hospitals’.

Key publications

Richards N, Warren L, Gott M. (2012) The challenge of creating ‘alternative’ images of ageing: Lessons from a project with older women. Journal of Aging Studies 26(1): 65-78.

Warren L, Richards N (2012) “I don’t see many images of myself coming back at myself”: Representations of women and ageing. In: V Ylanne (ed) Representing Ageing: Images and Identities. Palgrave Macmillan.

Richards, N (2011) Promoting the self through the arts: the transformation of private testimony into public witnessing. In: S.Conway (ed) Governing Death and Loss: Empowerment, Involvement, and Participation. Oxford University Press.