Online session held on Microsoft Teams

Abstract

Death is a universal human experience affecting countless young people every day, including 1 in 29 bereaved of a parent before the age of 16. This seminar presents a British Educational Research Association funded research project – Grief Matters – highlighting the benefits of bereavement awareness sessions as part of an initial teacher training programme. The seminar includes an interview with primary school teacher Emma Marfleet, who has lived experience of end-of-life hospice care as a widow and mother of three young boys.

About the Speaker

Professor Anna Lise Gordon is co-director of the Centre for Wellbeing in Education at St Mary’s University. As a former teacher and teacher educator, she is committed to supporting schools in their work with bereaved children and young people.

Emma Marfleet is the founder of The Marfleet Foundation: https://www.themarfleetfoundation.org

About the Seminar Series 

The Cicely Saunders Institute Open Seminar Series events are free to attend.

The series aim is to optimise opportunities for local, national and international networking within palliative care and rehabilitation. We facilitate seminars to assist in improving practice, education and policy, and the integration of research and clinical endeavours.