Senior Lecturer Health Studies
<p>All forms of reproductive loss</p>
<p>I joined the Open University in June 2010 to work on K260,<em>Death and dying.</em>Up until then I had been a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Westminster.</p><p>Since joining the OU I have worked on modules at all levels of the undergraduate programme in Health and Social Care as well as our Masters in Advancing Healthcare Practice. I have been academic adviser on several co-productions (with both the BBC and Channel 4) including the BAFTA-nominated documentary<em>How to Die: Simon's Choice.</em></p><p>I was appointed Assistant Head of the Department of Health and Social Care in November 2015 and, since August 2016 I have been Head of the Health and Social Care Curriculum Area. </p><p>My specific interest in the area of death and dying is pregnancy loss and my ESRC-funded doctoral research, undertaken at the University of Surrey, was a sociological exploration of parental experiences of stillbirth. I am also a member of the Association for the Study of Death and Society and the British Sociological Association.</p><p> </p>
Dr Sam Murphy
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Samantha Murphy
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<p>I joined the Open University in June 2010 to work on K260,<em>Death and dying.</em>Up until then I had been a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Westminster.</p><p>Since joining the OU I have worked on modules at all levels of the undergraduate programme in Health and Social Care as well as our Masters in Advancing Healthcare Practice. I have been academic adviser on several co-productions (with both the BBC and Channel 4) including the BAFTA-nominated documentary<em>How to Die: Simon's Choice.</em></p><p>I was appointed Assistant Head of the Department of Health and Social Care in November 2015 and, since August 2016 I have been Head of the Health and Social Care Curriculum Area. </p><p>My specific interest in the area of death and dying is pregnancy loss and my ESRC-funded doctoral research, undertaken at the University of Surrey, was a sociological exploration of parental experiences of stillbirth. I am also a member of the Association for the Study of Death and Society and the British Sociological Association.</p><p> </p>