NAFD News NAFD Summer School returns to St Chad’s College, Durham University Monday 4th - Wednesday 6th July 2022
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n July 2022, the NAFD will host its second, exclusive three-day residential Summer School at St Chad’s College, Durham University, with the renowned anthropologist and theologian Professor Douglas Davies. Designed to support professional development and inspire blue-sky thinking about the future of the funeral sector, the second NAFD Summer School will build on the themes of ritual, bereavement and the future of funerals, with topics including poetry, grief and remembrance, changes in funeral practice and alternative forms of disposal, including resomation. Professor Douglas Davies trained in Anthropology (Durham and Oxford) and Theology (Durham) and is now Professor in the Study of Religion and Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies, at Durham University and a regular on BBC Radio 4. Professor Davies holds Oxford’s higher doctorate D.Litt., and an honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Uppsala University. He is an elected Fellow of The Academy of Social Sciences, The Learned Society of Wales, and The British Academy. His books include:• The influential Death Ritual and Belief, first published in 1997, with a third edition published in 2017; • Mors Britannica: Lifestyle and Death-Style in Britain Today (2015); • Natural Burial (with Hannah Rumble, 2012); • Emotion, Identity and Religion (2011); • The Theology of Death (2008); and 54 | FuneralTimes
Professor Douglas Davies • The Encyclopaedia of Cremation (with Lewis Mates, 2005). His Brief History of Death (2005) has been translated into numerous languages, including Greek and Japanese. Professor Davies is a regular contributor to discussions on death ritual and belief in the media, considering the topics from religious, theological, health and welfare, public policy, historical and social science perspectives. Get ready to book Places will once again be strictly limited to 30 delegates. This year, the NAFD will be offering residential and non-residential options. Places on the 2022 Summer School are priced at £395 for the seminars and evening meals only and £545 for bed and breakfast, seminars and evening meals. Booking will open soon via the NAFD Education website: nafdeducation.corg.uk.
