Exploring & Educating in Morbid Spaces with Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce
An Archaeodeath Interview with Ruth Penfold-Mounce exploring heritage and pedagogic dimensions to death and the dead.
Ruth is a Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of York. Her background in Sociology is united with an interest in crime and deviance, death studies and popular culture and celebrity as well as pedagogy. Ruth was one of the three founders of Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) at York. This network public engagement and academic events as well as being home to the Death and Culture Book Series (Bristol University Press). She is regularly asked to speak at academic events and does much public engagement work particularly through the annual York Dead Good Festival and York Festival of Ideas. Ruth has filmed with the BBC’s Hairy Bikers, and BBC4 as well as appearing in documentaries in Canada and Australia and has recorded for a range of radio programmes including for Radio 1 and Radio 4. Follow her on Twitter/X: @deathandculture
• Staff Profile: https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/peop...
• Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/rese...
• The Death and Culture Walk https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/rese...
• York Crime Walk https://www.yorkcrimewalk.com/