Professor Michele Aaron on filmmaking and end of life care, hospice documentary, death and LGBTQIA+ communities, palliative care, film practice, ethics, visual culture and dying

The Death Studies Podcast

What's the episode about?

In this episode, hear Michele Aaron discuss filmmaking and end of life care, hospice documentary, death and LGBTQIA+ communities, palliative care, film practice, ethics and visual culture and dying

Who is Michele?

Michele completed her BA in English Literature at Queen Mary’s (or QMW as it was then) and both my MA, (in Culture and Social Change) and PhD (in contemporary film and fiction) at the University of Southampton.

She joined Warwick in 2017 from the University of Birmingham where she was based from 2004 having previously taught at Brunel University.

In 2016-17, she was the principal investigator on the AHRC funded project ‘Digital Technology and Human Vulnerability: Towards an Ethical Praxis’. In 2019-20.

She was the principal investigator for the follow-on project 'Life:Moving Onwards: Ethical Praxis and the use of film in the International End of Life Community'.

She is the director/curator of Screening Rights Film Festival, the Midlands International Festival of Social Justice film and debate, which launched in 2015.

How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?

To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:

Aaron, M. (2025) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 3 January 2025. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.28131629 What next?

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