Laura Towers is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Sociology Department. In a project titled ‘Storying the Unspeakable: Narrating the Experiences of Siblings Bereaved by Suicide’, Laura is using a relational approach to consider how siblings bereaved by suicide understand and make sense of their loss over time through narratives of personal experience. She has also recently carried out research in partnership with Hospice UK, looking at people’s experiences at work when caring for someone who is dying. Overall, Laura is keen to explore the social nature of grief, loss and bereavement, emphasising the longevity of these experiences. She was co-convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group between 2017 and 2022. Laura has also co-edited a book titled Death, Dying and Bereavement: New Sociological Perspectives, to be released late 2024, as part of the British Sociological Association’s ‘Sociological Futures’ Series.