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Personal profile
Overview
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. Across a range of projects, Laura is keen to explore the social nature of grief, loss and bereavement, emphasising the longevity of these experiences.
Laura is also the Training and Capacity Building Lead for the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.
External positions
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bath
1 Oct 2024 → 30 Sept 2027
Areas of expertise
- HM Sociology
- Grief
- Bereavement
- Death
- Loss
- Siblings
- Family
- Relationships
- Identity
- Time
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Beyond Individual Illness: Using Illness Narratives to Explore the Navigation of Care and Work When a Relative Is Dying
Reed, K. & Towers, L., 1 May 2026, In: Sociology of Health & Illness. 48, 4, e70188.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration
Towers, L. & Reed, K., 1 Dec 2025, In: The British Journal of Sociology. 76, 5, p. 1076-1086Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Death, Dying and Bereavement: New Sociological Perspectives
Mallon, S. (Editor) & Towers, L. (Editor), 28 Nov 2024, London: Routledge. 200 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Siblings and the Bereaved Self: Identity (Re)Construction Following the Death of a Brother or Sister
Towers, L., 17 Sept 2024, In: Sociology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘There’s a huge hole left in the middle of the family’: locating family practices within the context of (sibling) bereavement
Towers, L., 26 Feb 2024, In: Families, Relationships and Societies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
- 1 Active
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Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives
Nordqvist, P. (PI), Woodward, S. (PI), Balmer, A. (PI), Fenton, L. (PI), Hannell, B. (PI), Lewis, C. (PI), Hall, S. M. (PI), Heaphy, B. (PI), Heath, S. (PI), Hicks, S. (PI), Holmes, H. (PI), Mancuso, J. (PI), Mathrani Chakraborty, R. (PI), Meckin, R. (PI), Price, D. (PI), Reed, K. (PI), Tinkler, P. (PI), Tomlinson, M. (PI), Towers, L. (PI), Yates, L. (PI), Hodgson, J. (PI), Finch, J. (PI), Mason, J. (PI) & Smart, C. (PI)
1/09/05 → 30/09/50
Project: Research