Dr Jenny Birchall
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
Bristol Medical School
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Good Grief: Creating a Sustainable Social Enterprise
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
While grief is not a medical condition, it is crucial that people feel supported in bereavement; yet, sadly this is often not the case. Support services are over-stretched and private…Managing organisational unit
Department of EnglishDates
01/03/2025 to 31/08/2025
Publications
Recent publications
24/11/2025Shifting to online and telephone bereavement support provision during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods study of bereavement service provider perspectives and lessons learnt for current practice
Palliative Medicine
Grandmother kinship carers: negotiating conflicts in identity, blame, loss and love in the context of ‘mother blame’
Journal of Family Studies
Fair Shares? Sorting out money and property on divorce: Executive summary
Fair Shares? Sorting out money and property on divorce: Briefing Paper
Fair Shares? Sorting Out Money and Property on Divorce
Financial Remedies Journal
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