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Family sociology, Children's family lives, Children and death, Childhood bereavement, Inter-cultural dialogue, Family Troubles?, Public and private, Relationality, Family meanings, Death in Senegal, Childhood, children and family lives in China
United Kingdom

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Employment (6)

Open University: Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, GB

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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

University of Reading: Reading, Berkshire, GB

2017-05 to present | Visiting Professor / Visiting Fellow
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

The Open University: Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, GB

2015-08 to present | Honorary Associate (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
Employment
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

University of Bath: Bath, Somerset, GB

2024-01-01 to 2027-12-31 | Visiting Professor (Centre for Death and Society)
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Open University: Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, GB

2001-09-15 to 2015-07-31 | Reader in Family Studies (Department of Social Policy and Criminology)
Employment
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Oxford Brookes University: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

1990-09-01 to 2001-09-10 | Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Sociology)
Employment
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Education and qualifications (4)

London South Bank University: London, London, GB

1987-09-01 to 1990-08-31 | PhD in Sociology (Sociology)
Education
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Open University: Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, GB

1984 to 1986 | MSc in Advanced Educational and Social Research Methods (Faculty of Education)
Education
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

University of London: London, London, GB

1973 to 1974 | PGCE Distinctions in Theory and Practice (Stockwell College)
Education
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

University of Reading: Reading, Berkshire, GB

1968 to 1971 | BA (Hons) Sociology First Class (Sociology)
Education
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Professional activities (3)

Bereavement Journal: London, GB

2012 to present | Editorial Board member
Invited position
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Childhood Bereavement Network: London, GB

2019 to 2026 | Steering Group member
Service
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Winston's Wish Childhood Bereavement Charity: Cheltenham, Gloustershie, GB

2017-09 to 2023-09 | Trustee
Invited position
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Funding (4)

Death in the Family in Urban Senegal: Bereavement, Care and Family Relations

2014 to 2016 | Grant
Leverhulme Trust (London, GB)
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Young People, Bereavement and Loss

2002 to 2005 | Grant
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (York, GB)
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Differing Perspectives on the ‘Family’ Lives of Young People aged 16-18; Issues, Strengths and Needs,

1998 to 2000 | Grant
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (York, GB)
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Parenting and Step-parenting after Divorce/Separation: Issues and Negotiations

1996 to 1998 | Grant
Economic and Social Research Council (Swindon, GB)
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Works (50 of 95)

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‘If I break your leg, you won’t ask me to fix it for you’: innovative explorations in ‘decolonising’ UK bereavement services

Mortality
2025-02-07 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Stedmon, Jacqui; Sukhbinder Hamilton; Pusey, Laura D.; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Complex worlds, complex people: Auto-ethnographic conversations on decolonising the aftermath of death

2024 | Book chapter | Author, Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781003376569
Contributors: Sharon Mallon; Laura Towers; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Sukhbinder Hamilton
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives

Sociology
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Jane Ribbens McCarthy; Kate Woodthorpe; Kathryn Almack
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Time-space practices of care after a family death in urban Senegal

Social & Cultural Geography
2022-10-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Sophie Bowlby; Ruth Evans; Jane Ribbens McCarthy; Joséphine Wouango
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Family sociology as a theoretical enterprise? A personal reflection

Families, Relationships and Societies
2022-05-01 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 82725
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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Do we need to decolonise bereavement studies?

Bereavement
2022-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Sukhbinder Hamilton; Berenice Golding; Jane Ribbens McCarthy
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Making Sense of Family Deaths in Urban Senegal: Diversities, Contexts, and Comparisons

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
2020-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Jane Ribbens McCarthy; Ruth Evans; Sophie Bowlby; Joséphine Wouango
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The (cross-cultural) problem of categories: who is ‘child’, what is ‘family’?

2020-09-25 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 73203
Contributors: Frankel, Sam; NcNamee, Sally; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Evans, Ruth
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

“Family Troubles” and “Troubling Families”: Opening Up Fertile Ground

Journal of Family Issues
2019-11-01 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 66692
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Gillies, Val; Hooper, Carol-Ann
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Unpacking ‘family troubles’, care and relationality across time and space

Children's Geographies
2019-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Ruth Evans; Sophie Bowlby; Lucas Gottzén; Jane Ribbens McCarthy
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Diversity challenges from urban West Africa: How Senegalese family deaths illuminate dominant understandings of ‘bereavement’

Bereavement Care
2019-09-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Jane Ribbens McCarthy; Ruth Evans; Sophie Bowlby
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Editorial

Bereavement Care
2019-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Jane Ribbens McCarthy
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Troubling Children’s Families: Who’s Troubled and Why?

Sociological Research Online
2018 | Journal article
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Troubling children's families: who's troubled and why? Approaches to inter-cultural dialogue

Sociological Research Online
2018-03-01 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 52691
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Gillies, Val
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Troubling families: introduction

Sociological Research Online
2018-03-01 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 54244
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Gillies, Val; Hooper, Carol-Ann
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Childhood, children and family lives in China

Marriage and the Family in China
2017 | Book chapter
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Childhood, children and family lives in China

2017-12 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 52690
Contributors: Zang, Xiaowei; Zhao, Lucy Xia; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Phoenix, Ann; Yu, Guo; Xu, Xiaoli
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Interpreting ‘grief’ in Senegal

Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying
2017-03-02 | Journal article
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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Producing emotionally sensed knowledge?

International Journal of Social Research Methodology (early access).
2017-01-11 | Journal article
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The institutionalisation of ‘TongNian’ and ‘childhood’ in China

Children and Society (Early Access)
2016-06-16 | Journal article
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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Responses to Death, Care and Family Relations in Urban Senegal

2016-02 | Other | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 49016
Contributors: Evans, Ruth; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Bowlby, Sophie; Wouango, Joséphine; Kébé, Fatou
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Responses to Death, Care and Family Relations in Urban Senegal

University of Reading
2016-01 | Report
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Embodied relationality and caring after death

Body and Society
2014 | Journal article
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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Family Troubles?

Policy Press
2013 | Edited book
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Troubling normalities and normal family troubles

Family Troubles?
2013 | Book chapter
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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What is at stake in family troubles?

Family Troubles?
2013 | Book chapter
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities, experiences and tensions

2013-04 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 34562
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Hooper, Carol-Ann; Gillies, Val; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Hooper, Carol-Ann; Gillies, Val
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

What is at stake in family troubles? Existential issues and value frameworks

2013-04 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 34563
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Hooper, Carol-Ann; Gillies, Val; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Family Troubles? Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People

2013-04-04 | Other | Editor
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 34558
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Hooper, Carol-Ann; Gillies, Val
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Caring after death

Critical Approaches to Care
2012 | Book chapter
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

The politics of concepts

British Journal of Sociology
2012 | Journal article
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The powerful relational language of “family”

Sociological Review
2012 | Journal article
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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Understanding Family Meanings

The Policy Press
2012 | Book
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Caring after death: issues of embodiment and relationality

2012-07-19 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 32845
Contributors: Rogers, Chrissie; Weller, Susie; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Understanding family meanings: a reflective text

2012-02-15 | Book | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 31979
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Doolittle, Megan; Day Sclater, Shelley
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Key Concepts in Family Studies

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Key Concepts in Family Studies

2011-12 | Book | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 23416
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Edwards, Rosalind
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Bereavement, young people, and social context

Brief Interventions with Bereaved Children
2010 | Book chapter
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Bereavement, young people, and social context

2010 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 25626
Contributors: Monroe, Barbara; Kraus, Frances; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Young people making meaning in response to death and bereavement

2009 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 25627
Contributors: Balk, David; Corr, Charles; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Young people making meaning in response to death and bereavement’

Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement and Coping
2009 | Book chapter
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Family Meanings

2008 | Book | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 26607
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Doolittle, Megan; Day Sclater, Shelley
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Security, insecurity and family lives

2008 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 25628
Contributors: Cochrane, Alan; Talbot, Deborah; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Security, insecurity and family lives

Security: Welfare, Crime and Society
2008 | Book chapter
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

"They all look as if they’re coping, but I’m not”

Youth and Society
2007 | Journal article
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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Children, young people and bereavement

2007 | Other | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 12979
Contributors: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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Children, Young People and Bereavement

National Children's Bureau
2007 | Report
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Representing academic knowledge

Power, Knowledge and the Academy: The Institutional is Political
2007 | Book chapter
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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane

Representing academic knowledge: the micro politics of a literature review

2007-08-24 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 9023
Contributors: Gillies, Val; Lucey, Helen; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Resilience and bereaved children

Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement
2006 | Journal article
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Journal of applied youth studies. (1)