Colby Valentine
Biographic Data
| ID | 101083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colby Valentine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colby |
| FAMILY NAME | Valentine |
| SIGNATURE | VALENTINE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9771-0401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Look at Services for Male Victims of Sex Trafficking: 10 Years After the Report from Ecpat-USA
Lessons from the field
Organic public sociology is demonstrated through collaborative community memberships where academics work together with practitioners to create knowledge. The following chapter discusses two research-based partnerships with non-profit, community-based organizations that work with trauma victims – one larger, established organization with consistent funding revenues and one smaller, grassroots organization in need of funding. Research assistance w…
Supporting bereaved students at university: Balancing institutional standards and reputation alongside individual compassion and care
Bereaved university students in the UK are an overlooked population in research, policy, and practice. In this article, we examine the implications of this neglect via (1) international literature on bereavement in young people; (2) international literature on bereavement in higher education students; (3) UK and US literature on workplace bereavement and its implications for universities in preparing the future workforce; and (4) findings from a …
Meaning-making in bereavement and grief
The focus on meaning-making in loss (Neimeyer, 2001) reflects increasing use of qualitative methods to study how individuals and groups experience bereavement. Adopting a relativist, constructivist
How do UK universities support bereaved students? A case study
This article reports on a small, qualitative, in-house pilot case study on student bereavement support at one UK university, where I work. The study’s aim was to examine how bereaved students are supported to continue their studies and recover their emotional well-being from the perspectives of both previously bereaved students and staff involved in dealing with student bereavement. To this end, I conducted a review of available support as docume…
Bereavement through substance use: Findings from an interview study with adults in England and Scotland
Background: Deaths associated with alcohol and/or drugs belong to a category of ‘special’ deaths due to three characteristics: traumatic circumstances of the death, stigma directed to both the bereaved and the deceased, and resulting disenfranchised grief experienced by the bereaved. These factors can impede those who are bereaved in this way from both grieving and accessing support. In response to a lack of research in this area this paper repor…
Bereavement Following Substance Misuse: A Disenfranchised Grief
Bereavement following a drug- or alcohol-related death has been largely neglected in research and service provision, despite its global prevalence and potentially devastating consequences for those concerned. Whilst researchers have drawn attention to the suffering experienced by families worldwide in coping with a member’s substance misuse, this article highlights the predicament of families bereaved following a substance misuse death. To this e…
Compassion or stigma? How adults bereaved by alcohol or drugs experience services
How to promote compassionate care within public services is a concern in several countries; specifically, some British healthcare scandals highlight poor care for service users who may readily be stigmatised as ‘other’. The article therefore aims to understand better the relationship between stigma and compassion. As people bereaved by a drug- or alcohol-related death often experience stigma, the article draws on findings from a major British stu…
Creative Responses to a Drug- or Alcohol-Related Death: A Sociocultural Analysis
This article takes a sociocultural approach to examining creative responses to a traumatic death and loss and their contribution to further understanding of grief, identity, and continuing bonds. Based on qualitative interviews with family members bereaved after a drug- or alcohol-related death, the article explores how, in circumstances which threaten identity and continuity of being, grief may find expression through public and private creativi…
From hope to hope: The experience of older Chinese people with advanced cancer
In our study that explored the current end-of-life care provision for Chinese older people with advanced/terminal cancer, hope emerged as a significant aspect of coping with their condition. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with a group of older people, their family carers and health professionals, this article explores participants' constructions of hope in terms of what they were hoping for, how their hopes helped them cope with their i…
From the Cradle to the Grave: Funeral Welfare from an International Perspective
This article reports on a pilot study examining funeral welfare for citizens from low income backgrounds. Through a review of funeral welfare provision in 12 capitalist democratic countries it seeks to inform the current system of state support in B ritain, arguing that insufficient attention has been given to funeral costs as a policy issue. Mindful of the B ritish welfare state's original ‘cradle to grave’ ethos, such attention is ever more pre…
Opportunities and barriers to forming a professional identity: Communities of practice within UK funeral directing
The status of funeral directors, including whether or not the industry can be considered a legitimate ‘profession’, has long been a topic of interest in this journal. Contributing to this ongoing debate, this paper considers opportunities and barriers to professional development in the UK funeral industry. In so doing, the paper makes particular reference to ‘communities of practice’ (CP), a model of situated learning. Previous research in compar…
Identity and Post-Mortem Relationships in the Narratives of British and Japanese Mourners
Drawing on the 'affective turn' in the social sciences, this paper demonstrates the value of studying responses to death and loss in illuminating the role of the body and emotions in managing identities in contemporary societies. Looking across cultures at an experience that may threaten identity and continuity of being provides a broader, more complex and nuanced picture of social identity and participation in society. In focusing on societies w…
Putting 'The Grave' into Social Policy: State Support for Funerals in Contemporary UK Society
There is a long tradition in the assessment of UK social policy of examining benefit entitlement and access, yet little attention has been paid towards benefits associated with bereavement and, in particular, what happens for those people who cannot afford a funeral and require state assistance. This is despite the fact that every year approximately one in ten deaths in the UK results in a claim to the Department for Work and Pensions' Funeral Pa…
Correctional Officers and Domestic Violence: Experiences and Attitudes
The role of the ancestral tradition in bereavement in contemporary Japanese society
By focusing on the reported experiences of bereaved Japanese people, this paper explores the continuing role of the ancestral tradition in contemporary responses to death and loss. In a culture that emphasises social conformity, it demonstrates the diverse and innovative ways individuals negotiated a shared tradition in a contemporary postmodern context in which a variety of cultural messages compete for attention. Traditional Buddhist mourning r…
Disparate Levels of Stress in Police and Correctional Officers: Preliminary Evidence from a Pilot Study on Domestic Violence
New data from a prevention curriculum project on officer-involved domestic violence reveals significant differences in the reported job stress of Florida's correctional officers when compared to police officers who took the same surveys. The significantly higher reported levels of organizational stress in particular—especially those related to staff and resource shortages and attitudes about leadership—raise concerns about the relationship betwee…
Continuing bonds after bereavement: A cross-cultural perspective
The ways in which eastern and western cultures grieve for their dead are often contrasted. Eastern cultures are seen to place greater value on traditional ritual and ceremony that, it is argued, serve to create a lasting, and comforting, bond with the deceased. By contrast, western societies are seen to be much more materialist and individualistic. This article takes a cross-cultural look at responses to death and loss in the UK and Japan, both p…
Negotiating a loved one's dying in contemporary Japanese society
This paper examines the interview narratives of bereaved individuals in Japan, drawing attention to the diversity of ways they attempted to achieve a good death for their loved ones. Such diversity, which has been perceived to reflect the multicultural and individualistic nature of post-modern Western, Anglophone societies, is also apparent in the Japanese context, a society that is post-modern, yet non-Western, with a strong sense of traditional…
A Contemporary Ars Moriendi
A review of Dying into Grace. Mother and Daughter...a Dance of Healing by Artemis March, PhD. Quantum Lens Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 344 pp. (ISBN 9780-0-9793967-9-3). $19.95: Reviewed by Christine Valentine
Bereavement Narratives: Continuing Bonds in the Twenty-First Century
Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best or only way to help the bereaved. In a radical departure, it emphasises normality and social and cultural diversity in grieving. Exploring the significance of the dying person’s final moments for those who are left behind, this book sheds new light on…
The “Moment of Death”
The "moment of death," once a dominant concept in preparing for a "good death", has been eclipsed by a focus on the wider concept of the "dying trajectory". However, findings from interviews with 25 bereaved individuals suggest that dying loved ones' final moments may still be experienced as highly significant in their own right. In some accounts the dying individual's final moments did not feature or made little impression, either because the su…
Academic constructions of bereavement
This paper takes the form of a literature review to trace and evaluate the different and changing theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives through which Western, mainly UK social scientists (i.e., psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists), have sought to understand and address the experience of bereavement during the twentieth century. Such an overview is timely in relation to the rapidly changing nature of Western society a…
Indigenous Anthropology in Papua New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]
This paper describes the extent to which at this time anthropology in Papua New Guinea, defined as studies of traditional cultures and societies and of changing social structures, is beginning to be conducted by Papua New Guineans. From a growing literature the writer selects the work of 12 Papua New Guineans for detailed discussion. They are selected because their approach is more analytical than that of many other writers and because in various…
Cultura y culturas
Men of Anger and Men of Shame: Lakalai Ethnopsychology and Its Implications for Sociopsychological Theory
Compassion or stigma? How adults bereaved by alcohol or drugs experience services
How to promote compassionate care within public services is a concern in several countries; specifically, some British healthcare scandals highlight poor care for service users who may readily be stigmatised as ‘other’. The article therefore aims to understand better the relationship between stigma and compassion. As people bereaved by a drug- or alcohol-related death often experience stigma, the article draws on findings from a major British stu…
Disparate Levels of Stress in Police and Correctional Officers: Preliminary Evidence from a Pilot Study on Domestic Violence
New data from a prevention curriculum project on officer-involved domestic violence reveals significant differences in the reported job stress of Florida's correctional officers when compared to police officers who took the same surveys. The significantly higher reported levels of organizational stress in particular—especially those related to staff and resource shortages and attitudes about leadership—raise concerns about the relationship betwee…
Indigenous Anthropology in Papua New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]
This paper describes the extent to which at this time anthropology in Papua New Guinea, defined as studies of traditional cultures and societies and of changing social structures, is beginning to be conducted by Papua New Guineans. From a growing literature the writer selects the work of 12 Papua New Guineans for detailed discussion. They are selected because their approach is more analytical than that of many other writers and because in various…
From the Cradle to the Grave: Funeral Welfare from an International Perspective
This article reports on a pilot study examining funeral welfare for citizens from low income backgrounds. Through a review of funeral welfare provision in 12 capitalist democratic countries it seeks to inform the current system of state support in B ritain, arguing that insufficient attention has been given to funeral costs as a policy issue. Mindful of the B ritish welfare state's original ‘cradle to grave’ ethos, such attention is ever more pre…
Correctional Officers and Domestic Violence: Experiences and Attitudes
Putting 'The Grave' into Social Policy: State Support for Funerals in Contemporary UK Society
There is a long tradition in the assessment of UK social policy of examining benefit entitlement and access, yet little attention has been paid towards benefits associated with bereavement and, in particular, what happens for those people who cannot afford a funeral and require state assistance. This is despite the fact that every year approximately one in ten deaths in the UK results in a claim to the Department for Work and Pensions' Funeral Pa…
From hope to hope: The experience of older Chinese people with advanced cancer
In our study that explored the current end-of-life care provision for Chinese older people with advanced/terminal cancer, hope emerged as a significant aspect of coping with their condition. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with a group of older people, their family carers and health professionals, this article explores participants' constructions of hope in terms of what they were hoping for, how their hopes helped them cope with their i…
Identity and Post-Mortem Relationships in the Narratives of British and Japanese Mourners
Drawing on the 'affective turn' in the social sciences, this paper demonstrates the value of studying responses to death and loss in illuminating the role of the body and emotions in managing identities in contemporary societies. Looking across cultures at an experience that may threaten identity and continuity of being provides a broader, more complex and nuanced picture of social identity and participation in society. In focusing on societies w…
Creative Responses to a Drug- or Alcohol-Related Death: A Sociocultural Analysis
This article takes a sociocultural approach to examining creative responses to a traumatic death and loss and their contribution to further understanding of grief, identity, and continuing bonds. Based on qualitative interviews with family members bereaved after a drug- or alcohol-related death, the article explores how, in circumstances which threaten identity and continuity of being, grief may find expression through public and private creativi…
Men of Anger and Men of Shame: Lakalai Ethnopsychology and Its Implications for Sociopsychological Theory
Cultura y culturas
Indigenous Anthropology in Papua New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]
This paper describes the extent to which at this time anthropology in Papua New Guinea, defined as studies of traditional cultures and societies and of changing social structures, is beginning to be conducted by Papua New Guineans. From a growing literature the writer selects the work of 12 Papua New Guineans for detailed discussion. They are selected because their approach is more analytical than that of many other writers and because in various…
Academic constructions of bereavement
This paper takes the form of a literature review to trace and evaluate the different and changing theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives through which Western, mainly UK social scientists (i.e., psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists), have sought to understand and address the experience of bereavement during the twentieth century. Such an overview is timely in relation to the rapidly changing nature of Western society a…
The “Moment of Death”
The "moment of death," once a dominant concept in preparing for a "good death", has been eclipsed by a focus on the wider concept of the "dying trajectory". However, findings from interviews with 25 bereaved individuals suggest that dying loved ones' final moments may still be experienced as highly significant in their own right. In some accounts the dying individual's final moments did not feature or made little impression, either because the su…
Bereavement Narratives: Continuing Bonds in the Twenty-First Century
Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best or only way to help the bereaved. In a radical departure, it emphasises normality and social and cultural diversity in grieving. Exploring the significance of the dying person’s final moments for those who are left behind, this book sheds new light on…
Continuing bonds after bereavement: A cross-cultural perspective
The ways in which eastern and western cultures grieve for their dead are often contrasted. Eastern cultures are seen to place greater value on traditional ritual and ceremony that, it is argued, serve to create a lasting, and comforting, bond with the deceased. By contrast, western societies are seen to be much more materialist and individualistic. This article takes a cross-cultural look at responses to death and loss in the UK and Japan, both p…
Negotiating a loved one's dying in contemporary Japanese society
This paper examines the interview narratives of bereaved individuals in Japan, drawing attention to the diversity of ways they attempted to achieve a good death for their loved ones. Such diversity, which has been perceived to reflect the multicultural and individualistic nature of post-modern Western, Anglophone societies, is also apparent in the Japanese context, a society that is post-modern, yet non-Western, with a strong sense of traditional…
A Contemporary Ars Moriendi
A review of Dying into Grace. Mother and Daughter...a Dance of Healing by Artemis March, PhD. Quantum Lens Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 344 pp. (ISBN 9780-0-9793967-9-3). $19.95: Reviewed by Christine Valentine
The role of the ancestral tradition in bereavement in contemporary Japanese society
By focusing on the reported experiences of bereaved Japanese people, this paper explores the continuing role of the ancestral tradition in contemporary responses to death and loss. In a culture that emphasises social conformity, it demonstrates the diverse and innovative ways individuals negotiated a shared tradition in a contemporary postmodern context in which a variety of cultural messages compete for attention. Traditional Buddhist mourning r…
Disparate Levels of Stress in Police and Correctional Officers: Preliminary Evidence from a Pilot Study on Domestic Violence
New data from a prevention curriculum project on officer-involved domestic violence reveals significant differences in the reported job stress of Florida's correctional officers when compared to police officers who took the same surveys. The significantly higher reported levels of organizational stress in particular—especially those related to staff and resource shortages and attitudes about leadership—raise concerns about the relationship betwee…
Correctional Officers and Domestic Violence: Experiences and Attitudes
Opportunities and barriers to forming a professional identity: Communities of practice within UK funeral directing
The status of funeral directors, including whether or not the industry can be considered a legitimate ‘profession’, has long been a topic of interest in this journal. Contributing to this ongoing debate, this paper considers opportunities and barriers to professional development in the UK funeral industry. In so doing, the paper makes particular reference to ‘communities of practice’ (CP), a model of situated learning. Previous research in compar…
Identity and Post-Mortem Relationships in the Narratives of British and Japanese Mourners
Drawing on the 'affective turn' in the social sciences, this paper demonstrates the value of studying responses to death and loss in illuminating the role of the body and emotions in managing identities in contemporary societies. Looking across cultures at an experience that may threaten identity and continuity of being provides a broader, more complex and nuanced picture of social identity and participation in society. In focusing on societies w…
Putting 'The Grave' into Social Policy: State Support for Funerals in Contemporary UK Society
There is a long tradition in the assessment of UK social policy of examining benefit entitlement and access, yet little attention has been paid towards benefits associated with bereavement and, in particular, what happens for those people who cannot afford a funeral and require state assistance. This is despite the fact that every year approximately one in ten deaths in the UK results in a claim to the Department for Work and Pensions' Funeral Pa…
From the Cradle to the Grave: Funeral Welfare from an International Perspective
This article reports on a pilot study examining funeral welfare for citizens from low income backgrounds. Through a review of funeral welfare provision in 12 capitalist democratic countries it seeks to inform the current system of state support in B ritain, arguing that insufficient attention has been given to funeral costs as a policy issue. Mindful of the B ritish welfare state's original ‘cradle to grave’ ethos, such attention is ever more pre…
Compassion or stigma? How adults bereaved by alcohol or drugs experience services
How to promote compassionate care within public services is a concern in several countries; specifically, some British healthcare scandals highlight poor care for service users who may readily be stigmatised as ‘other’. The article therefore aims to understand better the relationship between stigma and compassion. As people bereaved by a drug- or alcohol-related death often experience stigma, the article draws on findings from a major British stu…
Creative Responses to a Drug- or Alcohol-Related Death: A Sociocultural Analysis
This article takes a sociocultural approach to examining creative responses to a traumatic death and loss and their contribution to further understanding of grief, identity, and continuing bonds. Based on qualitative interviews with family members bereaved after a drug- or alcohol-related death, the article explores how, in circumstances which threaten identity and continuity of being, grief may find expression through public and private creativi…
From hope to hope: The experience of older Chinese people with advanced cancer
In our study that explored the current end-of-life care provision for Chinese older people with advanced/terminal cancer, hope emerged as a significant aspect of coping with their condition. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with a group of older people, their family carers and health professionals, this article explores participants' constructions of hope in terms of what they were hoping for, how their hopes helped them cope with their i…
Bereavement through substance use: Findings from an interview study with adults in England and Scotland
Background: Deaths associated with alcohol and/or drugs belong to a category of ‘special’ deaths due to three characteristics: traumatic circumstances of the death, stigma directed to both the bereaved and the deceased, and resulting disenfranchised grief experienced by the bereaved. These factors can impede those who are bereaved in this way from both grieving and accessing support. In response to a lack of research in this area this paper repor…
Bereavement Following Substance Misuse: A Disenfranchised Grief
Bereavement following a drug- or alcohol-related death has been largely neglected in research and service provision, despite its global prevalence and potentially devastating consequences for those concerned. Whilst researchers have drawn attention to the suffering experienced by families worldwide in coping with a member’s substance misuse, this article highlights the predicament of families bereaved following a substance misuse death. To this e…
How do UK universities support bereaved students? A case study
This article reports on a small, qualitative, in-house pilot case study on student bereavement support at one UK university, where I work. The study’s aim was to examine how bereaved students are supported to continue their studies and recover their emotional well-being from the perspectives of both previously bereaved students and staff involved in dealing with student bereavement. To this end, I conducted a review of available support as docume…
Meaning-making in bereavement and grief
The focus on meaning-making in loss (Neimeyer, 2001) reflects increasing use of qualitative methods to study how individuals and groups experience bereavement. Adopting a relativist, constructivist
Supporting bereaved students at university: Balancing institutional standards and reputation alongside individual compassion and care
Bereaved university students in the UK are an overlooked population in research, policy, and practice. In this article, we examine the implications of this neglect via (1) international literature on bereavement in young people; (2) international literature on bereavement in higher education students; (3) UK and US literature on workplace bereavement and its implications for universities in preparing the future workforce; and (4) findings from a …
Lessons from the field
Organic public sociology is demonstrated through collaborative community memberships where academics work together with practitioners to create knowledge. The following chapter discusses two research-based partnerships with non-profit, community-based organizations that work with trauma victims – one larger, established organization with consistent funding revenues and one smaller, grassroots organization in need of funding. Research assistance w…
Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (11 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works)