Margaret Holloway
Biographic Data
| ID | 250497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Holloway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Holloway |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLOWAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-8566-4643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
More Than ‘Resilience’
Poor mental health among undergraduate students is often addressed through interventions which aim to improve resilience, mindfulness or similar qualities. This shifts the responsibility of improving student mental health onto students themselves and obscures the effect of institutions and societies. This scoping review aimed to identify what is known and what gaps exist in the literature about institutional and societal risk and protective facto…
Lest we forget’
Remembrance Sunday has been observed annually in the UK since 1919. The purposes and format of the service have remained remarkably unchanged despite marked changes in British society and the military context. Over recent decades, the British Legion has become concerned that the sacrifice of those ‘dying for their country’ will be forgotten or meaningless for younger generations. This article reports a case study, ‘Heroes and Loved Ones’, which f…
Looking at death in the many contexts of life Margaret Holloway in conversation with Peter Jupp
This article is comprised of transcribed excerpts from an interview undertaken by Margaret Holloway with Peter Jupp. As one of the key contributors to the development of the sociology of death and study of disposal, and a founder and first Editor of this journal, it is a privilege to be able to celebrate Peter's work in this 25th-anniversary issue of Mortality. The article demonstrates both the breadth and depth of Peter's research and scholarshi…
Death studies and memorialisation
This article serves as an introduction to the four articles which follow (Meaning and mnenomic in archaeological studies of death; Hospices as facilitators of memorialisation; A century of Armistice Day; Keep your Kodak busy) by placing them in the context of the broader study within which the research was completed - Remember Me. The Changing Face of Memorialisation. This study, funded by the AHRC and for which the author was Principal Investiga…
Social Work in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
in This Together?
The Promotion of Avoidable Ignorance in the British Journal of Social Work (Gambrill, 2018)
This reply from the Editors of the British Journal of Social Work to a recently published invited article in Research on Social Work Practice (a substantially similar version of which had been previously rejected by the BJSW), affirms the importance and timeliness of rigorous debate within social work about science and evidence-based practice but summarises the BJSW reviewers reasons for rejecting the article submitted to the BJSW. The reply conc…
Reclaiming the Ground—Territorialism or Expertise
The brief but glorious English high summer is moving on: school and university examinations, end-of-term celebrations, home-grown strawberries and Wimbledon have all run their course and we move lazily into summer holidays—still work to be done but shifting down a gear, knowing that all too soon autumn and the new academic year will be upon us. Broadcast during Wimbledon, the popular long-running radio programme Desert Island Discs had as its gue…
Social Work under Neo-Liberalism
Increasingly in the pages of this Journal we see authors from around the globe referring to the impact of neo-liberalism on social work practice, most particularly because of the harsh consequences for service users of policy change driven by these ideological principles. Although scholarly representations of neo-liberalism differ in detail and location, the social work critique is consistent over time and place. At its heart, two arguments are r…
To Boldly Struggle where Once We Aspired to Go
One of the catch phrases of the disability movement in the 1990s played cleverly with the famous Star Trek mission slogan (To boldly go where no one has gone before), proclaiming instead, To boldly go where all others have gone before. For those of us who taught disability studies in the 1980s and 1990s—those heady days of the conceptual revolution of the social model of disability and growing politicised coalitions of disabled people—recent repo…
Spirituality
Spirituality at the Sharp End
Much of the burgeoning field of contemporary spirituality studies positions spirituality within a model of positive mental health and well-being. This paper argues that we are in danger of by-passing the everyday conditions of the most disadvantaged, vulnerable and oppressed in our society if we fail to offer a spiritual response to their experiences. Developing this theme, it examines three social and spiritual challenges: dementia, the abuse of…
Symbols and Symbolism in the Funeral Today
Funerals today are noted for their emphasis on the celebration of the life of the deceased and for personalizing touches reflecting the wishes and choices of the family. These elements typically evoke memories of the deceased person or represent aspects of their life and personality. Celebrants also use images and motifs, such as light, to convey abstract ideas which may not be accessible directly to mourners and to assist in confronting the pain…
"Funerals aren't nice but it couldn't have been nicer". The makings of a good funeral
There is growing comment in both academic and popular writing about the shape and content of funerals today, with general agreement that we are seeing marked changes with a growing trend towards secularisation and personalisation. Despite this, there is as yet relatively little systematic research on the topic. This article reports on a study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK into spirituality in contemporary funerals. This qu…
A Sound Track of Your Life”
This article considers the role that music plays in contemporary UK funerals and the meaning that the funeral music has for bereaved families. It is based on findings from a recently completed study of 46 funerals funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Music contributes to the public ceremony and the personal existential quest of the bereaved. It is important to both the content and process of the contemporary funeral, an event of…
Negotiating sensitivities and grappling with intangibles
This article discusses the methodological issues encountered in an AHRC funded study conducted between October 2008 and March 2010. The project used qualitative methods to explore the ways in which mourners sought, ascribed and expressed meaning through the funeral and analysed these processes in relation to evidence of religion and a broader spirituality. The research involved case studies of 46 funerals, and 29 interviews with professionals inv…
Spirituality and Social Work
Spirituality in social work is a topic that has been neglected for far too long. This well-crafted and well-informed book plays a vitally important role in putting these important issues firmly on the agenda. It is a contribution to the literature that I very much welcome." - Dr Neil Thompson, Writer, Teacher and Adviser (www.neilthompson.info) "This book, by two leading writers in the field in the UK, is clearly the product of their combined, ma…
Dying old in the 21st century
English Dying in old age has become the majority dying of the developed world, yet older people are routinely denied palliative care, their dying characterized by failure to facilitate choice and recognize their needs. Social workers in all settings should embrace their contribution to quality end-of-life care for older people. French Mourir à un âge avancé est devenu la ‘forme majoritaire de la mort’ dans le monde développé, bien que l’on dénie …
Older Chinese people's views on food
Understanding the perceived cultural and therapeutic significance of food and its functions in social exchange is one important aspect of promoting supportive and end-of-life cancer care for minority communities. These views helped explain the diversity and salience of food use in illness for older Chinese people resident in the UK
Drug-related Deaths and the 'Special Deaths' of Late Modernity
The literature on dying and bereavement has long recognized that the features of some deaths make them especially difficult to grieve.The defining features of such deaths and bereavement are that there is often a high level of trauma, they may be socially stigmatizing or existentially problematic, and the grief is frequently 'disenfranchized'. These deaths are special because they occur outside of attempts to create ontological security that have…
Hospice or home? Expectations of end-of-life care among white and Chinese older people in the UK
This paper presents findings from two linked studies of white (n = 77) and Chinese (n = 92) older adults living in the UK, which sought their views about end-of-life care. We focus particularly on experiences and expectations in relation to the provision of end-of-life care at home and in hospices. White elders perceived hospices in idealised terms which resonate with a 'revivalist' discourse of the 'good death'. In marked comparison, for those C…
Spiritual Need and the Core Business of Social Work
This paper examines the development of social work practice in spiritual care and the attitudes towards spirituality and religion demonstrated by social workers in the UK, through reflection on key findings from two empirical studies conducted ten years apart. Fieldwork for the first study, conducted by the author, was undertaken from 1990 to 1992 and was the first of its kind to examine the treatment of spirituality in social work practice in th…
Ethics and Governance in Social Work Research in the UK
The application of formal research ethics and governance structures in social work research have lagged behind those applicable in health, although in the UK, social care has been deemed to be covered by those that were used in the NHS. Whilst this link is useful, it does not facilitate researcher involvement in the small-scale qualitative studies that feature in social work more than in health. Our exploration of the subject reveals that the dom…
Traversing the network
This article reports on a pilot study to develop and implement a Care Pathway framework for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their carers, to facilitate more comprehensive and integrated health and social care, with a streamlining of the transfer of core information around the system. The pathway is user-led, conceptualising the user/carer as the 'communications centre', resourced and supported in the management of their situation by the …
"Funerals aren't nice but it couldn't have been nicer". The makings of a good funeral
There is growing comment in both academic and popular writing about the shape and content of funerals today, with general agreement that we are seeing marked changes with a growing trend towards secularisation and personalisation. Despite this, there is as yet relatively little systematic research on the topic. This article reports on a study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK into spirituality in contemporary funerals. This qu…
Spiritual Need and the Core Business of Social Work
This paper examines the development of social work practice in spiritual care and the attitudes towards spirituality and religion demonstrated by social workers in the UK, through reflection on key findings from two empirical studies conducted ten years apart. Fieldwork for the first study, conducted by the author, was undertaken from 1990 to 1992 and was the first of its kind to examine the treatment of spirituality in social work practice in th…
Hospice or home? Expectations of end-of-life care among white and Chinese older people in the UK
This paper presents findings from two linked studies of white (n = 77) and Chinese (n = 92) older adults living in the UK, which sought their views about end-of-life care. We focus particularly on experiences and expectations in relation to the provision of end-of-life care at home and in hospices. White elders perceived hospices in idealised terms which resonate with a 'revivalist' discourse of the 'good death'. In marked comparison, for those C…
Social Work in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
in This Together?
Drug-related Deaths and the 'Special Deaths' of Late Modernity
The literature on dying and bereavement has long recognized that the features of some deaths make them especially difficult to grieve.The defining features of such deaths and bereavement are that there is often a high level of trauma, they may be socially stigmatizing or existentially problematic, and the grief is frequently 'disenfranchized'. These deaths are special because they occur outside of attempts to create ontological security that have…
Dying old in the 21st century
English Dying in old age has become the majority dying of the developed world, yet older people are routinely denied palliative care, their dying characterized by failure to facilitate choice and recognize their needs. Social workers in all settings should embrace their contribution to quality end-of-life care for older people. French Mourir à un âge avancé est devenu la ‘forme majoritaire de la mort’ dans le monde développé, bien que l’on dénie …
Older Chinese people's views on food
Understanding the perceived cultural and therapeutic significance of food and its functions in social exchange is one important aspect of promoting supportive and end-of-life cancer care for minority communities. These views helped explain the diversity and salience of food use in illness for older Chinese people resident in the UK
Ethics and Governance in Social Work Research in the UK
The application of formal research ethics and governance structures in social work research have lagged behind those applicable in health, although in the UK, social care has been deemed to be covered by those that were used in the NHS. Whilst this link is useful, it does not facilitate researcher involvement in the small-scale qualitative studies that feature in social work more than in health. Our exploration of the subject reveals that the dom…
Social Work under Neo-Liberalism
Increasingly in the pages of this Journal we see authors from around the globe referring to the impact of neo-liberalism on social work practice, most particularly because of the harsh consequences for service users of policy change driven by these ideological principles. Although scholarly representations of neo-liberalism differ in detail and location, the social work critique is consistent over time and place. At its heart, two arguments are r…
Negotiating sensitivities and grappling with intangibles
This article discusses the methodological issues encountered in an AHRC funded study conducted between October 2008 and March 2010. The project used qualitative methods to explore the ways in which mourners sought, ascribed and expressed meaning through the funeral and analysed these processes in relation to evidence of religion and a broader spirituality. The research involved case studies of 46 funerals, and 29 interviews with professionals inv…
Traversing the network
This article reports on a pilot study to develop and implement a Care Pathway framework for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their carers, to facilitate more comprehensive and integrated health and social care, with a streamlining of the transfer of core information around the system. The pathway is user-led, conceptualising the user/carer as the 'communications centre', resourced and supported in the management of their situation by the …
Traversing the network
This article reports on a pilot study to develop and implement a Care Pathway framework for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their carers, to facilitate more comprehensive and integrated health and social care, with a streamlining of the transfer of core information around the system. The pathway is user-led, conceptualising the user/carer as the 'communications centre', resourced and supported in the management of their situation by the …
Spiritual Need and the Core Business of Social Work
This paper examines the development of social work practice in spiritual care and the attitudes towards spirituality and religion demonstrated by social workers in the UK, through reflection on key findings from two empirical studies conducted ten years apart. Fieldwork for the first study, conducted by the author, was undertaken from 1990 to 1992 and was the first of its kind to examine the treatment of spirituality in social work practice in th…
Ethics and Governance in Social Work Research in the UK
The application of formal research ethics and governance structures in social work research have lagged behind those applicable in health, although in the UK, social care has been deemed to be covered by those that were used in the NHS. Whilst this link is useful, it does not facilitate researcher involvement in the small-scale qualitative studies that feature in social work more than in health. Our exploration of the subject reveals that the dom…
Drug-related Deaths and the 'Special Deaths' of Late Modernity
The literature on dying and bereavement has long recognized that the features of some deaths make them especially difficult to grieve.The defining features of such deaths and bereavement are that there is often a high level of trauma, they may be socially stigmatizing or existentially problematic, and the grief is frequently 'disenfranchized'. These deaths are special because they occur outside of attempts to create ontological security that have…
Hospice or home? Expectations of end-of-life care among white and Chinese older people in the UK
This paper presents findings from two linked studies of white (n = 77) and Chinese (n = 92) older adults living in the UK, which sought their views about end-of-life care. We focus particularly on experiences and expectations in relation to the provision of end-of-life care at home and in hospices. White elders perceived hospices in idealised terms which resonate with a 'revivalist' discourse of the 'good death'. In marked comparison, for those C…
Older Chinese people's views on food
Understanding the perceived cultural and therapeutic significance of food and its functions in social exchange is one important aspect of promoting supportive and end-of-life cancer care for minority communities. These views helped explain the diversity and salience of food use in illness for older Chinese people resident in the UK
Dying old in the 21st century
English Dying in old age has become the majority dying of the developed world, yet older people are routinely denied palliative care, their dying characterized by failure to facilitate choice and recognize their needs. Social workers in all settings should embrace their contribution to quality end-of-life care for older people. French Mourir à un âge avancé est devenu la ‘forme majoritaire de la mort’ dans le monde développé, bien que l’on dénie …
Spirituality and Social Work
Spirituality in social work is a topic that has been neglected for far too long. This well-crafted and well-informed book plays a vitally important role in putting these important issues firmly on the agenda. It is a contribution to the literature that I very much welcome." - Dr Neil Thompson, Writer, Teacher and Adviser (www.neilthompson.info) "This book, by two leading writers in the field in the UK, is clearly the product of their combined, ma…
A Sound Track of Your Life”
This article considers the role that music plays in contemporary UK funerals and the meaning that the funeral music has for bereaved families. It is based on findings from a recently completed study of 46 funerals funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Music contributes to the public ceremony and the personal existential quest of the bereaved. It is important to both the content and process of the contemporary funeral, an event of…
Negotiating sensitivities and grappling with intangibles
This article discusses the methodological issues encountered in an AHRC funded study conducted between October 2008 and March 2010. The project used qualitative methods to explore the ways in which mourners sought, ascribed and expressed meaning through the funeral and analysed these processes in relation to evidence of religion and a broader spirituality. The research involved case studies of 46 funerals, and 29 interviews with professionals inv…
Symbols and Symbolism in the Funeral Today
Funerals today are noted for their emphasis on the celebration of the life of the deceased and for personalizing touches reflecting the wishes and choices of the family. These elements typically evoke memories of the deceased person or represent aspects of their life and personality. Celebrants also use images and motifs, such as light, to convey abstract ideas which may not be accessible directly to mourners and to assist in confronting the pain…
"Funerals aren't nice but it couldn't have been nicer". The makings of a good funeral
There is growing comment in both academic and popular writing about the shape and content of funerals today, with general agreement that we are seeing marked changes with a growing trend towards secularisation and personalisation. Despite this, there is as yet relatively little systematic research on the topic. This article reports on a study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK into spirituality in contemporary funerals. This qu…
Spirituality at the Sharp End
Much of the burgeoning field of contemporary spirituality studies positions spirituality within a model of positive mental health and well-being. This paper argues that we are in danger of by-passing the everyday conditions of the most disadvantaged, vulnerable and oppressed in our society if we fail to offer a spiritual response to their experiences. Developing this theme, it examines three social and spiritual challenges: dementia, the abuse of…
Spirituality
Reclaiming the Ground—Territorialism or Expertise
The brief but glorious English high summer is moving on: school and university examinations, end-of-term celebrations, home-grown strawberries and Wimbledon have all run their course and we move lazily into summer holidays—still work to be done but shifting down a gear, knowing that all too soon autumn and the new academic year will be upon us. Broadcast during Wimbledon, the popular long-running radio programme Desert Island Discs had as its gue…
Social Work under Neo-Liberalism
Increasingly in the pages of this Journal we see authors from around the globe referring to the impact of neo-liberalism on social work practice, most particularly because of the harsh consequences for service users of policy change driven by these ideological principles. Although scholarly representations of neo-liberalism differ in detail and location, the social work critique is consistent over time and place. At its heart, two arguments are r…
To Boldly Struggle where Once We Aspired to Go
One of the catch phrases of the disability movement in the 1990s played cleverly with the famous Star Trek mission slogan (To boldly go where no one has gone before), proclaiming instead, To boldly go where all others have gone before. For those of us who taught disability studies in the 1980s and 1990s—those heady days of the conceptual revolution of the social model of disability and growing politicised coalitions of disabled people—recent repo…
The Promotion of Avoidable Ignorance in the British Journal of Social Work (Gambrill, 2018)
This reply from the Editors of the British Journal of Social Work to a recently published invited article in Research on Social Work Practice (a substantially similar version of which had been previously rejected by the BJSW), affirms the importance and timeliness of rigorous debate within social work about science and evidence-based practice but summarises the BJSW reviewers reasons for rejecting the article submitted to the BJSW. The reply conc…
Looking at death in the many contexts of life Margaret Holloway in conversation with Peter Jupp
This article is comprised of transcribed excerpts from an interview undertaken by Margaret Holloway with Peter Jupp. As one of the key contributors to the development of the sociology of death and study of disposal, and a founder and first Editor of this journal, it is a privilege to be able to celebrate Peter's work in this 25th-anniversary issue of Mortality. The article demonstrates both the breadth and depth of Peter's research and scholarshi…
Death studies and memorialisation
This article serves as an introduction to the four articles which follow (Meaning and mnenomic in archaeological studies of death; Hospices as facilitators of memorialisation; A century of Armistice Day; Keep your Kodak busy) by placing them in the context of the broader study within which the research was completed - Remember Me. The Changing Face of Memorialisation. This study, funded by the AHRC and for which the author was Principal Investiga…
Social Work in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
in This Together?
Lest we forget’
Remembrance Sunday has been observed annually in the UK since 1919. The purposes and format of the service have remained remarkably unchanged despite marked changes in British society and the military context. Over recent decades, the British Legion has become concerned that the sacrifice of those ‘dying for their country’ will be forgotten or meaningless for younger generations. This article reports a case study, ‘Heroes and Loved Ones’, which f…
More Than ‘Resilience’
Poor mental health among undergraduate students is often addressed through interventions which aim to improve resilience, mindfulness or similar qualities. This shifts the responsibility of improving student mental health onto students themselves and obscures the effect of institutions and societies. This scoping review aimed to identify what is known and what gaps exist in the literature about institutional and societal risk and protective facto…
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Social Work (7 works) · Spirituality (7 works)