Erica Borgstrom

I am a Professor of Medical Anthropology at The Open Univeristy. My specialist area in research and teaching is death and dying, with an emphasis on end-of-life care and bereavement. I use my anthropological skills to disrupt the normative concepts in end-of-life care by foregrounding people’s everyday experiences and the structural and discursive elements that shape how care is provided. I also lead the university's Open Thanatology group, focusing on education and research about death-related topics.

I'm co-editor of the journal Mortality and on the council for the Association for the Study of Death and Society. I am a Fellow the Royal Anthropological Institute and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).