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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
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Director of the Center for the Science of Social Connection, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, Social Policy, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Contemporary Meanings of Ageing and Dying, Radboud University
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Doctoral candidate, psychology, University of Washington
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Professor in Public Health, Sociology and Ethics of the End of Life, Ghent University