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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP180103148
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Disposal of the dead: beyond burial and cremation. This project aims to investigate the contexts, motivations, responses to, and implications of emerging alternatives to the profoundly important practices of burial and cremation. This project will provide a timely and critical investigation of the social, cultural, regulatory, commercial, environmental, and personal challenges posed by alternative technologies for disposal of the dead. Expected outcomes will inform the funeral industry, regulators and the public.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2018
End Date: 12-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $292,035.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Sociology | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Consumption Patterns, Population Issues and the Environment | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
