Books
Narratives of parental death, dying and bereavement: a kind of haunting (2021). Edited by Caroline Pearce and Carol Komaromy. Palgrave: London.
This collection shows what happens when facing the inevitable and sometimes expected death of a parent, and how such an ordinary part of life as parental death might connect with the children left behind. In many ways, individual deaths are extraordinary and leave a unique legacy – a kind of haunting.
The public and private management of grief: recovering normal (2019) by Caroline Pearce. Palgrave: London.
Through a critical analysis of theory, policy and practice, The Public and Private Management of Grief looks at how ‘recovery’ is the prevailing discourse that measures and frames how people grieve, and considers what happens when people ‘fail’ to recover.
Academic papers
Pearce C, Tilley S, Ward Thompson C. 2023. ‘Being there’ is what matters: Methodological and ethical challenges when undertaking research on the outdoor environment with older people during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523001324
Szu-Szu Ho, I., McGill, K., Malden, S., Wilson, C., Pearce, C., Kaner, E., Vines, J., Aujla, N., Lewis, S., Restocchi, V., Marshall, A., Guthrie, B. (2023) Examining the social networks of older adults receiving informal or formal care: a systematic review, BMC Geriatrics, 23, 531. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04190-9
Borgstrom E, and Pearce C. 2022. End of Life Care and Bereavement. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Psychology in the Real World, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367198459-REPRW14
Pearce C, Wong G, and Barclay S. 2021. Bereavement care during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of General Practice. 71(706): 198-199. DOI: 10.3399/bjgp21X715625
Pearce C, Honey JR, Lovick R, Creamer NZ, Henry C, Langford A, Stobert M, Barclay S. 2021. ‘A silent epidemic of grief’: a survey of bereavement care provision in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Open, 11:e046872. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046872
Pearce C, Wong G, Kuhn I, and Barclay S. 2021. Supporting bereavement and complicated grief in primary care: a realist review. BJGP Open 2021.0008. DOI: 10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0008
Pearce C, Newman S., Mulligan K. 2021. Illness uncertainty in parents of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. American College of Rheumatology Open Rheumatology (ACROR), 3(4): 250–259. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr2.11238
Pearce C and Komaromy C. 2020. Recovering the body in grief: physical absence and embodied presence. Health, 26(4): 393-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459320931914
Pearce C. 2020. The complexities of developing equal relationships in patient and public involvement in health research. Social Theory & Health, 19: 362–379. DOI: 10.1057/s41285-020-00142-0
Pearce C, Goettke E, Hallowell N, McCormack P, Flinter F, McKevitt C. 2019. Delivering genomic medicine in the United Kingdom National Health Service: a systematic review and narrative synthesis, Genetics in Medicine. 21(12): 2667–2675. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41436-019-0579-x
Weinroth M, Pearce C, McKevitt C. 2019. Research campaigns in the UK National Health Service: patient recruitment and questions of valuation, Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(7): 1444-1461. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12957
Pearce C. 2018. Negotiating recovery in bereavement care practice in England: a qualitative study, Bereavement Care, 37(1): 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02682621.2018.1443596
Pearce C. and Parkes CM. 2017. Bridging the divides in bereavement research: A conversation with Colin Murray Parkes, Mortality, 22(3): 181-193. DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2017.1326891
Pearce C. 2011. Girl, Interrupted: An exploration into the experience of grief following the death of a mother in young women’s narratives, Mortality, 16(1): 35-53. DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2011.536000
Pearce C. 2010. The crises and freedoms of researching your own life, Journal of Research Practice, 6(1), M2. https://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/219
Pearce C. 2008. World Interrupted: An autoethnographic exploration into the rupture of self and family narratives following the onset of chronic illness and the death of a mother, Qualitative Sociology Review, 4(1): 131-149. http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume9/QSR_4_1_Pearce.pdf
Articles
Harrop E and Pearce C. 2022. We wept and we waited-but what can we learn from the week we mourned the Queen? Bereavement, 1. DOI: 10.54210/bj.2022.1109
Pearce, C. 2021. Introducing Bereavement: journal of grief and responses to death. Bereavement, 1. https://doi.org/10.54210/bj.2022.17
Pearce C and Komaromy C. What Makes for a Good Death? Psychology Today, 7 July 2021.
Pearce C and Komaromy C, Narrating the death of a parent, Psychology Today, 21 June 2021.
Pearce C, Happiness is a feminist issue, The F-Word, 18th April 2013.
Pearce C, Everyone needs a hug, right?, Semionaut, 12th December 2011.