Care in Funerals: Learning from the Ways COVID-19 Disrupted Funeral Provision in the UK, 2021-2022

The Care in Funerals project drew upon 67 semi-structured qualitative interviews with 68 individuals who had been bereaved, and/or worked or volunteered in deathcare and funeral provision in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews explored their experiences during the pandemic, evaluations of what was good and what was less good, how they responded, and suggestions of what might be improved going forward. They also examined what interviewees understood by the term 'care' in relation to funerals. All participants gave informed consent to participate. Interviews had a mean length of one hour, and were conducted using video calling software or, in some cases, telephone, between April 2021 and April 2022. This dataset consists of 63 transcripts (two interviewees were interviewed together in one case) all of which have had identifying details removed such that the participants cannot be identified. Four transcripts have been withheld as permission was not granted by participants for their inclusion in a data repository.