In this context, researchers at Aalborg University in recent years have been working on building an internationally leading research environment for grief research that addresses all the essential psychological, cultural and clinical aspects of grief. The aim is to address the many facets of grief in order to gain in-depth understanding of the phenomenon, and to be able to take a qualified position on the diagnosis and treatment of grief in order to improve services to people in mourning.

This has resulted in a research project "Culture of Grief" supported by DKK 12.6 million from the Obel Family Foundation.

- You could say that there are cultural notions of love and death, happiness and suffering that underpin how we comprehend a phenomenon like grief. We would thus like to use grief as a kind of key that can open up discussions and further studies on these cultural background ideas and how they have changed, explains Svend Brinkmann, Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University and research manager for the project which is expected to be completed in 2022.

Read more on grief research at Aalborg University (in Danish)

Read more about the research project "Culture of Grief" (in Danish)

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Svend Brinkmann, Professor, Department of Communication and Psychology