Dr Denise Turner is an experienced, registered Social Worker and currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work, having previously worked in a hospice. She is particularly interested in how the experience of death impacts on health and social care practitioners and users of services. Denise has designed teaching on death and dying, including an innovative new Elective module and also delivers CPD training to health and social care practitioners. Denise’s research has focussed on varying aspects of death, loss and bereavement, including a study on parent’ experiences of the professional response to sudden, unexpected child death and on cultural aspects of death, arising from a study of social work students. She is published on her research work and has also sole authored a book, ‘Perspectives on the Experience of Sudden, Unexpected Child Death: The Very Worst Thing?’ with Palagrave MacMillan (2017). She is Associate Editor for CPD for the journal Child Abuse Review.