Dr Naomi Richards is Director of the End-of-Life Studies Group at the University of Glasgow. She is a Senior Lecturer in Social Science and is a social anthropologist by training. Over the last decade she has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to undertake empirical and theoretical investigations into the UK right-to-die debate, the phenomenon of old age rational suicide and she is currently Principal Investigator for Dying in the Margins (2019-2023), a qualitative visual methods study which aims to uncover the reasons for unequal access to home dying for people experiencing poverty and deprivation. She is also currently funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to co-organise the DeathWrites Network, supporting 30 writers based in Scotland to write and publish powerful, accessible work on the subject of dying, death and grief. Dr Richards also teaches multiple courses on the End-of-Life Studies Programme (PGCert/PGDip/MSc)