Selected Publications

• Chapple Alison and Ziebland Sue (2011) How the Internet is changing the experience of bereavement by suicide: a qualitative study in the UK. Health (London), 15(2):173-87.

• Chapple Alison, Evans Julie, McPherson Anne, and Payne S (2011) Patients with pancreatic cancer and relatives talk about preferred place of death and what influenced their preferences: a qualitative study BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care.

• Chapple Alison, Swift C, and Ziebland Sue (2011) The role of spirituality and religion for those bereaved due to traumatic death. Mortality, 16((1)):1-19.

• Chapple A and Ziebland S (2010) Viewing the body after bereavement due to a traumatic death: qualitative study in the UK. BMJ, 340:c2032.

• Hilton Shona, Emslie Carol, Hunt Kate, Chapple Alison, and Ziebland Sue (2009) Disclosing a Cancer Diagnosis to Friends and Family: A Gendered Analysis of Young Men's and Women's Experiences. Qual Health Res, 19(6):744-54.

Dr Alison Chapple

Alison Chapple is a medical sociologist, and a University Research Lecturer. She was an undergraduate at The London School of Economics, obtained an MA in Health Research at Lancaster University, and completed a PhD at the University of Manchester.

Since joining the Department of Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford in 2000 she has been working with the DIPEx Health Experiences Research Group,

www.healthtalkonline.org, and has had particular responsibility for modules on prostate cancer, testicular cancer, lung cancer, terminal illness, the PSA test and screening for bowel cancer. Alison has also been responsible for the modules about bereavement due to suicide and bereavement due to traumatic death.