Bereavement Education Conference 11th November 2025 – Register your place now!

We're pleased to announce that registration for this year's Bereavement Education Conference ‘Bereavement as a Kaleidoscope: An Inclusive Approach for All’ on Tuesday 11th November 2025 is now open.

Please click here to register. Registration closes on Tuesday 4^th November. 

There will be a number of plenary and parallel sessions throughout the day.

We’re delighted to announce Helen Fielding as a key speaker. She is author of the ‘Bridget Jones Diary’ series, including the recent screen adaptation of ‘Mad About the Boy’ which includes a focus on the title character’s experience of bereavement. We’ll also be hearing from Professor Lucy Easthope (Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath), in her plenary ‘Come What May: Learning from a Life in Disaster.

Full programme details can be found here.

The parallel session abstract submission deadline has now passed but you can still submit a poster abstract - an opportunity to showcase bereavement work going on across Scotland and beyond.

Further information about the conference, including how to submit a poster and the relevant deadlines can be found on the NES Events website.

To be kept informed of future events, you may also wish to sign up to NES' bereavement update e-Newsletter.