Dr Tamarin Norwood
Tamarin Norwood is an author and academic with a background in fine art. She joined Loughborough as a Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow in 2019 and now holds a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship, working with national pregnancy and baby loss organisations to map the meanings and rituals bereaved families create when cultural narratives fail to serve them. This research builds on her essay ‘Something Good Enough’, which won the Lancet Wakley Essay Prize in 2021, and her 2022 HEIC-funded project developing writing-based bereavement resources, which are now distributed by multiple NHS Boards and Trusts across the UK, and were awarded the 2023 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for impactful research and innovation.
Tamarin’s research interests across narrative and storytelling are reflected in her external appointments: Tamarin is an Associate Editor at the BMJ Medical Humanities, Visiting Fellow at the University of Bath Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW), and Affiliate Scholar of the Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory (SELMA) at the University of Turku, Finland.