Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

• McManus R. (2022) The Sustainable Dead Searching for the Intolerable. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 221. (Authored Books)

• McManus R. (2021) Sustainability through adversity? The impact of the earthquake on the greening of death. Lincoln University, Canterbury, NZ: SAANZ annual conference, 25 Nov 2021. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2021) Sustainabiity through adversity? The impact of the Canterbury Earthquakes on the Greening of Death. In Matthewman S; Uekusa S; Glavovic B (Ed.), A Decade of Disaster Experience in Christchurch (Ōtautahi), New Zealand: Critical Disaster Studies PerspectivesPalgrave/Springer. (Chapters)

• McManus R. (2020) The Sustainable Dead: Seeds of cultural syncretism in body disposal. e-conference hosted by York St John University: Death And Culture III 2020, 3-4 Sep 2020. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2019) Death Down Under Twenty-first Century Dying, Death, Disposal and Memorialisation in the Antipodes. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 284. (Authored Books)

• McManus R. (2019) Chapter one: Introduction. In McManus R; Cornwall J; Raudon S (Ed.), Death Down Under: Twenty-first Century Dying, Death, Disposal and Memorialisation in the Antipodes: 1-8. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars. (Chapters)

• McManus R., Blake D. and Johnston D. (2019) The penguin and the wahine: shipwrecks, resilience, and popular culture. In Teodorescu A; Jacobsen MH (Ed.), Death in Contemporary Popular Culture: 65-80. London: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429197024-5. (Chapters)

• McManus R., Matthewman S., Brickell C., McLennan G. and Spoonley P. (2019) Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students. (4th ed.) Auckland: Auckland University Press. 492. (Edited Volumes)

• McManus R; Raudon S; Cornwall J (Ed.) McManus R. (2019) Death Down Under. (1st ed.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars. (Edited Volumes)

• Nissen S., Hayward B. and McManus R. (2019) Student debt and wellbeing: a research agenda. Kotuitui 14(2): 245-256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2019.1614635. (Journal Articles)

• Cornwall J., Poppelwell Z. and McManus R. (2018) “Why did you really do it?” A mixed-method analysis of the factors underpinning motivations to register as a body donor. Anatomical Sciences Education 11(6): 623-631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ase.1796. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2018) A watery end: Innovations in sustainable body dissolution. In Johnson E (Ed.), Death and Dying in New Zealand Christchurch: Freerange Press. (Chapters)

• McManus R. (2018) Distress Purchases: A Mixed Methods Study. In Tolich M; Davidson C (Ed.), Social Science Research in New Zealand: An Introduction: 329-338. Auckland: Auckland University Press. (Chapters)

• McManus R., Elliot M., Mayell M. and Harrington E. (2018) Death and Dying at the Teece. Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, # HEreford St, Christchurch, NZ: Death and Dying at the Teece, 11 Dec 2018. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R., Walter T. and Claridge L. (2018) Restoration and loss after disaster: Applying the dual-process model of coping in bereavement. Death Studies 42(7): 405-414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2017.1366599. (Journal Articles)

• Schafer CT. and McManus R. (2018) Memento Mori and tourist encounters with authentic death in European ossuaries. In Kaul A; Skinner J (Ed.), Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying Boulder: University of Colorado Press. (Chapters)

• McManus R. (2017) Memento Mori Aoteroa. Preston, Lancashire, UK: Death Dying and Disposal 13, 6-9 Sep 2017. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• Blake D., McManus R. and Johnston D. (2016) Memorialising Disasters. Christchurch, New Zealand: People in Disasters: Response, recovery, resilience, 24-26 Feb 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2016) Keynote Speaker on DEATH AND DYING for WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2016. Christchurch, New Zealand: WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2016) Online memorials as sites of collective grief and memorialisation. Centre for Death and Society, Bath, UK: Survival, 18-19 Jun 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2016) Overseas and New Zealand Trends in Burials and Cremations. Nelson, New Zealand: Cemeteries and Crematoria Conference 2016, 14-16 Mar 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2016) Transitional Memorials. Napier, NZ: SAANZ annual conference, 22-24 Nov 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2016) Transitional Memorials. Online memorials for the Christchurch Earthquakes and the Pike River mine explosion. Dublin, Ireland: Death, Burial and the Afterlife in the Arts and Humanities, 20-23 Jun 2016. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2016) The Sociology of death and dying. In Korgen K (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology New York: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters)

• Schafer CT. and McManus R. (2016) Authenticity, Informality and Privacy in Contemporary New Zealand Post- Mortem Practices. In Dobscha S (Ed.), Death in a Consumer Culture: 57-74. London: Routledge. (Chapters)

• McManus R. (2015) Barnaby Bennett, James Dann, Emma Johnston, Ryan Reynolds (eds.), Once in a lifetime: City-building after Disaster in Christchurch. Christchurch: Freerange Press, 2014; 512pp. New Zealand Sociology 30(1): 252-256. [Book Review]. (Other)

• McManus R. (2015) Women's Voices: Solace and social innovation in the aftermath of the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes. Women's Studies Journal 29(2): 22-41. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. and Gallagher JM. (2015) "It really was a shock to the system" - a socio-technical study of the effects of the Christchurch earthquakes on water conservation habits. New Zealand Sociology 30(1): 63-89. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R., Johnston D. and Glavovic B. (2015) Contested meanings of recovery: a critical exploration of the Canterbury earthquakes-voices from the social sciences. Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences 10(2): 69-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2015.1076863. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2014) Listening to Women's voices: The work of sociology in resilience after the Christchurch Earthquakes. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Arts Scholars Masters Class Series. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2014) Women's Voices: Findings solace out of disaster. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: Sociology Seminar. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2014) Women's Voices: Finding solace out of disaster. Christchurch, New Zealand: Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa-New Zealand (SAANZ), 3-5 Dec 2014. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. and Schafer C. (2014) Final Arrangements: Examining debt and distress. Mortality 19(4): 379-397. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2014.948413. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2013) Watching Real Death is Good?! University of Glasgow, UK: Sociology Department Research Seminar Series. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2013) Bio-cremation in the United Kingdom: Case study of a new technology. Auckland, New Zealand: Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Aoteroa New Zealand (SAANZ), 9-11 Dec 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2013) Finding Solace in Death and Destruction: From the Clydebank Blitz to the Christchurch Earthquakes. Edinburgh, UK: Death in Modern Scotland, 1-3 Feb 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2013) Getting here - again. University of Auckland, New Zealand: SAANZ 2013, 9-11 Dec 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2013) Women's Voices Finding Solace: Emotional narratives of coping with mass destruction and loss. Alba Iulia, Romania: The Sixth Edition of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference (ABDD06), Eastern and Western Ways of Death, 26-28 Sep 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McCrone J. (2012) Ashes to ashes: Our fascination with the meaning of death. The Press: Mainlander 12 May 2012: 1-3. [Newspaper Article]. (Other)

• McManus R. (2012) Keynote presentation. Wellington Museum, Wellington, New Zealand: Death and Diversity Exhibition. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2012) Culture, death and dying with dignity. Health Sociology Review 21(4): 370-372. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2012) Death in a Global Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 280pp. (Authored Books)

• McManus R. (2012) Death representations and new media. Dunedin, New Zealand: Death Down Under Conference, 28-29 Jun 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2012) Editorial: Culture, death and dying with dignity. Health Sociology Review 21(4): 370-372. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2012) Emotions and Attitudes to the Cost of Funerals in New Zealand. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2012, 26-29 Nov 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2011) Watching Death on the Net is Good. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Sociology Department Research Seminar. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2011) Real death on the internet. Nijmegen, Netherlands: 10th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD10), 9-12 Sep 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. and Du Plessis R. (2011) On death and dying. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Launch of Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand website. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. and Du Plessis R. (2011) Death and dying. In Phillips J (Ed.), Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Social Connections: Life Stages and Population Wellington: Ministry for Culture and Heritage. (Chapters)

• Sampson K., Goodrich C. and McManus R. (2011) Rural families, industry change and social capital: Some consideration for policy. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 37(Jun 2011). (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2010) A Decent Send-off: Scottish internment practices. University of Bath, Bath, UK: Centre for Death & Society Annual Conference: A Good Send Off, 19-19 Jun 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2010) New ways of Belonging? Kiwi Icons in Internment Practices. Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand: Death Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand - A Symposium, 11-11 Nov 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McLennan G., Spoonley P. and McManus R. (2009) Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students. (3rd ed.) Auckland: Pearson Education. 376pp. (Edited Volumes)

• McManus R. (2009) Feelings and Finance in New Zealand funerals. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Crunch Times: Can science make a difference? Sociological Association of Aoteroa New Zealand 2009 Conference, 22-24 Nov 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2009) Work-Life Balance: A Case of Technical Disempowerment? Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 16(1): 111-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxp004. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2008) "Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business" by Pat Jalland (University of New South Wales Press, 2006. viii plus 409pp.). Journal of Social History 42(2): 535-537. [Book review]. (Other)

• McManus R. (2008) Between a rock and a hard place - the fads and frictions of bodily disposal in a globally informed age. Christchurch, New Zealand: Association for Women in the Sciences Conference, 2-4 Jul 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2008) Grief in the garden: the cultural production of suburbia. York, UK: Ninth Colloquium on Cemeteries, 23-23 May 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2008) Reconciling grief in suburban gardens. In Vanclay F; Higgins M; Blackshaw A (Ed.), Making Sense of Place: Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses: 175-181. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press. (Chapters)

• McManus R. (2007) Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK: 18 Apr 2006. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2007) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Bodily Disposal in a global age. Glasgow Caledonian University, UK: 26 Apr 2006. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2007) Death in a global age. University of York, UK: Sociology Departmental Seminar, 12 Apr 2006. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2007) 35 entries. London: Routledge. [Encyclopedia Entry]. (Other)

• McManus R. (2007) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Bodily Disposal in a Global Age. University of East London, UK: British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2007 (BSA), 12-14 Apr 2007. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2007) Grief In The Garden: The Cultural Production Of Suburbia. Auckland, New Zealand: TASA & SAANZ Joint Conference 2007, 4-7 Dec 2007. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2007) Multi-cultural death practices. (3522) [Print interview]. (Other)

• McManus R. (2007) Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism. By Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006, Oo, viii+232. American Journal of Sociology 112(6): 1939-1941. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/519707. [Book Review]. (Other)

• McManus R. and Schafer C. (2007) Final Arrangements: Attitudes to Funeral Costs in New Zealand. [External Research Grant]. (Other)

• McManus R. (2006) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Emergent Trends in Bodily Disposal. Hamilton, New Zealand: Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ): Connections and Disconnections, 22-24 Nov 2006. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2006) Contributing essay for photo-exhibition 'Caring for the Dead' by Bridgit Anderson, SOFA Gallery, The Arts Centre, Christchurch, 13 Jun-23 Jul 2006. . (Other)

• McManus R. (2006) Dead Men's Geraniums: Placing Grief and Mourning. Hobart, Australia: Senses of Place: Joint Conference of the Place Research Network, the National Museum of Australia, the Mountain Festival and the Community, Place and Change Theme Area of the University of Tasmania, 5-8 Apr 2006. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2006) Referee report for the Research Grants Board of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK). Reference no. REES-02602300448. . (Other)

• McManus R. (2006) Responsibility in the research process. Higher Education Academy's Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, the Centre for Social Work and Policy and Sheffield Hallam University. [Web Resource]. (Other)

• McManus R. (2006) Shifting Practices in New Zealand Sociology. New Zealand Sociology 21(2): 270-288. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2006) Marketing a Monster? Teaching social theory in the globalised market of New Zealand Higher Education. In Cope J; Canaan JE; Harris D (Ed.), Learning and Teaching Social Theory: 138-163. Birmingham: C-SAP, The Higher Education Academy. (Chapters)

• McManus R. (2005) Freedom and Suicide: A Genealogy of Suicide Regulation in New Zealand 1840-2000. Journal of Historical Sociology 18(4): 430-456. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2005.00263.x. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. (2005) Marketing the Monster: Teaching Social Theory in the Globalised Market of New Zealand Higher Education. Birmingham, UK: C-SAP Seminar "Teaching Social Theory", 18 Mar 2005. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2005) Whose role is it anyway? Implementing work-life balance practices in New Zealand. Manchester, UK: First International Conference on Community, Work and Family: Change and Transformation, 16 Mar 2005. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2004) Quixotic Adventures: Researching the Inclusion Strategies of Suicide Prevention. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Mobile Boundaries/Rigid Worlds: The Contemporary Paradox - 2nd Annual Conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, 27 Sep 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2004) Suicide Prevention as Cultural Production. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Centre for Reserach on Social Inclusion Annual Conference, 1 Sep 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2004) Suicide Subjects: Regulating Suicide to Dis-Empower Death. Mortality 9(3): 189-205. (Journal Articles)

• McManus R. and Lilley S. (2004) Whose role is it anyway? Implementing work-life balance practices in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development Annual Social Policy, Research and Evaluation Conference, 25 Nov 2004. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2003) Quixotic Adventures: studying community participation in suicide prevention. Social Science Research Centre, Canterbury Univers: Social Policy Network Seminar. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (2003) Bad Death: Sociology and the Moral Regulation of Suicide in New Zealand. Palmerston North, New Zealand. Massey University. (Theses / Dissertations)

• McManus R. (2003) The Compassionate Self - New Zealand Bereaved by Suicide Support Groups and Moral Regulation. Christchurch, New Zealand: Social Science in the 21st Century: Sociological Association of Aotearoa (NZ) Conference, 5 Dec 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2003) The New Zealand Care Gap. Auckland, New Zealand: Sociological Association of New Zealand Annual Conference, 1 Dec 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (2000) The Moral Regulation of Suicide in New Zealand: 1840- 1999. Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand: Sociological Association of New Zealand Annual Conference, 1 Dec 2000. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (1998) Representing Suicide: Methodological Approaches. Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ: Nursing Studies Post-Graduate Seminar, 27 Jun 2005. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (1998) Silencing Suicide: An analysis of representations of Suicide in late 1990s New Zealand. Massey University Palmerston North NZ: Women's Studies Departmental Seminar., 30 Nov 2005. (Oral Presentations)

• McManus R. (1998) Representations of Suicide : Controlling Collective Perceptions? Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane, Aus: The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, 1 Dec 1998. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus R. (1997) The Social Construction of Suicide: Issues and Dilemmas. Massey University, Albany, New Zealand: Sociological Association of New Zealand Annual Conference, 1 Dec 1997. (Conference Contributions - Other)

• McManus Ruth. (1990) Getting Here. In Scanlon J (Ed.), Surviving the Blues: Growing Up in the Thatcher Decade: 134—47. London: Virago Press. (Chapters)

Editorial Work

• Health Sociology Review Editor, Special Issue ( 2011 - 2023)
• Journal editing and refereeing Editor ( 2012 - 2017)
• Death Down Under Chief Editor ( 2016 - 2023)
• Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students Chief Editor ( 2017 - 2023)

Review and Refereeing

• Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies ( 2000 - 2005)
• Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies ( 2005 - 2023)
• Mortality ( 2010 - 2023)
• New Zealand Sociology ( 2010 - 2017)
• SITES: Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. ( 2009 - 2023)
• Sociology ( 2006 - 2023)
• Sociology ( 2000 - 2005)

Research Groups

Future Research

• Bio-cremation project phase 2: the public's view of alkaline hydrolysis
• Disaster memorialisation
• Aotearoa New Zealand death ways