Unpacking sensitive research: a stimulating exploration of an established concept 

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Acknowledgments

This special issue has been collated during exceptional times, both within HE generally and globally as we have all had to adjust to new ways of working. We wish to thank all the reviewers who gave their time to peer review these articles, without their critical and reflective views this would not have been possible.

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Notes on contributors

Sharon Mallon

Sharon Mallon is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at The Open University. Her research interests span a number of areas of sensitive research related to mental health. She has focused on suicide prevention and postvtention. She is particularly interested in the impact of suicide on young people.

Erica Borgstrom

Erica Borgstrom is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology and End-of-life Care at the Open University. Erica has published on a variety of issues relating to end-of-life care and death studies, and has co-edited a book with Dr Julie Ellis and Dr Kate Woodthorpe about researching death, dying and bereavement. Erica is co-editor for Mortality and sits on the council of the Association for the Study of Death and Society.

Sam Murphy

Sam Murphy is the Associate Head of School for Health, Social Care, and Social Work at The Open University.