Dr. Eunice Gorman was named Academic Educator of the Year by the Association for Death Education and Counselling (ADEC). The award was announced at the association’s annual conference, held March 4 to 7, 2026, in Baltimore, Maryland.
She is a member of these professional associations:
- Association for Death Educators and Counsellors (US)
- Bereavement Ontario Network
- Canadian Company of Pilgrims
- Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association US
- PLIDA Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance US
- Ontario College of Nurses
- Ontario Association of Social Workers
- Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers RSW
- Canadian Palliative Care Nurses Association
- INELDA (US death doula)
- Canadian Hospice and Palliative Care Association
- Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Social Work Hospice Palliative Care End of Life Network (US)
Education
- PhD, University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work
- MSW, McGill University
- BSW, King’s University College, Western University
- RN, Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing
- RSW (Registered Social Worker)
Selected other training
- Death Doula, INELDA (US)
- RTS Bereavement Counselor, Certificate and Trainer (US)
- Trauma Certificate for Front Line Workers, SickKids Learning Institute
- Certificate in Departmental Management, Canadian Hospital Association
- Psychosocial Oncology Certificate, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York
Teaching
- THAN 2231: Bereavement Theories and Interventions
- THAN 2230: Introduction to Palliative Care Principles
- THAN 3303: Senior Seminar
- THAN 3324: Extraordinary Experiences Dying, Death, and Bereavement
- THAN 2606: The Roles of Death Doulas
- THAN 3325: Dark Tourism
- THAN 3331: Climate Grief and Ecoanxiety
- THAN 3323: Grief and Trauma
Research
CIHR grant
Team Collaborative Performance: Addressing Team Conflicts (A National Multisite Study on Health Care team communication
PI: Tryphonopoulos, P. Co-Is: Orchard, C., King, G. Fung, K., Gorman, E. Urigrasse, S.
SSHRC Grant
Pilot testing of online interprofessional conflict resolution training on interprofessional collaborative practice
PI: Tryphonopoulos, P. Co-Is: Orchard, C., King, G. Fung, K., Gorman, E. Urigrasse, S
Autoethnography, Autoethnography in Two Voices
Dark Tourism as secular pilgrimage
Walking Wounded: Pilgrimage as a path to healing following loss
Selected Publications
Gorman, E. (2024). Edgewalking in the land of the living and the dying. Book Looking Death in the Eyes Ed Tripathi, K., & Lamond, I. forthcoming.
Gorman E. & Lewis, L. (2024) Bereavement Support Group? No Thanks! I’m dating. In Jones, K., & Robb, M. (2024) Men and Loss New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity. Routledge.
Gorman, E., & Lewis, L. (in preparation) Trauma informed hospice palliative care: safety first. Journal of Social Work in End of Life and Palliative Care.
Gorman, E. & Lewis, L. (2025) Don't make me put out the flames of our burning planet with my tears: climate grief and ecoanxiety. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work and Social Thought forthcoming 2025.
Lewis, L. & Gorman, E. (2024). From Vimy Ridge to the Menin Gate: Dark tourist journeys of secular pilgrimage and internal hauntology. In McIntosh, IS, Munro, D. Smith, AT& Dunn-Hensley, S. Pilgrimage in the Twenty-First Century: A Kaleidoscopic Inquiry Cambridge Scholars Publishing chapter 10 p. 182-200.
Orchard, C., King, G., Tryphonopoulos, P., Gorman, E., Ugirase, S., Lising, D., & Fung, K. (2023). Interprofessional team conflict resolution: a critical literature review. The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. doi: 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000524.
Canadian Virtual Hospice My Grief Co-Lead
Gorman, E., & Lewis, L. At the hour of our death: terminal lucidity, invisible visitors and other bedside phenomena in forthcoming Is There Life After Death? Arguments, Theories, Evidence Ed. Ruickbie, L. & McLuhan, R. The Society for Psychical Research
Gorman, E. (2019). Children and Death in the Canadian Context. in Frankel, S., & McNamee, S. (eds). Contextualizing childhoods: growing up in Europe and North America. Springer International Publishing.
Gorman, E., & Arnold, C. (2019). Death of a parent in childhood or adolescence. In Arnold, C. (ed) Understanding child and adolescent grief: supporting loss and facilitating growth. Routledge
Recent Thesis Supervision
PhD committee, Faculty of Health Information Sciences Western University. The science of loss: the discursive thresholds of bereavement from melancholia to prolonged grief disorder
PhD committee, Wilfrid Laurier University, Faculty of Social Work An Exploration of Grief and Mourning in Intellectual Disability
PhD committee, UWO Faculty of Education Palliative care training
PhD committee, Loss and Grief in Organ Transplantation (FIMS)
PhD committee, IPE and Nursing Pathways University of Western Ontario (defence June 3, 2020)