INQUEST Survey: Remembering with Care Memorialisation

4WardEverUK • 21 June 2025

source: INQUEST

published: June 2025

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As part of Unjust Deaths, INQUEST have brought together a group of bereaved people, socially engaged artists, campaigners, academics, curators, journalists and gardeners to form a Memorialisation Working Group. Meeting over 12 months, the group is the start of an in-depth consultation into thinking about how to publicly memorialise state-related deaths across England, Scotland and Wales.


The group includes representatives from Glasgow, Manchester, Cambridgeshire, Newport, Devon, London and Leeds and includes seven members who have benefitted from INQUEST's support as well as other bereaved people. 


One of the key focuses has been the creation of a survey over the course of several discussions.

INQUEST are hoping to gather at least 100 responses to help shape their understanding and the future direction of this work.

Take the survey

Memorialisation is a process of preserving and sharing memories. This process is a way for us to remember together, and the way we remember shapes collective memory.


Memorialisation has a strong association with movements for justice and remembering victims of human rights abuses. Memorials – in all their varied forms, from marches to plaques – hold a potential power to help with mourning, healing and raising awareness by promoting reconciliation and understanding.

This survey is for anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one as a result of state violence and/or neglect. By which we mean they had contact with state organisations like the police, prison, immigration, mental health services or care-related.


It is also for people in communities where this has happened. We know these are painful experiences. We want to make space to listen, remember, and honour those that have died and share how people remember them together.


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