Rate My Professor Cindy Stocken

Stocken is a PhD student in the DeathTech Research Team, studying the intersection of death, technology, and society, with a focus on living funerals and emerging global rituals, including choices around marking bereavement, participant involvement, creative processes, and responses to newly created rituals. She contributes to the Critical Ethnography Lab. As Chair of the Australian Network of Student Anthropologists, she connects students and early-career researchers across institutions. She brings experience from prior careers in travel, learning and development, brand development, and small business founding. In 2022, she received the Australian Death Studies Society award for 'Permission', Chapter 1 of “Meaningful moments.” She co-authored "Synthetic AI data can't always explain the 'messy realities of people's lives'" in Pursuit by the University of Melbourne (November 18, 2025).