Polly Maxwell identifies as an overall queer human and social researcher. Their research aims to affirm the queer experience of care, death & dying, with a focus not only on inequities faced by this community but also what wider society can learn from queer approaches.

Polly started their research career within the field of psychology following the death of their late partner Jules. However, their findings on queer experience of death & dying brought them constantly back to the importance of community and the need for a relational understanding of care at the end-of-life. Their current research examines death & dying in the queer family.