Helena Nordh has a background in landscape architecture and has an interest in researching people environment interactions with a focus on urban green spaces.

Scholar with research interests in contemporary funeral and cemetery practices with focus on Sweden and the other Nordic countries.

Member of the Brazilian Association of Cemetery Studies with an interest in environmental impacts in the cemetery and funeral sectors.

I am a Social Anthropologist and my research has mostly focused on issues of ethnic conflict, nationalism, social memory, history education and Cypriot cinemas in a comparative perspective involving the two sides of divided Cyprus.

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a PhD student at Harokopio University, Athens, and her work seeks to understand the corporeality of the cemetery in terms of its governmentality.

Independent scholar researching and publishing widely on cemeteries, cremation and funeral practice in the UK.

The religion of ordinary people as seen (primarily) in the Personal Inscriptions on the headstones of the CWGC cemeteries, but also in UK civilian cemeteries.

Scholar at the Department of Management, University of Verona.

İkbal is an architect and an emerging architectural historian from Istanbul. She holds a B.Arch degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and a Master’s degree in the History of Architecture from Middle East Technical University (2023), where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate.

Assistant Professor of Sociology in UNPG College Padrauna-Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India with interests including cremation technology, human values, sustainability, belief, rituals, and death studies .

Donatella is a full Professor of Geography at University of Catania (Italy). Research and publication interests include tourism geography; sustainable cities; religious tourism; e-tourism and food policies.

I am a graduate of spatial management and a research assistant at the University of Gdańsk.

Oleg Reut is a Project Researcher at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland participating in the joint research project on Transnational Death: Practices of Death and Remembrance in the Transnational Everyday on the Finnish-Russian Border (TraDeBo), supported by the Academy of Finland.

Death studies, especially in conversation with contemporary British religion and ritual. Post-doctoral research to date has included UK pandemic funerals and training UK clergy for dementia care.

My research interests include the history of medical education, the nineteenth century, the British and French empires, the history of medicine, the history of Quebec/Canada, and the history of death.

Lecturer in Historical Geography in the School of Geography at UCD, Ireland with a research interest in the phenomenon known as Cilliní, or Children’s Burial Grounds.

Doctoral candidate in the field of psychology completing a thesis on professionals working in death-related scenarios.

Marie-Louise curates thought experiments, personal histories, research and other resources about death and burial culture for South African and international readers alike under the moniker ‘Morbid Musings’.

Researcher with a cross-disciplinary interest in disposing the dead.

For years I worked with the Wana people of Morowali, Indonesia, exploring and documenting their shamanic and funeral rituals. Now I am currently working on religious freedom, minorities and funerals in Italy.