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.

Third-year PGR candidate from the University of Leicester, researching the determination and definition of medical death in Georgian England.

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.

My work investigates cases of exhumations and reburials because of extractive industries in South Africa.

My research explores societal conflict in nineteenth century Victorian cemeteries and suggests that the history of burial spaces in Australia offers postcolonial insights.

Dr Hannah Thomas is the Special Collections Manager and Research Fellow at the Bar Convent, York.

Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka is a doctor of law and an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the Faculty of Law and Economics, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Her research interests include legal aspects of burial, voluntary and inflicted death, bioethics, the right to privacy, and the protection of human rights.

As an anthropologist and religious studies scholar, I am mostly interested in how diverse people experience dying, death, and spaces of disposal.