My research interests focus on popular funerary customs, past and present, and I’m interested in cemeteries as spaces (or places?) where death and dying are constructed, performed and contested.

Marie Fruiquière is an architect and engineer in Town and Country Planning. She is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg/ENSAS and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning/CAUP of Tongji University in Shanghai (China).

Hajar Ghorbani is a Ph.D. student in the field of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Alberta.

An archaeologist with an interest in landscapes of belief in the North Atlantic region, focusing on Christian practice and pilgrimage.

Specialist in human osteology and mortuary archaeology, and with a current interest in Victorian cemetery heritage.

Pavel Grabalov is an urban researcher with a PhD degree from the Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Hans Hadders is associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has a PhD is in social anthropology and has done research on mortuary rituals and standardization of death in Norwegian health care and South Asia.

PhD scholar at Northumbria University with an interest in eighteenth century funeral practices in England.

WRoCAH (AHRC) funded PhD student researching the history and archaeology of body-snatching in Britain.

As an interdisciplinary researcher, I am interested in human connection and empathy and the ways in which responses to death are socialised. My research focuses on bereaved parenthood, and explores contemporary and historic responses to maternal, child and reproductive mortality both from a social and policy perspective.

Postgraduate student in Gender Studies with an interest in gender in the context of historic cemeteries.

Samuel Holleran is postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University, Australia, working on a project that examines inclusive memorial making practices.

I work for a local authority, and I am the Visitor Services Officer for the medieval cathedral of St Magnus. I’m interested in historic mortuary practices, including intra-mural church burials.

A MCSA scholar whose project SEPOLCRI examines the funerary rituals and burial practices of religious minorities in Italian cities between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Dr Interlandi is an academic/practitioner in Fashion and Textiles with an interest in materials and materiality in relation to dress, death, and decomposition.

Joachim Jacobs is a landscape architect, who has specialised in conservation and restoration projects including designing an extension to the Jewish cemetery in Grunewald.

A landscape architecture scholar with an interest in design solutions for burial, cremation and more broadly memorialization and operating at the nexus of people, place and ecology.

Dr Nina Kreibig works at the Instit of History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and has an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to nineteenth century and contemporary cemeteries.

My research explores death and burial through the lens of historical archaeology, with a focus on the construction and organization of the colonial burial landscape in northeast North America.

Primarily interested in nineteenth and twentieth century histories of death and burial in Ireland, specifically with reference to suicide and institutional burial but beyond that as well.