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

Samuel Holleran is a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne, where he is examining public participation in the reimagination of urban cemeteries with the DeathTech Research Team.

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.

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

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.

My primary research sits at the intersection of memory studies and media, considering media’s role in shaping understandings of the past.

Historian from the University of Macau with an interest in Chinese cemetery economics under Portuguese colonial rule.

Holding a BA in Archaeology and a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Bristol, Louise has over 20 years’ experience in the excavation and analysis of human remains from archaeological sites.

Janine is the Public Engagement Manager at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol (UK).

My academic expertise concerns the human engagement with dying, death and bereavement in contemporary Europe.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Planning, the University of Bamenda, Cameroon, with an interest in the dynamics of cemeteries in terms of development, use and environmental change.

Dr Brice Molo’s research focuses on the socio-history of the environment, risks, disasters, and collective deaths in Cameroon.

Harold Mytum has been recording and researching graveyards and cemeteries, and their monuments, for many years in Britain and Ireland, USA, Gibraltar and Australia.

My research concentrates on studies of funeral practices in contemporary Czech society, as well as in the 20th century.

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

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.