PhD student in archaeology, studying identity and community in Orkney using grave markers and death registration data.

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.

A graduate in Art History and doctor in Tourism, specialized in art, symbology, heritage and history of cemeteries. Currently working as an independent researcher, focused on creating routes and guided tours.

Cultural geography scholar with an interest in the geography of the deceased and all types of spatial aspects of death, dying, mourning and remembrance.

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.

Gisela Monteiro is a researcher at the Cemetery Management Department of Lisbon Municipality, with expertise in the architecture of Lisbon cemeteries’ mausoleums and the Language of Flowers used in Portuguese cemeteries.

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

A scholar on modern and contemporary literature, with interest in the politics and ethics of writing, broadcasting and performance in Cross Bones Graveyard, Southwark.

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.

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.