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

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

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

Gisela Monteiro
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.

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Yiannis Papadakis
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
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.

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

Dr Ivor Perry
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.

Dr Daniela Pianezzi
Scholar at the Department of Management, University of Verona.

Fatıma İkbal Polat
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.

Vishwambhar Nath Prajapati
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 Privitera
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.

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