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.

Scholar at the Department of Management, University of Verona.

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.

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 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.

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

Oleg Reut is a Project Researcher at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland participating in the joint research project on Transnational Death: Practices of Death and Remembrance in the Transnational Everyday on the Finnish-Russian Border (TraDeBo), supported by the Academy of Finland.

Death studies, especially in conversation with contemporary British religion and ritual. Post-doctoral research to date has included UK pandemic funerals and training UK clergy for dementia care.

My research interests include the history of medical education, the nineteenth century, the British and French empires, the history of medicine, the history of Quebec/Canada, and the history of death.

Lecturer in Historical Geography in the School of Geography at UCD, Ireland with a research interest in the phenomenon known as Cilliní, or Children’s Burial Grounds.

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.

I have been Professor of Practical Theology at Lund University since September 2024. My research interests include cemetery material culture and cemeteries as places of social cohesion. I am PI for the research project Cemeteries of the Future.
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My work focuses on studying cemeteries in Serbia, particularly old cemeteries in rural areas that are at risk of disappearing. Additionally, I conduct genealogical research, documenting burial sites, family migration patterns, and historical contexts related to these topics. You can find more about my work on my website.
 
Simonović, M. (2024) ‘Jewish cemeteries and burial customs in the territory of the Jewish municipality of Pancevo’, MA Thesis, University of Belgrade.
 

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.