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.

Associate Professor in Architectural Restoration at the Department of Architecture and Design of the Polytechnic University of Turin, with an interest in ruined buildings and applied conservation research in fragile, conflict-related, and archaeologically complex contexts.

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.

My main areas of focus are cemetery and death studies during the long nineteenth century. I have been researching and leading tours of historic cemeteries for nearly 20 years and hold an MA in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck, University of London.

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.

Anna Petersson is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and an Associate Professor (Docent) in Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics at Lund University, Sweden. Her work has considered the ways that memorial objects and places can serve as ritual and symbolic tools that support the bereaved’s conceptions and memories of the deceased.

Scholar at the Department of Management, University of Verona.

Anthropologist working within a university-based lab that uses spectroscopy to confirm the presence of human remains.

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.