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.

Research interests include: the anthropology of death; mortuary culture and ritual practices; cemeteries and funerary landscapes; necrotourism and dark heritage; memory and cultural narratives of death and religion, ritual and contemporary mortuary practices.

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.
Sidenvall, E. (2024) ‘Missionary enthusiasm and human rights activism: a study of the religiopolitical world of the Swedish Slavic Mission, c. 1965-1985’, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte (SZRKG), 118.
Sidenvall, E. (2024) ‘Transforming church strategies in a changing social landscape: Sunday school statistics from a Swedish diocese, […]

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.

Postdoc historian specialising in war memorials and cemeteries, currently working on the project ‘Shakespearean Graves’ examining Shakespeare quotes in epitaphs 1700-present.

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.

Scholar with research interests at the intersection of the social history of health, women and development. His work also examines how spaces associated with death and memory — such as cemeteries — offer valuable insights into public health systems, disease patterns, and community responses to mortality.

Scholar conducting research on language and semiotics in cemeteries located in French border regions.

Kitty Vega is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, examining 19th-century British women’s mourning and funerary rituals as paratheatrical performance, with a focus on British colonial India.

Scholar with a focus on cultural heritage sites, vernacular architecture and deathscapes, with a strong emphasis on historic preservation and placemaking, and the ways that inequities in life shape selective and collective memory after death.

Scholar with an interest in historical and contemporary cemetery tourism and the place of cemeteries within the living fabric of contemporary cities.