Mark Sandy is Professor of English Literature at Durham University, with research interests in Romantic poetics of loss, grief, memory, and mourning.

Douglas Davies is Professor of Theology at Durham University, with interests in death, mourning, and crematoria.

Geoffrey Scarre is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Durham University, with research interests in death, ethics, and posterity.

Matthew McCullough is a Doctoral Researcher in Musicology at Durham University, and Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies, with research interests in music as a form of memorialisation.

Rick Whitefield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Durham University in Theology and Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies with interests in anthropology, memory, and mourning.