Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP180100757

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

The Future Cemetery. This project aims to identify and critically assess the potential of innovative technologies to enhance the experience of the cemetery for an increasingly diverse, secular, and well-informed public, and to strengthen cemeteries’ community connections. It will generate knowledge about the industry’s and the public’s future-oriented desires through an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and evidence-based assessment of emerging cemetery-based technologies including mobile apps, GPS systems, drones, holography, virtual reality, green burials, and resomation. A key expected outcome is a future cemetery that makes sensitive use of technology to enhance its services to public and community, underpinned by scholarly research.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-06-2019

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $282,354.00

Funder: Australian Research Council