Dr. Sanna Lipkin is University Research Fellow at the University of Oulu and Adjunct Professor in textile archaeology at the University of Turku. In her recent Academy of Finland funded projects (2016–2023) she has specialised in the archaeology of emotional attachment, childhood, funerary archaeology, and the study of mummified remains.
Dr. Taryn Bell is a researcher at the University of York. Her doctoral research, funded by the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities, focused on emotional attachments to objects, with a focus on the Upper Palaeolithic. She is interested in how attachment theory can help archaeologists to understand both social and emotional life in the past.
Dr. Tiina Väre is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her main fields of specialty are related to osteology, paleopathology, mummy studies, historical burial culture, and stable isotopes. Her research on past breastfeeding practices in Finland utilising archaeological skeletal remains and stable isotope analyses was funded by the Academy of Finland (2020–2023) and conducted at the University of Oulu.