Matt Coward-Gibbs is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. His research focuses on leisure and recreation, gamers and gaming, death and the undead, ritual and contemporary religious practice. He is a member of the Death Culture Network steering group.

Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Dead is an inter- and multi-disciplinary volume that engages with the diverse nexuses that exist between death, culture and leisure. At its heart, it is a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead.