Charlotte is a French PhD candidate at the School of Culture, History and Language within the College of Asia and the Pacific. She completed a degree in anthropology from the University of Aix-Marseille (France) and a master’s degree in Oceanic languages, cultures and societies from the University of French Polynesia (Tahiti). Charlotte's research interests include religious studies, spirituality, representations of spirits and invisible entities, and Pacific and Australian societies. At the heart of her work is the question of understanding the representations of death and life after death, and the social and ritualised effects of these perceptions.