British Association For Human Identification

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The primary aim of the Association is to encourage productive interchange between various disciplines in human identification, promote the academic integration of individual subjects and through the medium of a collective body, pursue standards of excellence and innovative developments. We provide a forum for discussion and promotion of subjects within the domain of human identification.

The membership includes (but is not limited) to professionals in the fields of forensic anthropology, forensic odontology, forensic archaeology, facial anthropology, forensic podiatry, forensic pathology, and disaster victim identification. Members come from academia, law enforcement, private business, institutional and legal backgrounds.

Although this is a British Association there are members outside the UK from elsewhere in Europe, the US and Australia, and membership throughout the world is encouraged.

Membership of the Association costs just Ł30 for a full membership or Ł15 for a student membership; more details and an application form can be found in the menu on the right.

Selected News headlines

The news section of the BAHID site contains a selection of national and international news, as well as a range of research, professional news and announcements, all posted by and for our members. This is a small selection of articles that were recently posted on the site. Members can find a wider selection of items on the News Frontpage.

Disaster training disasters
Nigerian plane and French train
Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis
Ashahidi software helped locate Haiti victims
DNA hope over mass war grave
Local Dundee background story on Fromelles exhumations
New book on forensic use of stable isotopes
Stable Isotope Forensics: An Introduction to the Forensic Application of Stable Isotope Analysis Dr Wolfram Meier-Augenstein
Course: Juvenile Osteology
Cranial and Postcranial Juvenile Osteology for Forensic and Archaeological Practitioners, in Dundee
Couple in own skeleton donation to dungeon
A couple have pledged their skeletons to an Edinburgh dungeon visitor attraction because they do not want to inflict their funerals on their family.
Two UK couples 'missing' in Chile following earthquake
Concern is growing for two British couples who are "missing" in Chile following Saturday's earthquake.
The African queen who called York home
A study of various remains and artefacts from the 4th century at the Yorkshire Museum shows North Africans were living there thousands of years ago.
Dundee experts on 'Crimewatch' - tonight
The case of the 'jigsaw murder'
DNA reveals ancient human's face
DNA analysis of human hair preserved in Greenland's permafrost has given clues as to what the owner looked like.