Conference April 2012
We are pleased to announce that the first BAHID scientific conference of 2012 will take place from 13-15 April at the University of Nottingham, with a welcome reception on Thursday evening 12 April. The conference is themed around ‘age estimation in the living’. In particular we would like to encourage the presentation of recent scientific advances and case studies relating to methods, ethical and legal aspects of age estimation in the living. This conference is aimed at a wide range of practitioners with an interest in human identification, including the police and associated investigative services, legislators, border and asylum agencies, social services, policy makers, Crown Prosecution Service, and students and specialists from areas such as forensic odontology, DNA, forensic anthropology, facial identification, radiographers, clinical psychologists, forensic medical examiners and pathologists.Further details will be made available shortly. Please check the BAHID website regularly for updates, or follow us on Twitter to be alerted to the latest updates.
Call for papers
Submissions of oral papers or poster presentations are invited. A prize of £500 will be awarded for the best student presentation and £100 for the best student poster. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words to Ms Lucina Hackman (L.Hackman@dundee.ac.uk) and Dr Richard Leigh Evans (forensic@mordicus.co.uk)
Please ensure you include details of all contributing authors, their professional or institutional affiliations, and email contact details of the corresponding or presenting author. Please indicate whether this will be an oral presentation or a poster presentation. Student presenters should indicate their eligibility.
Final date for abstract submissions: 1st March 2012