Conference Programme April 2012

Age Estimation in the Living - Programme

Note: in contrast with earlier announcements, the  careers workshop takes place on Saturday instead of Sunday and is free. The BAFA workshop is still on Sunday and is also free.

Thursday 12th April
7.30pm Pre-conference Welcome drinks reception

Friday 13th April
CHAIR: N. CHAPMAN
8.30   Registration and coffee
9.30   Welcome from BAHID President
9.45   Prof Sue Black-KEYNOTE SPEAKER- title to be confirmed
10.30 Karen Squibb-Williams (CPS) title to be confirmed
11.10 COFFEE
11.30 Helen Johnson (Refugee Council) The used T-shirt: children seeking asylum and age assessment.
12.10 Dr Diana Birch-‘Age Assessment of Young People’
12.50 LUNCH
13.50 ’Amanda Gray-‘Age Assessment and the Best Interests of the Child – a Human Rights Approach to Age Assessment’
14.30 Phil Marsden (For Odontology) title to be confirmed
15.10 Lucina Hackman-‘Skeletal Methods of Age Estimation’
15.50 Dr David Lucy-‘Age Estimates – what to tell a court?
16.40 Open Forum – all speakers from day-Question time format
17.30 Finish
18.00 BBQ and Bar

Saturday 14th April
9.00   Registration

CHAIR:
9.15   Graham Roberts – ‘Dental age assessment-10 things you should know’
9.45   Geoff Craig – ‘What tooth histology tells us about chronological age and systemic stress’
10.15 Caroline Wilkinson – craniofacial analysis for age determination

10.45 Coffee break

CHAIR: Prof C Wilkinson
11.15 Tanya Uldin-Forensic age estimation:the Western Switzerland experience
11.45 Michiel de Haas-Age estimation as performed in the Netherlands
12.15 Nicholas Marquez-Grant-forensic age assessment of unaccompanied foreign minors in Spain-legal framework, methods etc

12.45 Lunch

CHAIR:
13.45 Sarah Larsen-Visualization of the ossification of the medial clavicles
14.05 Janamarie Truesdell-Suchey Brooks and the living
14.25 Jonathan Mayo-Use of mulit-isotopes applications
14.55 Nick Claxton-Epistem
15.15 Careers session Stefan Lee - Confirmed
18.30 Finish
19.30 Conference dinner (smart casual dress)

Sunday 15th April

Morning:
  • BAFA meeting
11.30 Finish