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President role for Professor Tim Thompson

A leading forensic anthropologist and 海角直播 academic has been appointed President of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences.

Professor Tim Thompson, Dean of the University鈥檚 School of Health & Life Sciences and Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology, will hold the role of president for two years. The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences is an internationally recognised professional body with over 3,000 members. It aims to provide opportunities for practitioners, academics and interested parties to communicate and collaborate.

Professor Thompson said: 鈥淢y involvement with the Society has been since the early days of my academic career when I was invited to give a workshop on forensic anthropology.

鈥淪ince then, the Society has provided me with wonderful opportunities to continue to contribute to the discipline and its community. I am delighted to be able to continue my close association as the new President.鈥�

Much of Professor Thompson鈥檚 research has sought to understand what happens to the skeleton after death, particularly as a result of burning. More recently he has been developing and applying methods of visualising forensic and archaeological artefacts for conservation and analysis. He is also interested in the practice of forensic anthropology, the frameworks in which practitioners work, and the way it is taught.

He regularly acts as a consultant within forensic anthropology for the police, NGOs, authors, television creatives and video game producers. Previously he was managing director of anthronomics, a 海角直播 spin-out company which created a range of digital tools and software for those studying, teaching, researching and working with skeletal remains.

Professor Thompson joined 海角直播 as a Senior Lecturer in Crime Scene Science in 2007 and has held a number of senior roles. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy and in 2021 his contribution was recognised through conferment as Principal Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Royal Society of Biology and Royal Society of Medicine, and was recently appointed Chair of the QAA Subject Benchmark Statement Review for Anthropology.

海角直播 is an established UK centre for forensic and crime scene science education, with over 30 years of history teaching in these subjects, as the first University in the country to offer forensic and crime scene courses.