For those of you who have not yet had chance to read the BAFA newsletter, please find attached an invite to apply for two vacant positions on the BAFA committee. Members who are working within a commercial forensic environment, or who are working in Higher Education and have a track record and keen interest in applied research, are encouraged to apply!

All the details that you need to apply are provided in the attached flyer, but if any of you have any additional queries, please contact either Dr Julie Roberts, or BAFA secretary Dr Rachael Carew.

Please note that you must be a BAFA Member to be eligible to apply. 

​For our upcoming Spring conference on Saturday 29th April in Coventry, we invite students to present their forensic anthropology research either as posters or in 3 or 15 minute presentations with Q&A and prizes awarded! The deadline is 31/03/23. A great opportunity to present your work!

Forensic Archaeology, Anthropology and Ecology is a journal that specialises in the inter-relationship between forensic anthropology, forensic archaeology and environmental forensic science in terms of research and forensic practice

Editors
Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Aida Gutierrez Galiacho, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

The journal covers all aspects of anthropology applied to medico-legal or humanitarian investigations, the application of archaeological methods and theory to forensic practice and how environmental or ecological evidence such as pollen, botany and soils has been used in the search and identification of human remains, as well as bringing perpetrators to justice when applicable.
 
A wide range of subject areas are welcomed, including geophysical methods, post-mortem interval, trauma and pathology, heritage crime, taphonomy, environmental scene sampling, entomology, mass grave investigations amongst others, and case studies ranging from WWI onwards.
 
FAAE publishes specially commissioned review papers, which aim to give an overview of a particular subject or issue; research papers which report new methods or techniques, as well as case studies which are short accounts of forensic or humanitarian cases where anthropological, archaeological and/or environmental methods have played a critical or new role. 

For journal details, published issues and guidance for submitting an article, please follow this link: ​https://journal.equinoxpub.com/FAAE/​

Click here to The BAFA Steering Committee wishes you a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year! Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to working with you in the years to come. Happy holidays!.

The course is offered by Alecto Forensics/Forensic Access Group

Instructors: Dr Julie Roberts/Howard Way OBE

The aims of the course are to provide:
1. An awareness of the processes involved in Disaster Victim Identification
2. Practical experience of recovering remains from a mass disaster scene, examining remains in the mortuary, and completing the Interpol DVI forms
3. Instruction on best practice for recording, recovering and identifying fragmented, commingled and burnt remains from mass fatality incidents
4. Advice on selection and collection of DNA samples from highly disrupted and burnt remains

See the attached course flyer for more information.