Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee

CAHID’s Dr. Tobias Houlton is presenting in Gwangju, Korea, for the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists this week!

Last weekend some CAHID UG and research students went along with Dr Garcia-Donas to the Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe symposium held in Amsterdam! We presented oral and poster communications on age estimation and histomorphometry, and won a prize for one of the oral presentation! 👏

Relic Rally - Archaeology Children’s Activity for the Festival of the Future 2024!
Get ready to uncover hidden treasures and solve puzzles at Relic Rally - the ultimate archaeology activity for the young adventurer.

When: Thursday, October 10 · 12 - 2pm
Where: University of Dundee Botanic Garden

Find out more and book your place here:

Relic Rally: An Archaeology Activity - Festival of the Future 2024 Get ready to uncover hidden treasures and solve puzzles at Relic Rally - the ultimate archaeology activity for the young adventurer.

Check out this great collaborative paper "Dental damage: Creating 3D anatomical models to illustrate destructive effects on human teeth" - a collaboration between staff and students at the Centre for Forensic and Legal Medicine and Dentistry and CAHID.

Dental damage: Creating 3D anatomical models to illustrate destructive effects on human teeth Forensic odontologists often must identify human remains with damaged teeth. This damage is due to high-impact accidents, violence, or disasters. This…

Fantastic work by MSc Medical Art student Annette Robert!

Save the date! It’s been all hands on deck getting set up for the 2024. The MSc Medical Art and Forensic Art & Facial Imaging students have been busy setting up their final show. It will be open from August 24th for 9 days so why not visit and see the amazing the work for yourself!

Check out this this new paper (open access) by MSc Medical Art alumni Muireann McMahon and Dr Caroline Erolin on Biomimicry – medical design concepts inspired by nature:

Come and work with us. We are looking for a lecturer in anatomy to come and join our wonderful team. We are looking for a candidate with a track record of excellence in teaching and scholarship/knowledge exchange in gross anatomy.

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This is a reminder that the CAHID Greenhouse PhD scholarship deadline is approaching (17th June 2024)! More information of eligibility here

Greenhouse Research Studentships 2024/2025 | University of Dundee, UK A PhD project at the University of Dundee

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A fantastic opportunity for a PhD studentship in CAHID! Follow the link to learn more about this 4 years research scholarship https://buff.ly/453JvZK

Check out this great oppourtnity for a Technical Assistant at the Surgical Skills Centre, in the University of Dundee Medical School: https://buff.ly/3V5igus
Applications close on May 31st.

Job advert: Great job suitable for our graduates out there. Junior anatomist with Primal Pictures helping to create and fact check learning resource content.

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CAHID were out in force today.
Dr Julieta Garcia-Donas and 2 of our PhD students Corrina and Eszter ran a stall at a Family Fun event in Kirkton Community Center in Dundee!!
Meanwhile we welcomed some of our offer holders to campus for an open day with some of our amazing level 4 students acting as ambassadors.

Come and work with us. We are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as an Anatomy Technician. This is a fixed term appointment until 31 December 2024. Would really suit any of our graduates or those who have completed an anatomy degree.

For job description https://www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us and search for Anatomy Technician.

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Great work by MSc Medical Art student Tejeswini Padma:

Student Recreates The Face Of Indian Goddess .php?utm_content=buffer2c54b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook : News Student recreates the face of Indian Goddess Published On Fri 8 Dec 2017 by Dominic Younger A student on the University of Dundee’s Medical Art MSc, which attracts people from around the world, has brought a new face to the studios, that of Kali the Indian Goddess of War. Tejeswini Padma, from Ban...

Hamish is on the road again. He's gone state side for the American Association of Biological Anthropologists in Los Angeles. He's been checking out a few of the sites and been on the 2nd shortest tram in the world and made to feel small at the Broad museum.

Sad day today as our 4th year forensic anth students had their last lab before they graduate. They did at least get to have some fun with a mini DVI scenario.

One of our graduates has co-organised a webinar series. BeFRAIL aims to introduce and contextualise research related to the study of epidemics and diseases through the assessment of human remains and their contexts. Some amazing speakers will be presenting over the next few months. Do check it out.
https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/befrail-webinars-tickets-856980129637

Job advert: Anyone looking for work in the US. One of our graduates is working for Massachusetts General Hospital in their mortuary team and they have some open positions. Do check them out

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Hamish has been meeting up with some of our amazing graduates at AAFS.
Ella Butler is a deputy coroner in South Carolina, Brittany Wexler is an autopsy tech in Memphis and Katie Sieber is doing behavioural criminalistics with Ontario police.
Then he went to see one of our more recent graduates Hannah Messersmith present.

Hamish is on his travels again. This time he's on route to Denver (in the care of Dr Catriona Davies). He's got his morning coffee and is about to board. Watch this space for his travel updates as he heads off to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Hamish has got his passport out again. As if Australia wasn’t enough travel for our CAHID mascot, he will be accompanying Dr Catriona Davies to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) 76th annual conference in Denver, Colorado from the 20th to 25th February. If any potential applicants or current applicants are in the area and would like to meet up to ask/answer any questions you have about our courses, or just Hamish’s travel plans…(he’s off to California next month!) then please let us know! If any alumni are in the area, give us a shout too as it would be great to catch up with you all and see how you are getting on in your post-Dundee careers!

Hamish was back on the road this weekend. He took a trip with Dr Langstaff and some students down to the British Association for Forensic Anthropology - BAFA conference in Wrexham (Wales). Well done to our UG students Maja Beck and Margarethe Becker who both did presentations and Donald Irvine Roca and Yvonne Fryiou who presented posters on their dissertation research. He's back at work now but a little tired after battling the trains strikes and bad weather to get back, but he's got his tea and is helping to mark exams.

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Hamish was back at work bright and early today. We hope you enjoyed following his adventures. He'll be off to another conference in December (British Association for Forensic Anthropology) and will be sharing his adventures again so do follow us to keep up to date.

Hamish is a bit disheveled after 3 planes and being awake for 38 hours but he's finally back in Scotland.

Hamish is ready to leave Aus. Checked in, refreshed and ready to board. Catch you in just over 28hours.

Hamish's last day at the conference today. He started the morning by meeting a friend, then checked out the exhibition space and got involved with some of the vendors. Then he had a browse of the digital posters and on the way out got in the mood for Christmas. To celebrate the last full day he took a little boat trip across the harbour. Keep following for the last day and travel home tomorrow.