• Conference 2009
• Public Debate
• Student Awards

Public Event

The conference 2009 kicked off with a public debate, a first for BAHID.
It took place on Saturday 06 June 2009, 5pm in Dalhousie Building Lecture Theatre.

Your identity. What is it, who owns it and how safe is it?

In our world of increasing globalisation and security awareness - isn't it ironic that we have no 'right' to our identity? Yet it is a part of our self that is under constant threat from theft and misappropriation as one of the fastest growing crimes in the western world. This public debate was jointly hosted by the University of Dundee and the British Association for Human Identification and was be chaired by Alan Cochrane, Scottish Editor of the Telegraph. Through a lively question, answer and debate format he steered the audience and the panel of experts through many aspects of our identity - cultural, historical, political, legal, religious and biological. Panel members were Donald Findlay QC; Caroline Wilkinson, facial anthropolgist; Sue Black, forensic anthropologist and Baron Paul Leckie, Industrialist and philanthropist.

The public were invited to submit questions for discussion on this subject to the panel beforehand.

The debate featured in the University of Dundee's "Contact" magazine (page 23)

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