BAHID Conference 2025

We are currently working on the details for the BAHID Winter Conference due to take place in November 2025. Please check back for more information. 

 

BAHID Webinar Series

Welcome to the Webinar Series, where a host of speakers from various avenues of Human Identification share their experiences, research and knowledge with our members and those with an interest in this field. 

 

 Wednesday 26th February 2025

Dr Kate Barnes

Forensic Entomology: The Fly Detectives

Flies might not witness a murder but they can provide temporal, spatial and sometimes causal information about the death. This talk will take you through a fly's journey of finding, colonising and developing on a dead body and the information they can provide to a forensic entomologist.

Dr Kate Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Biology at the University of Derby. Her research is focused on the areas of forensic entomology and taphonomy and centres around using insects in minimum time since death estimations. She is currently exploring how the environment influences blowfly activity and oviposition with a view to better understanding the pre-colonisation period and more accurately determining species-specific colonisation times and the effect of habitat and deposition scenarios on insect succession.

This webinar is free to attend for all. Please register at the following link: Webinar Series 2025: Kate Barnes 

Registration closes on Tuesday 25th February with the links sent out for the Zoom Meeting Room the morning of the webinar. 

 

Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Dr Hebe Unwin

Forensic Smile Analysis: Can selfies be used to identify a person, in lieu of standard antemortem odontological data?

Join us for an insightful webinar on the accuracy and accessibility of smile photography analysis in aiding human identification, presented by Hebe R. Unwin, an Associate Lecturer in Forensic Investigation at Plymouth Marjon University, specialising in Forensic Anthropology. We will discuss it’s past, real-world applications at present, and future in aiding investigations, especially in cases of Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) and migrant DVI. Learn about the potential of smile photography analysis to provide cost-effective, non-invasive, and globally applicable solutions for identifying individuals when traditional methods fall short and discuss where Hebe’s research may lead next.

This webinar is free to attend for all. Please register at the following link: Webinar Series 2025: Hebe Unwin 

Registration closes on Tuesday 22nd April with the links sent out for the Zoom Meeting Room the morning of the webinar. 

 

Feedback from the previous events:

'Thank you for organising such a fantastic conference. It had a really good range of speakers and there was a really friendly feel to it.'

'Just to say how much I enjoyed the weekend in Manchester and to congratulate you on putting on such a good meeting, both scientific and socially. I was really impressed by the genuine research going on and the obvious enthusiasm behind it.'

 Thank you so much for a great weekend. The talks were great and it was a lot of fun catching up with some old and new faces!'