The Centre for Forensic and Medical Art
The Centre for Forensic and Medical Art has been formed from a dynamic collaboration between the School of Life Sciences and the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Forging a link between these two disciplines the Centre's work has widespread applications, including human identification, archaeological investigation, medical illustration and museum & media exhibition.
The Centre is perhaps most well known for work in facial reconstruction, the process of rebuilding a face from the skull, both to aid forensic identification and archaeological investigation.
Research is at the forefront of the Centre's values and facial reconstruction methods are constantly evaluated and refined with regards to accuracy, reliability and reproducibility. In addition the Centre undertakes related research in facial recognition, anthropology, anthropometry and taphonomy.
Staff members are trained in a range of art skills from the traditional to state-of-the-art technologies. These include the application of virtual reality sculpture systems for facial reconstruction. The Centre provides forensic and medical art services both in-house and to the wider community.