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Oral Presentations & Talks
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The Fast and the Shallow: Drone images for clandestine grave location
Computer Vision in Archaeology Training School, Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Funded through the ATRIUM Project’s Transnational Access (TNA) scheme, 15 September 2026 -
Tracking Microbial Change in Grave Soils: Preliminary findings from a longitudinal study at AFTER
Flash Talk, Microbiome Research Day hosted by the Microbiome Innovation Centre, University of Liverpool, 29 June 2026 -
Making your research matter: policy and practice engagement for doctoral researchers
LJMU Students at the Heart Conference, 16-17 June 2026 -
Computer vision for locating clandestine burial sites using UAV-image data School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Science Postgraduate Research Day. Liverpool, UK. 28 May 2026 Programme
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An Eye for Detail: Finessing my FameLab UK talk on finding forensic graves
LJMU Doctoral Academy PGR Festival, 19 May 2026. -
Eye in the Sky: Drones on the trail of the missing
FameLab NW, 24 March 2026 (NW Winner) -
Soil-ving the Case: Using microbes to find hidden graves
3MT HITS Faculty Finalist & People’s Choice Winner, LJMU, 2026 -
Clandestine grave detection and time since intervals – Where do we stand?
BAHID Webinar, 14 January 2026 -
Justice from the ground up
LJMU Research Knowledge Exchange Conference, 15 December 2025 -
More or less? A mini study comparing soil and forensic DNA extraction kits using variable soil inputs
School of Pharmacy & Biomolecular Science Research Day, 30 June 2025 (Winner).Programme -
Student research excellence: something to ASPIRE to
PGR Research Day, 30 June 2025 -
Bones, Drones & Microbes
Research Roasters Outreach Day, 5 November 2026 -
Finding the Missing
British Science Festival Liverpool X Research Roasters, 10 September 2025 -
Graveyard Shift
Merseyside Archaeology Society Lecture, 20 Feb 2025 -
Grave Matters
BioGrad, 10 May 2026 -
The Hidden Forensics (Cape Town)
University of Cape Town, 27 June 2024 -
The Hidden Forensics (Online)
UCT MS Teams Seminar, 26 August 2024 -
Lancaster Mine skeletal analysis
SAASC Student Development Workshop, 2015 -
Living on a Foothill
ASAPA Student Development Workshop, 2013
Poster Presentations
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Tracking Microbial Change in Grave Soils: Preliminary findings from a longitudinal study at AFTER
Flash Talk, Microbiome Research Day hosted by the Microbiome Innovation Centre, University of Liverpool (UK), 29 June 2026 (3rd Place) -
GRAVES: A framework for forensic research in victim identification and location
MDVI COST Action, IAFS Bulgaria, 2026 -
From decay to discovery: The necrobiome’s role in clandestine grave detection
AMI MMEG Southampton (UK), 16 December 2024 -
Unseen connections: Multidisciplinary approaches to human remains detection
BAFA Winter Conference OXford (UK), 2024 -
A bioarchaeological analysis of historic human skeletal remains recovered from the Lancaster Mine premises, Witwatersrand
ASSA Conference Bloemfontein (South Africa), 2016 -
Reconstructing the past: an analysis of inadvertently discovered skeletal remains and archaeological material from the Soutpansberg region.
ASSA Conference Parys, (South Africa), 2014 -
Reconstructing the past: an analysis of inadvertently discovered skeletal remains and archaeological material from the Soutpansberg region.
DST‑NRF Intern Research Day, Pretoria (South Africa), 2015 -
Living on a foothill: Archaeological investigations in Masebe Nature Reserve
ASAPA Biennial Conference Gabarone (Botswana), 2013
Science Communication and Outreach
Throw me in a ditch: An Archaeology Podcast — “The Past but Now”
Cherene de Bruyn with Annabell Orlando, 4 September 2023
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