Sue Black
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Professor Sue Black (b. 1961) was born in Inverness in Scotland. She was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and then achieved undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Aberdeen.
In 1987 she took up the post of lecturer in Anatomy at St. Thomas' Hospital, London which started her career in forensic anthropology and commenced a partnership with Louise Scheuer.
In 1999 she became the lead forensic anthropologist to the British Forensic Team in Kosovo, deployed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on behalf of the United Nations. She was awarded an OBE for her services to forensic anthropology in Kosovo.
She published Developmental Juvenile Osteology with Louise Scheuer in 2000, and four years later, The Juvenile Skeleton. These books remain core reading for all students of osteology.
Sue Black is head of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee which runs undergraduate courses in forensic anthropology and postgraduate courses in Human Identification.
Sue is lead assessor for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners, a Director of the Centre for International Forensic Assistance and a founder of the British Association for Human Identification. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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