Speakers

Experience & expertise

Dr Julie Roberts is a Chartered forensic anthropologist and archaeologist with over 25 years of UK and international experience. She has a PhD in the subjects of forensic anthropology and archaeology, and an MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology.

Julie is currently employed as Scientific Advisor, senior forensic anthropologist and archaeologist at Forensic Access (part of Analytical Expert Labs). She is also an Associate Professor in Forensic Anthropology at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), where her research interests include optimising opportunities for victim identification in complex mass fatality incidents, multidisciplinary approaches to achieving positive identifications in long-term unidentified remains, and post-conflict analysis of deaths resulting from war crimes.

As a practitioner, Julie specialises in the search, excavation and identification of human remains from scenes of crime, war zones and mass fatality incidents. She has extensive experience in the analysis and interpretation of burnt and fragmented remains, and has received a number of police commendations for her work in this area.  Julie is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), member of the RAI Forensic Anthropology Committee and Examination Board, and past Chair of the British Association for Forensic Anthropology (BAFA). She is a member of the Interpol DVI Pathology and Anthropology Sub-Working Group, and Chair of the UK DVI Forensic Expert Group.