Dr Samuel Rennie
- Interim Deputy Head of Department - Life & Environmental Sciences
- Christchurch House C107, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Samuel Rennie is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Investigation in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at Bournemouth University.
He is a Biological and Forensic Anthropologist with interests in both Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) and Palaeomigration of the Americas. He completed his PhD in Biological Anthropology in 2018 at Liverpool John Moores University where he focussed on sex estimation of skeletal remains using multivariate statistics and their effects on population specific standards.
Sam has worked as a forensic anthropologist and search and recovery specialist in DVI incidents on an international and national platform. He is a certified Forensic Anthropologist (FA-III) in the UK and a member of the UK - DVI Forensic Anthropology Cadre.
The other side of his research is biostatistics, or more precisely the application of multivariate analysis and how they can be used within biological anthropology and other fields of research.
Research
Current research areas:
1) Validating methods used for biological profiling within forensic anthropology
2) 2D/3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis
3) Palaeomigration of the Americas
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDG:
Peace, justice and strong institutions
"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels"
