Samuel Rennie

Dr Samuel Rennie

  • u_srennie at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Senior Lecturer in Forensic Investigation
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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/Physical Anthropology in 2018 at Liverpool John Moores University where he focussed on sex determination of skeletal remains using multivariate statistics and their effects on population specific standards.

Sam is has worked as a forensic anthropologist and search and recovery specialist in DVI incidents on an international platform. During his time at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), he assisted in the analysis of human remains for forensic casework. 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

Journal Articles

  • Rennie, S.R., Eliopoulos, C. and Gonzalez, S., 2023. Evaluation of the obturator foramen as a sex assessment trait. Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology, 19 (2), 146-153.
  • Stinnesbeck, W. et al., 2020. New evidence for an early settlement of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico: The Chan Hol 3 woman and her meaning for the Peopling of the Americas. Plos One, 15 (2).
  • Irish, L., Rennie, S., Parkes, G. and Williams, A., 2019. Identification of decomposition volatile organic compounds from surface deposited and submerged porcine remains. Science & Justice.

Conferences

  • Rennie, S.R., Gonzalez, S. and Johnson, J., 2019. Tracking early human migrations through the Americas. In: American Association for Physical Anthropology.

Profile of Teaching UG

  • International Investigations (Unit Lead)
  • Osteomechanics: Form, Function and Variation in the Human Skeleton (Unit Lead)

Grants

  • Ancient Migrations through the "Mesoamerican Corridor" (ACORN, 01 Feb 2022). Completed

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • CPD Workshop
  • CPD Workshop
  • Ixchel (Chan Hol III): Her meaning to the Peopling of the Americas

Conference Presentations

  • American Association of Physical Anthropology, Cranial Morphological Variation in the Americas: Where does Mexico fit in?, 11 Apr 2018, Austin, Texas, USA
  • American Association of Physical Anthropology, A Preliminary Analysis on the Cranial Variation within Prehistoric Mexico, 19 Apr 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  • American Association of Physical Anthropology, Geographic and temporal variation in morphological sexing traits of the pelvis, 13 Apr 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • American Academy of Forensic Science, A new statistical approach to morphological sexing of South African remains, 24 Feb 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Qualifications

  • PhD in Biological/Physical Anthropology (Liverpool John Moores University, 2018)
  • BSc (Hons) in Forensic Anthropology (Liverpool John Moores University, 2012)

Honours

  • Forensic Anthropologist (Cert FA-III) (Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), 2021)

Memberships

  • Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, Member (2021-),
  • British Association for Forensic Anthropology, Member,
  • Royal Anthropological Institute, Fellow,

External Media and Press