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I am currently employed at the Leverhulme Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee as Principal Investigator Education and Training in forensic science, prior to this I worked at the award winning Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification as a Senior Lecturer in charge of MSc courses. I also ran the award-winning National UK DVI training. I taught undergraduate and postgraduate students and supervised their research projects as well as providing input into both senior police and SOCO training courses.
I am a practising forensic anthropologist and have undertaken a wide range of casework in this capacity. One of my areas of specialty is in the identification of age in the living for the purposes of assisting investigations in asylum seekers and refugees, and I have passed the proficiency test in age estimation as set by the Study Group on Forensic Age Diagnostics of the German Association of Forensic Medicine. I have authored a chapter in a recent text on this subject, am co-editor on two texts on human identification, have peer reviewed publications and have authored a large number of book chapters. I supervise PhD students in various projects including the analysis of heat exposed bone, age estimation from MR images and the comparison of epidermal and dermal fingerprints.
I hold an MSc in Biological and Forensic Anthropology and a PhD in Forensic Anthropology. I am a consultant on the Virtual Anthropology Service run by the University of Dundee providing coverage for police forces throughout Scotland and N. Ireland on a daily basis.
I have given expert evidence in both Scottish and English courts on a number of occasions in relation to both trauma analysis, identification and age estimation. I have been recognised as a member of the Home Office, UK Disaster Victim Identification response capability. I am a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a Member of the Royal Society of Biology. I am chair of the Forensic Anthropology committee for the Royal Anthropological Institute and I am professionally accredited at FA1 Level with the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) and am a registered forensic expert on the forensic expert database of the National Crime Agency
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Projects
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In Search of Uniqueness - Harnessing Anatomical Hand Variation: H-Unique
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
1/01/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
Research Output
Colour Change Exhibited by Defleshed and Fleshed Porcine Ribs, Exposed to Temperatures 0-1000°C
Houston, A., Hackman, L. & Cunningham, C., 27 May 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Epidermal desquamation in Thiel-embalmed cadavers and its potential use in fingerprint research (oral presentation)
Dzetkulicová, V., Langstaff, H. & Hackman, L., 14 Jun 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Other
Evaluation of the applicability of regression equations for sorting commingled remains on 3-Dimensional bony elements from CT scans
de Simone, S. & Hackman, L., Aug 2019, In : Forensic Science International. 301, p. 160-165 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Guidelines for best practice: Imaging for age estimation in the living
Doyle, E., Márquez-Grant, N., Field, L., Holmes, T., Arthurs, O. J., van Rijn, R. R., Hackman, L., Kasper, K., Lewis, J., Loomis, P., Elliott, D., Kroll, J., Viner, M., Blau, S., Brough, A., Martín de las Heras, S. & Garamendi, P. M., 1 Mar 2019, In : Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging. 16, p. 38-49 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Open Access
File
2
Citations
(Scopus)
40
Downloads
(Pure)
Identification of human remains using comparison of dermal-epidermal fingerprints collected from Thiel-embalmed bodies (oral presentation)
Dzetkulicová, V., Hackman, L. & Langstaff, H., 23 Dec 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Other
Datasets
Cervical vertebrae measurements
Kaeswaren, Y. (Creator) & Hackman, L. (Creator), University of Dundee, 30 Jan 2020
DOI: 10.15132/10000152
Dataset
File
Prizes
2020 Stephen Frye Award
Hackman, Lucina (Recipient), 10 Jan 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
ACPO Police Commendation for UK DVI Training
Hackman, Lucina (Recipient) & Black, Sue (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Other distinction
Chief Constable High Commendation
Hackman, Lucina (Recipient) & Black, Sue (Recipient), 14 Oct 2016
Prize: Other distinction
Gold Engage Watermark for Public Engagement
Nic Daeid, Niamh (Recipient), Michael Marra (Recipient), Doran, Heather (Recipient), Roy Mudie (Recipient), Adegoke, Oluwasesan (Recipient), Klu, Joyce (Recipient), Comrie, Emma (Recipient), Cole, Christian (Recipient), Menard, Herve (Recipient), Hackman, Lucina (Recipient), Gray, Alexander (Recipient), Barros, Magda (Recipient), Dennison-Wilkins, Lorna (Recipient), Dzetkulicová, Veronika (Recipient), Galais, Virginie (Recipient), Houston, Andrew (Recipient), Inman, Keith (Recipient), Kuffel, Aga (Recipient), Laisney, Oceane (Recipient), Sobreira, Catarina (Recipient), Yu, Sean (Recipient), Zuppello, Micol (Recipient), Menzies, Simon-Lewis (Recipient), Daly, Laura (Recipient), Marj Davis (Recipient), Paul McFadyen (Recipient) & Loic De Carvalho (Recipient), 4 Dec 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
File
Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education
Hackman, Lucina (Recipient), 2013
Prize: National/international honour
Activities
Maturation of the distal end of the femur: a novel approach for the analysis and data visualization of T1 weighted MRIs of the distal end of the femur for age estimation in the living purposes
Micol Zuppello (Speaker), , Lucina Hackman (Contributor), & Sue Black (Contributor)
13 Mar 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Fires, Bones and Tricky Decisions
Niamh Nic Daeid (Speaker), , Lucina Hackman (Speaker), , Emma Comrie (Speaker), , Rolf Black (Organiser), & Shona Donaldson (Host)
3 Mar 2020
Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
Inspiring Stories from Women in STEM Storytelling Night
Heather Doran (Organiser), , Amy Cameron (Organiser), , Amy Rogers (Speaker), , Lucina Hackman (Speaker), , Zoe McElhinney (Speaker), , Caroline Hall (Speaker), , Laura Daly (Speaker), & Doreen Cantrell (Speaker)
11 Mar 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - festival/exhibition
Crime Cafe: Lord Lovat's last resting place
Heather Doran (Organiser), & Lucina Hackman (Speaker)
26 Mar 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
File
UK-FI
Lucina Hackman (Speaker)
28 Jan 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press / Media
Crime Cafe Dundee 2019
Heather Doran, Lucina Hackman, Alexander Gray, Herve Menard & Niamh Nic Daeid
15/03/19 → 16/03/19
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
Corstorphine Hill body
Caroline Wilkinson, Lucina Hackman & Sue M. Black
1/07/13 → 17/07/13
31 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Mummy returns to Elgin
Lucina Hackman & Caroline Wilkinson
25/09/12
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
http://www.dundee.com/news/dundee-experts-crimewatch-tonight.html
25/10/10
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218842/Bag-bones-motorway-nightclubber-Melanie-Hall-went-missing-13-years-ago.html
9/10/09
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other