Caroline M. Wilkinson FRSE (born 27 October 1965) is a British anthropologist who has been a professor at the Liverpool John Moores University's School of Art and Design since 2014. She is best known for her work in

forensic facial reconstruction Forensic facial reconstruction (or forensic facial approximation) is the process of recreating the face of an individual (whose identity is often not known) from their skeletal remains through an amalgamation of artistry, anthropology, osteol ...

and has been a contributor to many television programmes on the subject, as well as the creator of reconstructed heads of kings Richard III of England in 2013 and

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of Scotland in 2016. Wilkinson holds a PhD in facial anthropology from the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

(2000), and from 2000 to 2005 led the Unit of Art and Medicine at the university. Between 2005 and 2014 she taught at the University of Dundee in the award-winning Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, where from 2011 she was Professor of Craniofacial Identification and Head of Human Identification. She first became known to television audiences as a result of her regular appearances on the BBC series ''

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'', and also appeared on ''

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'' while working at the

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(2005 – 2014).

Facial reconstruction

In 2013, Wilkinson created a facial reconstruction of King Richard III, whose remains had been uncovered in a car park and positively identified using DNA. In December that year, Wilkinson created a facial reconstruction of Saint Nicholas, working from anatomical knowledge, tissue depth data, and the latest reconstruction technology. From his skeletal remains, it was known that his broken nose had "healed asymmetrically, giving him a characteristic nose and rugged facial appearance". In 2016, Wilkinson helped create facial reconstructions of

, using a skull believed to have belonged to the Scottish king. Two versions were created, one standard one and another based on the belief that he had suffered from

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. She is the author of several works on the subject of facial identification and depiction.

Awards

In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was awarded the 2013 RSE Senior Prize for Public Engagement. Wilkinson was awarded the Combined Royal Colleges medal of the Royal Photographic Society in 2016, for "outstanding contribution to the advancement of medical photography or medical imaging."

Works

*"Juvenile forensic facial reconstruction – a detailed accuracy study" (with Whittaker, DK). ''Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the International Association of Craniofacial Identification'', Bari, Italy; 98-110 (2002) *"Measurement of eyeball protrusion and its application in facial reconstruction." (with Mautner, SA.) ''J For Sci'' 48 (1) 12-16 (2003) *"The reconstruction of faces showing healed wounds."(with Neave, RAH) ''J Archaeological Science'' 30; 1343-1348 (2003) *"The relationship between the soft tissues and the skeletal detail of the mouth." (with Motwani, M and Chiang, E.) ''J For Sci. 48'' (4) 1-5 (2003) *"In vivo facial tissue depth measurements for White British children". ''J. Forensic Sci'' 47 (3): 459-465 *''Forensic Facial Reconstruction'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008) *"Craniofacial Identification" (Cambridge University Press, 2012) Co-editor.

References

External links

Faculty page
at Liverpool John Moores University * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilkinson, Caroline 1965 births Living people Alumni of the University of Manchester British anthropologists British women anthropologists Academics of the University of Dundee Academics of Liverpool John Moores University