Academic Committee

Academic Committee Meeting Dates

The current Chair of the Academic Committee is Dr Deryn Evans

Should you like to contact the chair please send an email to forensic.medicine@fflm.ac.uk

Committee members

Dr Remy Bahl, Assistant Academic Dean

Dr Iain Brew, Registrar and SDS Clinician Representative

Dr Bernadette Butler, President

Dr David Carson, Scottish Representative

Dr Elaine Cook, Vice-President – Legal Medicine

Jessica Davidson, Nursing in Justice and Forensic Steering Committee Chair, Royal College of Nursing

Stacey Day, Vice-President – Allied Healthcare Professionals and Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Lead

Dr Anton van Dellen, Assistant Registrar and Conference Subcommittee Chair

Dr Deryn Evans, Academic Dean

Dr Sandy Fielding, Chief Examiner

Dr Michael Freeman, Research Subcommittee Chair and David Jenkins Chair 2024/25

Dr Joanne Gifford, RCPCH

Dr Alex Gorton, Less Lethal Weapons Lead, President-Elect

Dr Amy Hamm, Treasurer

Prof Paul Marks, Immediate Past President

Dr Libby Sevink, Vice-President – Forensic Medicine

Prof Carol Seymour, Specialty Advisory Committee Chair

Jennie Smith, UKAFN President

Prof Margaret Stark, Forensic Science Subcommittee Chair

Samantha Thompson, College of Paramedics

Dr Marie-Elle Vooijs, Sexual Offence Medicine Lead

The terms of reference of the Committee are set out in the Standing Orders of the Faculty, as follows:

To consider all matters relevant to the examinations of the Faculty.
To report the results of the Faculty’s awards following examinations.
To consider all matters relating to the award of Diplomas, Licentiateship & Membership of the Faculty.
To refer to the Membership and Fellowship Committee applications for Membership falling outside the current Regulations.
To consider all matters relating to the formulation and interpretation of the Regulations for Membership.
To recommend to the Board the appointment of representative(s) to examination Boards established by other bodies, for examinations which have been approved by the Board as being of value, or interest, to the specialty where those bodies have sought such appointment, or where it is thought to be in the interest of the Faculty.
To determine the syllabus for each Faculty examination, appoint examiners and appoint a committee, or committees, to arrange and supervise the Faculty’s examinations.

To consider all matters relating to research with which the Faculty may be associated.
To prepare an annual budget of projected income and expenditure for consideration by the Treasurer and Senior Officers.
To recommend fees for examinations and to recommend payments to examiners for consideration by the Senior Officers.
An officer will be appointed by the Committee to be responsible for the budgeting for the costs of the examinations.
To develop a U.K. research agenda for forensic and legal medicine. The agenda will reflect any nationally agreed research priorities and the need to develop evidence-based forensic and legal medical practice.
To identify suitable research topics to implement the research agenda.
To advise the Faculty on strategic direction of forensic and legal medical research.