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 Elisabeth Alton, FFLM Safeguarding Lead

Dr Remy Bahl, FFLM Assistant Academic Dean

Dr Anjan Bannerjee, FFLM General Forensic Medicine Lead

Dr Iain Brew, FFLM Registrar and SDS Clinician Representative

Dr Bernadette Butler, FFLM Immediate Past President

Dr David Carson, Scottish Representative

Dr Elaine Cook, FFLM Vice-President – Legal Medicine

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

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

Dr Laura Dean, FFLM Forensic Science Subcommittee Co-Chair

Dr Deryn Evans, FFLM Academic Dean

Samanatha Fenoulhet, FFLM Conference Lead and Deputy Registrar

Dr Sandy Fielding, FFLM Chief Examiner

Dr John AM Gall, FFLM Expert Witness Lead

Dr Joanne Gifford, RCPCH

Dr Alex Gorton, FFLM President

Dr Amy Hamm, FFLM Treasurer and Forensic Science Subcommittee Co-Chair

Zoe Lane, Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Dr Jonathan McAllister, FFLM Vice-President – Secure and Detained Settings

Fiona McCulloch, National Police Care Network (NPoCN)

Dr Helen Mills, FFLM Sexual Offence Medicine Lead

Prof Rachael Pickering, David Jenkins Chair 2026/27

Dr Libby Sevink, FFLM Vice-President – Forensic Medicine

Ms Jennie Smith, UKAFNP President

Samantha Thompson, College of Paramedics

Prof Cath White, Medical Director, IFAS

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.