Faculty:Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care
School:Medicine
Location: Chelmsford
Research Supervision:Yes
With a passion for anatomy, Amanda has spent her career investigating embalming and long term preservation techniques applied to human cadavers for the use of teaching Gross Anatomy to clinicians and aspiring anatomists.
Amanda studied BSc (Hons) Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee, sparking her interest in the anatomical sciences. After graduating, she was appointed as an Anatomy Technician and Prosector at the University of Dundee. It was here that Amanda’s interest in the preservation of human cadavers was ignited.
As a technician, Amanda spent her time making prosections for the purpose of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking Gross Anatomy modules. As well as prosecting, she was involved in the daily running of the mortuary and dissection room, including the enforcement of health and safety procedures, Thiel embalming and cadaver maintenance.
Following her role as a technician, Amanda was awarded a Greenhouse PhD scholarship to undertake her research entitled Thiel Plastination: Improving the aesthetics and flexibility of traditional plastinated specimens, which she submitted in 2018. During this time Amanda was also an Anatomy Demonstrator and spent a short time lecturing undergraduate medical and dental students.
Amanda's research interests are focused around the use of human cadavers in the teaching of Gross and Clinical Anatomy.