This is a friendly reminder about the 8th Face Science Symposium that will take place on Tuesday, 17 November 2020 at 08h30, to start at 09h00 and to end at 13h00.

The Face Science Symposium is a joint research and support initiative between the Eyewitness Research Group (UCT, Department of Psychology), the South African Police Service, and Facial Identification Researchers and Practitioners. The initiative was formed in 2014, and we have held a conference every year since. 

The format is different this year because the symposium will be hosted online.

We aim to have between 5 and 7 speakers, depending on the number of keynote speakers. All presentations will be 20 minutes long, with 5-10 minutes for questions/discussion.

There is no cost involved; therefore, it is free to attend or to present.

To register for the conference, as a delegate or a speaker, please go here:
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Registration as a delegate closes on 12 November.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 30 October.

We want to ensure a range of topics, therefore submission of an abstract is not a guarantee that you will be presenting. Therefore, we will confirm with you (between 30 October and 5 November) if your abstract submission was successful. Registration as a delegate is immediately successful.

Previous topics include police interviewing techniques, eyewitness memory for multiple perpetrator crimes, interviewing witnesses, reconstruction of faces from skulls), drawing techniques for faces, different tools for constructing composites, and person recognition from CCTV footage.

Please share this e-mail far and wide. We are not limited by physical borders this year, so we can accommodate international delegates and attendees. Our original intention for this collaboration was to foster discussion and research between researchers and practitioners who are interested in questions and issues about faces.  Therefore, as always, we would like a mix of presentations, ranging from academic topics (from different departments), in-field experience/case studies/cases, and practical presentations.

Please do not RSVP to me personally; instead, RSVP through the link above. If you have questions or issues, then you are welcome to e-mail me. 

Thanks in advance, and looking forward to spending the day with you at the virtual symposium.

Kind regards,
Alicia Nortje