Face Lab LJMU

We’re exited to be part of this event at British Science Festival 2025 in Liverpool!

The Forensic Research Institute is hosting a Murder Mystery event. A series of forensic experts will present evidence relating to a victim and her murderer and you can use your investigative powers to determine who she was and who killed her. The case is fictional but the research is real. An interactive Whodunnit! The event features experts from the fields of face recognition, CCTV analysis, anthropology, genealogy, psychology, policing and drones.

📅 Saturday 13 September
⏰ 16:30 – 18:15
📍 The Black-E – Main Space, Liverpool
✅ Free but ticket required. Book now!
🔗 https://britishsciencefestival.org/events/?_sf_s=Forensic&_sft_category=experiences

The latest project from Liverpool John Moores University Face Lab ventures into the extraordinary funerary practice of fusing masks to the faces of the dead, practised by many pre-Columbian peoples of South America.

➡️https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2025/8/13/demasking-the-dead

Face Lab expertise 'demasks the dead' LJMU Face Lab's latest project ventures into the extraordinary funerary practice of fusing masks to the faces of the dead, practised by many pre-Columbian peoples of South America.