Following our successful pilot scheme, SHAPE Involve and Engage programme has returned. If you are a UK-based researcher in the humanities and social sciences and would like to apply, you can find out more here: https://bit.ly/47XA41y

This evening we had the great pleasure of hosting @mrk87.bsky.social and @jessiliu.bsky.social from @facelabljmu.bsky.social. They showed us how to go from a skull to a digital avatar 💀 🫅. Thanks for coming along and the audience who joined us 🤩

Join myself and @jessiliu.bsky.social tonight in Chester to hear more about @facelabljmu.bsky.social’s research!

Join us next week to hear from the research group that analyses, authenticates, & depicts the faces of significant historical figures using skeletal remains, death masks, and portraits!
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📆9th Sept
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Looking to do a PhD with Face Lab X Computing @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social?

Project Title: Prediction of the missing mandible from the cranium
Deadline: 1st Nov, 2025.
Interview date: the 25th Nov, 2025.

Application link: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Very interesting to hear all other scientific analysis of the masked skulls. We hope this multidisciplinary team continues to further study this interesting population and their cultural significance.

Explore the Bolivian mummy collection on sketchfab: sketchfab.com/munarq

Viv is a second year PhD @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @facelabljmu.bsky.social presenting some results from her fieldwork from Bolivia. Their project aims to produce representation of ancient Bolivian faces, through participatory co-design, involving local communities in the decision making process.

We have a whole session on the overmodeled skulls tomorrow afternoon at the World Mummy Congress! Not only facial depictions, but all other scientific analysis of the remains.

Our PhD student Viviana Conti will be presenting her project “Integrating participatory praxis for ethical museum dissemination of ancient human remains: The case of the Bolivian National Museum of Archaeology - Munarq Mummy Collection.” www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

The latest project from LJMU's 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

Colombia masked skulls:
Facial representation of an indigenous population from the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, Cal 1216-1797 AD. Presented by @jessiliu.bsky.social at the World Mummy Congress in Cuzco, Peru this week.

Exhibiting the facial representation of Colombia masked skulls at the World Mummy Congress in Cusco, Peru.

Great day at Maidstone Museum with @mrk87.bsky.social doing some public engagement showcasing the process of facial depictions from skulls.

Work trip ❤️

New staff profile: profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/9403-jessica...

Here at the @britishacademy.bsky.social #BAECRN #ECRNetwork event at Lancaster Uni.

The Face Lab team have produced a facial depiction of a medieval King from Portugal, and he was revealed on January 07, 2025 in the Monastery of Saint Dinis and Saint Bernard in Odivelas, Portugal, to commemorate the 700th anniversary of his death.

@facelabljmu.bsky.social Xmas Dinner - delicious!