Contact Dr Mark Viner
- Tel: +44 7956 340325
- Email: m.viner@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Safety, Resilience, Risk & Reliability
Background
Dr Mark Viner has over 40 years鈥� experience as radiographer and radiology manager in London hospitals. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Forensic Radiography at 美姬阁 Forensic Institute and Senior Tutor in radiography at Barts and The Royal London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. He was formerly Chief Executive of the Inforce Foundation, a charity promoting development of international standards and training in the forensic investigation of war crimes and mass fatality incidents.
He is a founder board member of both the International Association of Forensic Radiographers (IAFR) and the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI) and a founder editorial board member of the Journal of Forensic Imaging. He has worked as an advisor to The Government Office for London, The Home Office and the UN International Criminal Court. He is internationally recognised for his work in forensic radiography and has published many scientific papers and textbook chapters including co-editing the second edition of the standard text 鈥淏rogdon鈥檚 Forensic Radiology鈥�. He gained his PhD by Published Work in 2020 in the development of standards and standard operating procedures in forensic radiography.
From 1996-2001 he co-ordinated the forensic radiography team for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, undertaking 14 tours of duty in the field. He has also worked as forensic radiography consultant in the Balkans, Sierra Leone & the Irish Republic and for high profile cases in the UK including several terrorist incidents, co-ordinating the radiography response to the 2005 London Bombings.
In 2009 he co-coordinated the radiography service for the Oxford Archaeology investigation of four mass graves and the subsequent identification of deceased British and Australian service personnel who fell at the battle of Fromelles in northern France in 1916. The project was commissioned and funded by the Australian Department of Defence and the UK Ministry of Defence and overseen by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and resulted in the inauguration of a new WWI Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in 2010.
Mark is a registered forensic practitioner, a member of the Chartered Forensic Science Society, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the British Association for Forensic Odontology. He holds the Diploma of Forensic Medical Sciences and the Diploma of Forensic Human Identification. He was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship and the Fellowship of the College of Radiographers in 2005, the Gold Medal of the Society and College of Radiographers in 2010 and Honorary Membership of the IAFR in 2020.
Research opportunities
Forensic Radiography, Disaster Victim Identification, Forensic Human Identification, Forensic Odontology, Archaeological Radiography
Research collaborations in Forensic & Archaeological Radiology & Imaging in association with;
Dept of Forensic Medicine, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa,
Bio-Archaeology Research Institute, Quinnipiac University USA,
Virtopsy Project, University of Zurich, Switzerland,
Institute of Legal Medicine & Forensic Sciences, Charit茅-Universit盲tsmedizin Berlin, Germany
University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
University of Staffordshire
University of Vilnius, Lithuania
Queen Mary University of London
Museum of London
Oxford Archaeology
Harvard University
Cambridge University
Current activities
Senior Tutor, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary College, University of London
Founder Board Member, past Vice Chair of The International Society of Forensic Radiology & Imaging
Founder Member, First Chair & Committee Member International Association of Forensic Radiographers
Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Forensic Radiology & Imaging
Director & Consultant Forensic Radiographer, Reveal Imaging Ltd
Board Member, British Society of Dental & Maxillofacial Radiology
Forensic Radiography Advisor to the United Nations International Criminal Court
Team leader, UK Forensic Radiography Response Team
Member UK National Disaster Victim Identification Team
Forensic Radiographer team member for Kenyon International Emergency Services
Advisor to the Bioarchaological Imaging Institute, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, USA
Member of The American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Science
Fitness to Practice Panel member for the UK Health Care Professions Council.
Clients
UN International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia
UN International Criminal Court
UN Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone
UK Home Office
UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Iraq Special Tribunal
Government Office For London
Government of St Helena
Metropolitan Police
S Yorks Police
Nottinghamshire Police
Dorset Police
State Pathologist of the Irish Republic
Oxford Archaeology / Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Museum of London
Kenyon International Emergency Services
Centre For International Forensic Assistance
Special advisor for film & television productions
