Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome
The Baroness Black of Strome | |
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Black at the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival, 2017 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 17 May 2021 Life Peerage | |
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| Born | Susan Margaret Gunn 7 May 1961 Inverness, Scotland |
| Political party | None (crossbencher) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Identification from the Human Skeleton (1986) |
Susan Margaret Black, Baroness Black of Strome (née Gunn; born 7 May 1961) is a Scottish forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. She was the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and is past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. From 2003 to 2018 she was Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee. She is President of St John's College, Oxford.
She was inducted to the Order of the Thistle in Edinburgh on 3 July 2024.