Ms Lucy Hyde

Lucys research interest blend her passions for anatomy, history and art seamlessly -  the use of artistic and illustrative methods and skills in learning complex anatomical structures, as well a communicating to various audiences from schools outreach to complex surgical planning. 

Lucy’s current research focusses on the skeletal and skull collection within the School of Anatomy, with the aim of uncovering more about who our unknown anatomy subjects are and bringing the faces of such subjects to life to acknowledge and memorialise their contribution to the anatomical education of thousands of students passing through the doors of the Bristol dissection room.  

Her research aims to bring the unknown faces of the dissection room to life, through a series of facial reconstructions utilising both anthropological and anatomical assessment, mixed with artistic skill, to create the closest possible scientific likenessof a past subjects whose skeletal remains are housed within the School. These unknown subjects memoralises the many unrecognised subjects and invaluable silent teachers on who’s shoulders we stand and stand as an effective memorial.  

The long term aims of the wider project are to assess and catalogue the skull collection at Bristol, with particular interest in the historical pre HTA, pre records skulls within the School, with the hope to uncover more about who our unknown anatomy subjects are, and bringing further faces of our Bristol anatomy subjects to life; to acknowledge and memorialise their contribution to the anatomical education of thousands of students who have passed through the doors of the dissection room.