2004 - 2006 PG Cert HE. Kingston University 2003 - 2009 PhD Anthropology. UCL 2000 - 2001 MSc. Forensic Archaeological Sciences. UCL 1997 - 2000 BA Hons Archaeology and Anthropology. Oxford University

Social, political and ethical considerations in the investigation of war and human rights abuses. The archaeological and anthropological investigation of 20th century conflict, particularly the Spanish Civil War and World War I. The relationship between memory and physical evidence in the investigation of the traumatic past. Media and popular representation and understanding of exhumation and forensic science. Methods of human identification. I also supervise undegraduate and MSc research in aspects of forensic anthroology, in conjunction with the Centre of Human Bioarchaeology at the Museum of London, concerning methods of skeletal identification, life history reconstruction, nutritional and occupational stress markers, and skeletal and dental pathology.

Renshaw, Layla (2013) The dead and their public. Memory campaigns, issue networks and the role of the archaeologist in the excavation of mass graves. Archaeological Dialogues, 20(1), pp. 35-47. ISSN (print) 1380-2038 Renshaw, Layla (2010) The scientific and affective identification of Republican civilian victims from the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Material Culture, 15(4), pp. 449-463. ISSN (print) 1359-1895 Renshaw, Layla (2009) Uncovered: reversals of exposure and concealment in Spain's memory politics. New Literary Observer: Anthropology of Closed Societies, 100,