Dr Manisha Dayal

• Qualifications
• Biography
• Research
• Selected Publications
• Grants/Current Projects
• Teaching Interests
• Awards/Honours
• Professional Activities

Qualifications

PhD (Med), MSc (Med), BSc Hons, BSc (MedSci)

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Biography

Dr Manisha Dayal started at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) as a Lecturer in February 2010. Prior to that she was employed by Curtin University of Technology, Perth where she taught anatomy in the Physiotherapy Program. Manisha completed her PhD in 2009 from the University of Adelaide. Her academic career started at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Research

• Forensic anthropological standards
• Age estimation from skeletal remains
• Retention of Anatomical knowledge
• Variations of anatomical structures

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Selected Publications

Dayal, M.R., Kegley, A.T., Strkalj, G., Bidmos, M.A., & Kuykendall, K.L. (2009). The history and composition of the Raymond A. Dart Collection of Human Skeletons at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 140(2):324-335.

Dayal, M.R., Steyn, M., & Kuykendall, K. (2008). Stature estimation from bones of South African whites. South African Journal of Science, 104:124-128.

Dayal, M.R., Spocter, M., & Bidmos, M.A. (2008). An assessment of sex using the skull of black South Africans by discriminant function analysis. Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 59:209-221.

Eklektos, N., Dayal, M.R., & Manger, P.R. (2006). A forensic case study of a naturally mummified brain from the bushveld of South Africa. J Forensic Science, 51(3):498-503.

Dayal, M.R., & Bidmos, M.A. (2005). Discriminating sex in South African blacks using patella dimensions. J Forensic Science, 50(6):1294-7.

Bidmos, M.A., & Dayal, M.R. (2004). Further evidence to show population specificity of discriminant function equations for sex determination using the talus of South African blacks. J Forensic Science, 49(6):1165-70.

Asala, S.A., Bidmos, M.A., & Dayal, M.R. (2004). Discriminant function sexing of fragmentary femur of South African blacks. Forensic Sci Int., 145(1):25-9.

Bidmos, M.A., & Dayal, M.R. (2003). Sex determination from the talus of South African whites by discriminant function analysis. Am J Forensic Med Pathol, Dec;24(4):322-8.

Thackeray, J.F., Loth, S.R., Laing, M., Swanepoel, E., Dayal, M.R., & Lubbe, K. (2000). Comparison of Sts 5 ('Mrs Ples') and Stw 53 ('Early Homo') from Sterkfontein, South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 96:21.

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Grants/Current projects

Human anatomical variation.

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Teaching Interests

• Forensic anthropology
• Skeletal biology
• Musculo-skelatal anatomy
• Neuroanatomy

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Awards/Honours

International Postgraduate Research Scholarship - University of Adelaide.
 

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Professional Activities

Member of:

• American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• American Association of Physical Anthropologists
• Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society
• Anatomical Society of Southern Africa

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