The Highcliff Hotel, Bournemouth
Wednesday 11th, Thursday 12th and Friday 13th July 2001
14.15
Opening of Conference by the President of the Society, the Rt. Hon. the Earl Grey
14.30
Review of Process Guidance Notes - What the Future Holds, Mr Bernard McHale, Secretary, Federation of British Cremation Authorities
15.15
Manufacturers' Open Forum, Mr Andrew Mallalieu, Technical Director, Facultatieve Technologies Ltd and Mr Andrew Buckley, Director, Furnace Construction Co Ltd
19.00
Welcome Evening and Viewing of Exhibition
9.30
Changing Hindu Attitudes to Cremations in the UK, Dr Shirley Firth BA (Notts), MA (Surrey)
10.15
Cremation or Burial of Body Parts, Revd. Peter Speck, Chaplaincy Team Leader to Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust, Dr Ryk James, Senior Lecturer, Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Institute of Pathology, Royal Infirmary, Cardiff, and Ms Julie Dunk M. Inst. BCA, Bereavement Services Manager & Registrar Bournemouth Crematorium, Representing Bournemouth Borough Council
11.15
"Break Out" Session and Coffee
11.30
Discussion
14.30
Cremation in Iceland, Mr Th�rsteinn Ragnarsson, Director, Capital Area Cemeteries
15.00
Cremation in Australia, Mr Coman Reynolds, Principal, Gympie Funeral Services
15.30
Pacemaker Explosions at Crematoria, by Dr Christopher Gale, St James's University Hospital, Department of Medicine for the Elderly
16.00
Bronze Age CremationJacqueline McKinley B. Technology, MIFA, FSA (Scot)
9.30
Shipman & Others: Current Inquiries Bearing on Cremation, Stephen R G White MSc, BA, Visiting Lecturer, Cardiff Law School, University of Wales
10.15
Office of Fair Trading - Investigation into Funerals, Debbie Samosa, Office of Fair Trading
11.00
Body Parts & Bereavement, Mr Brian Langrick, Manager, Alder Centre, Royal Liverpool Childrens NHS Trust
11.45
A Symbolic Space: Rural Myth, the Great War and the Growth of Cremation, Lisa Kazmier PhD Candidate, Rutgers University
14.30
Dentists & Mercury, Mrs Angela Kilmartin, Founder of Patients Against Mercury Amalgams
15.15
Presidents' Panel
Harvey Thomas C.B.E., Member of Council of Cremation Society, Moderator
Terry Bastock, President, Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors
Ian Hussein, President,Institute of Burial & Cremation Administration
Karen Petersen, President, National Association of Funeral Directors
Patrick Gallagher, President, British Institute of Funeral Directors
Andrew Hawley, Acting President, National Association of Memorial Masons
Paul Babington, President, Funeral Standards Council
16.00
Closing of Conference
19.30
Conference Banquet
