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THIS WEEK WE’LL BE INTRODUCING OUR SIX FINALSITS
IT’S time to meet the super six. Over the next three days, we will reveal our final shortlist for the Evening Times Scotswoman of the Year 2017.
From an initial mailbag of dozens of nominations, the judging panel of representatives from the Evening Times and our generous event partner St Enoch Centre has whittled it down to an outstanding final half-dozen.
Today we reveal the first two names on the shortlist, with the other four being announced tomorrow and Thursday. The winner will be revealed at a glittering invitation-only gala dinner in the City Chambers on February 15. new forensic techniques such as identification of child abusers through vein and skin patterns of the hand.
In 1999 Professor Black headed the British Forensic Team’s exhumation of mass graves in Kosovo.
She has been deployed to aid with disaster victim identification in major events such as the Asian tsunami of 2004. She received a Damehood in HM The Queen’s 90th birthday honours last year.
Professor Black is also patron of Dundee University’s Women in Science festival, the only one of its kind in the world.
The festival celebrates the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and aims to encourage more young girls to consider a career in these subjects.
She said: “I am truly hon- oured to be shortlisted for the Evening Times Scotswoman of the Year award.” AS a respected broadcaster and best-selling writer, Sally is well-known across Scotland.
In 2013, she founded a charity which has changed the way people with dementia are cared for across the UK.
For the last five years Play- list for Life has quietly gone from strength to strength, challenging misconceptions and changing lives along the way.
The charity makes it possible for people with dementia to have access to meaningful music from their past. It has now provided training for more than 1,600 staff in 98 organisations and has won the backing of a wide range of health professionals – including GPs at a Glasgow