The team at BSMS: Dr Aiden Jayanath, Dr Dominic O'Brien, Hollie Cartwright, Dr Micha Koenig, Prof Claire Smith, Laura Arnold, Danya Stone, Matt Bemment and Prof Malcolm Reed

The Anatomy team at BSMS attended the Advance Higher Education awards on Thursday 28 September in Birmingham. The team won the Collaborative Awards for Teaching Excellence award for ‘Broadening the reach of Anatomy Education’ through their involvement in the My Dead Body documentary.

Advance HE said: “The Anatomy team have adopted groundbreaking approaches to widening access to anatomy and clinical education. The generosity of body donors, new technology and the establishment of the Public Display licence enabled the development of dedicated teaching sessions and the documentary My Dead Body, which has had a positive influence on millions.”

The ground-breaking documentary My Dead Body is to re-air on Channel 4 on Monday 9 October, 10 months after it first aired to much critical acclaim. Charting the life of Toni Crews, My Dead Body tells the story of Toni’s illness with cancer before and after her death, narrated in her own words.

The programme shows the dissection of her body during a series of educational workshops filmed with the Anatomy team at BSMS, a joint venture between the Universities of Sussex and Brighton.