Events
AAPT Annual Educational Event (AEE) and AGM 2026
The Annual Educational Event (AEE) is a one-day conference specifically designed to support and enhance the professional development of Anatomical Pathology Technologists (APTs), mortuary assistants, and other related professionals.
The experiences of APTs can vary widely depending on workplace, specialty, and geographical location. This event provides a valuable platform to bring everyone together in a safe, confidential, and supportive learning environment. It also offers the opportunity to network with like-minded colleagues, as well as professionals you may not otherwise have the chance to meet.
Our commercial exhibition is always a popular feature of the event. Delegates can engage directly with industry representatives to explore the latest products and innovations, and gain a clearer understanding of how they are used in practice. This is particularly beneficial when preparing business cases to support the upgrade or modernisation of mortuary facilities and equipment.
The event concludes with a dedicated opportunity to socialise, allowing attendees to share experiences, reflect on challenges, and learn how others have approached similar situations. This relaxed setting provides well-earned downtime and valuable peer support. Many delegates use this time to reconnect with colleagues met at previous AAPT or related events, debrief on the year, and discuss shared challenges and practical solutions with others who truly understand the unique nature of the role.
The 2026 Annual Educational Event will take place on Saturday 26 September 2026 at the Mercure Sheffield St Paul’s Hotel & Spa, 119 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 2JE.
All events
- Dead men don’t talk - forensic pathology help or hindrance
- Calling All Mentors 2018
- Post mortem reconstructive surgery course
to- Guidelines for non-forensic autopsy practice
- South East Regional workshop
- Adult Cardiovascular Pathology
to- DVI Training Event
- AAPT Conference 2018
- Consent Training 2018 Wigan
- New Psychoactive Substances
to- Paediatric Autopsy Pathology Course
- Mortuary Managers Study Day 2018
- Mass disasters: victim identification and the aftermath
- Post Mortem Reconstruction Surgery
to- BAHID Summer Residential Conference
to- Annual Educational Event 2019
- Forensic anthropology in the UK – past, present and future
- To Bodies Gone; History of 130 Years of Anatomy at the University of Dundee
- Medical Examiner Officer Face-to-Face training
- DVI awareness training - **POSTPONED NEW DATE TBC**
- Medical Examiner Update 2020
- Winter Laboratory Preparedness Webinar
- AAPT Webinar - Medical Examiner Network
- COVID-19 post mortem experience webinar
- Pathology and the Environment
- Investigation and Learning from Deaths in NHS Trusts
- AAPT Webinar COVID-19 post mortem cases study
- CPD Focus Evening
- Introduction to Professional Registration /Competence Framework Masterclass
to- Annual Educational Event (AEE) 2021
- Investigation and Learning from Deaths in NHS Trusts
- Health Inequality Lab: Health & Social Care Bill and more
- A wartime mystery - the case of a lifetime Dr Suzy Lishman CBE
- Death and Sociology
- Diploma Course in Forensic Human Identification
to- Diploma in Management of the Dead (DipMoD)
to- Mortuary Managers and Senior APTs study event 2022
- Aerosol spread of disease and its prevention
- APTs in Conflict Zones
- Celebration Meeting (20 years of the AAPT)
- CPD Focus and Professional Registration Event for members
- Forensic Quality Assurance - What impact will this have on post mortem processes
- IBMS COVID-19 Symposium 2023
- Diploma Course in Forensic Human Identification
to- Diploma course in Management of the Dead
to- The Mentor Experience
- Annual Educational Event 2023
- Northern Symposium: Pathology and People
- AAPT Webinar for Members Diatom analysis in forensic science
- HTA Winter Pressures Webinar
- Death certification reforms - improving death certification and patient care
- AAPT Mortuary Managers & Senior APTs study event March 2024
- Eden Users Group meeting 12th April 2024
- Post mortem reconstructive surgery course
to- Consent Training via Zoom
to- RSciTech Masterclass 5th September 2024
- Annual Educational Event 2024 Glasgow
- AAPT Webinar 'Findings from British autopsies throughout history'
- AAPT Consent Training November 2024
to- AAPT RSciTech Masterclass
- AAPT Webinar Challenges in post mortem sample collection for DNA analysis: HTA licence and guidance
- The Future of Apprenticeships webinar
- AAPT Mortuary Managers & Senior APTs study event 21st March 2025
- AAPT Consent Training June 2025
to- AAPT RSciTech Masterclass 4th September 2025
- SORSA–IAFR 2025 Congress
to- Science Apprentice Conference 2025: Shaping Your Future
- OCSO Healthcare Science Webinar
- AAPT Annual Educational Event 2025
- AAPT Consent Training November in 2025 over Zoom
to- Mortuary Managers & Senior APTs study event December 2025
- Calling All Mentors 2018
