Steven J. Walden is a film theorist and social historian, UK certified forensic anthropologist, Royal Society of Biology chartered biologist, and registered intellectual disabilities nurse. He is a PhD advisor with wide ranging research interests, holds PhDs in forensic anthropology and film history, and currently teaches intellectual disabilities nursing at the University of South Wales, Pontypridd, where he is a member of several research groups and works with the USW Cold Case Unit on found human remains casework.