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Forensic SIG event
University of Leicester, 27th June 2013: Forensic Science Innovation in the UK. See the event page for details.
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University of Reading
18th June 2013: Dead Man Talking - a day-long conference on the investigation and identification of skeletal remains. Only £40 for a student ticket - see the website for further details and to book.
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JDiBrief website launched!
JDiBrief is an online library of one-page briefing notes about crime and
security problems, and analytical techniques that can be applied to
understand them better.
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Research
The UCL JDI Centre for the Forensic Sciences is a hub for collaborative links between a wide range of departments and researchers, with the aim of developing focused multidisciplinary responses to key issues within the academic discipline and its wider implications for the judicial process and public debate. The Centre seeks to foster innovation in both the development of the academic discipline and the practice of the forensic sciences.
There is a current research group comprising academics across UCL, and in conjunction with the SECReT programme the Centre supports postgraduate research students from MRes through to completion of their PhDs.
Research students
Nadia Abdul-Karim: The spatial distribution of post-blast RDX explosive residue - forensic perspectives.
Nabanita Basu: 3D reconstruction of crime scene from blood spatter using machine learning concepts.
Helen Brayley: Aiding and improving investigations into internal child sex trafficking within the UK - an intelligence and forensic approach.
Kelly Cheshire: The evaluation of geochemical analysis for forensic provenance evaluation and interpretation.
Helen Earwaker: The use of wet powder suspensions as part of a treatment sequence to develop latent fingermarks on semi-porous surfaces.
James French: The transfer, persistence and secondary transfer of trace forensic evidence - implications for crime reconstruction and forensic protocol using Bayesian modelling.
Sally Gamble: Detection of trace explosives in river systems - the relationship between physical evidence and intelligence.
Kate Gibson: Illicit firearm use and the role of firearm procurement and transfer networks in England and Wales.
Dagmar Heinrich: The chain of evidence - a critical appraisal of the applicability and validity of forensic research and the usability of forensic evidence.
Saravanan Kanniappan: Forensic human identification (DVI), crime scene investigation - homicide investigation.
Georgia McCulloch: Chemical analysis of the organic components of forensic soil samples.
Hester Miles: The development of analytical blood pattern analysis (BPA) techniques for environmentally altered bloodstains and an examination of the range and influence of visualisation methods available for BPA presentation in the context of jury decision making.
Sherry Nakhaeizadeh: Expert evidence and bias.
William Peveler: Research and development on nano-scale materials such as gold colloids, quantum dots with supramolecular functionalisation, for security applications, such as explosives detection and fingerprinting.
David Pugh: The use of semiconducting metal oxide gas sensors in rapid analysis of crime scenes.
Michaela Regan: Nanoparticles and how they can be used in forensic contexts.
Kirstie Scott: Forensic implication of the persistence and provenance of diatom evidence - impact on analysis and interpretation.
Rebecca White: Investigating methods for obtaining fingerprints from deceased individuals.
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