And not only did we have so many people from #KeeleUniversity presenting, but Catherine was also accepted to give a podium presentation, and Chelsea was awarded the Best Student Poster Prize!

Huge well done everyone!

Specifically we had the following people and projects:

Olga - childhood trauma dental analysis
Cora - forensic skeletal histopathology
Theo - sale of human remains investigation
Chelsea - modern fossil fraud
Catherine - dentine diagenesis

The students firstly did a #fieldwork scatter practical where they sketched and took measurements of an outdoor skeletal remains scene.

The students then got to work in our #teaching labs and produce a biological profile on the skeletal remains they had learned to recover.

...and a similarly huge shout out and thanks to everyone from our #Forensics team who involved: Chris Aris, Cora Cisan, Becky Walton, and Vickie Cartwright.

This is a massively unique experience we are able to offer to both our undergraduate and postgraduate students, to both help develop their skills sets and career opportunities. Huge thanks to Dr Rachael Door and her team for facilitating and supporting our use of your facilities...

In the second week our students work in the medical school's histology and microscopy suites, learning about soft and hard tissue histology, and diagnostic histopathology in forensic investigations.

At the conference our Lecturers in Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic Science Sue Shemilt and George Handley presented on their work using ThingLink to create virtual substitutes of crime scenes to be used along in situ teaching as part of a blended learning style approach.

You can find out more and sign up here:

www.keele.ac.uk/study/openda...

This module is available to all #Forensic, #Chemistry, and #Physics students in their first year and those coming up from #FoundationYear, and focusses on looking at science from an interdisplinary lens, and understanding the importance of community engagement.

This year Julie from 'JMS Accelerant Search' ran a demonstration of the burn simulation. She showed our students how a scene search is conducted with Frankie which is trained to detect traces of accelerants.

We also got to meet the next generation of Tobacco detection dogs!

After the burn we also then work with detection dogs.....come back Thursday for more on that! (and yes there will be puppy pics!)

#DogsWithJobs

Following on from this our postgraduates undertake a #forensic fire scene excavation, recovering and analysing exhibits, thus producing and evidential statement in prep to present their evidence as an expert in court.

#ForensicScience #FireInvestigation #KeeleUniversity

John and Dave conduct the burn and provide live educational input around the fire spread and subsequent smoke patterns as it happens in real time in our arson facilities on campus.

On our Crime Scene to Court module our students will later apply these skills in both our Crime Scene House and Forensic Simulation Centre on campus in mock real life scenarios, and even in simulated scene assessments.

#Forensics #Photography #ForensicPhotography #CSI #KeeleUniversity