Events
Northumbria University Centre for Forensic Science (NUCFS) organises monthly colloquia to provide investigators, scientists and policy makers with analyses and insight into practice and ethics in the use of science in the Criminal Justice System. Scholars, scientists, professionals and students with an interest in the broad set of issues regarding forensic science are cordially invited to participate.
Who: Dr Carole McCartney (Leeds University)
What: Ensuring Integrity
When: Wednesday 30 May, 4.30-6.00pm
Where: Ellison Building, room A114, Northumbria University, City Campus, Newcastle upon Tyne
Who: Mick Neville (Metropolitan Police)
What: Forensic Images
When: Wednesday 20 June, 5.00-6.30pm
Where: Ellison Building, room TBC, Northumbria University, City Campus, Newcastle upon Tyne
Who: Dr Robert Green (University of Greenwich)
What: TBA
When: Wednesday 27 June, 5.00-6.30pm
Where: Ellison Building, room A114, Northumbria University, City Campus, Newcastle upon Tyne
For more information, please contact: victor.toom@northumbria.ac.uk
Past NUCFS events:
Prof Angela Gallop - Cold Case Investigations (March 2012)
Dr Michael Bromby - Lexis (Nexis) Forensics: A Tale of Two Forensics (Feb 2012)
Prof James (Jim) Fraser - Forensic Science: Imagination, Rhetoric, Reality (Jan 2012)
Andrew Rennison (Forensic Science Regulator) - Reply to the Scottish Fingerprint Enquiry (Jan 2012)
Dr Anika Ludwig - The Effective Use of Forensic Science (Dec 2011)
Prof Robin Williams - Enacting Forensic Science (Nov 2011)
Dr Eleanor Graham - Low template DNA profiling: What are we seeing? (June 2011)
Dr. Simon Cole – Forensic Identification Techniques: Validity, Error, Expression of Results, and Scientific Culture (Annual lecture May 2011)
Dr. Ken Fowle – The science, the technology, the law (April 2011)
Prof. Martin Evison – Inaugural lecture: Forensic Science: a Science at the Edge of Uncertainty (Inaugural lecture, March 2011)
Dr. Tim Clayton – Expert Evidence: the changing legal environment; comments by Dr. Michael Stockdale (March 2011)
Prof. Tim Wilson – The end of the FSS and the future of UK forensic science (February 2011)
Dr. Chris Maguire – Familial searching: Is this a step too far? (January 2011)
Prof. Martin Evison – If you think that’s me on CCTV: Prove it! (December 2010)
Prof. Tim Wilson – Borders, Boundaries and Misconceptions: The Forensic Sciences and the Reduction of Ambiguity (Inaugural lecture, November 2010)
Prof. Robin Williams – The Forensic Imaginary. A Sociologist’s Perspective on Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation (Inaugural lecture, October 2010)
Inaugural Conference: Forensic Science in the 2010s: How to Survive a Difficult Decade? (June 2010)
