Course: Introduction to Forensic Science

Wait – where did Roles come from? It isn’t in the CoPRRR mnemonic! Quite correct, but we had to illustrate the potential complexities of scene examination, and how these are …

By now we should all understand the importance of control and preserve, and be able to reflect on how well (or otherwise) these principles are followed in the case video. …

What is it that we are going to preserve, and how will we do this? Part of the answer is that there is a blurring of control and preserve, and …

This is a brief video that deals with the first of the 5 principles – Control. None of the five is less important than any of the others but we …

You now have a tool, but what do you do with it and is it enough on its own? The Introduction opens by defining the purpose of forensic science. It …

Many thanks everyone who voted in the survey poll. You provided lots of well reasoned arguments for your decisions and we can now reveal the verdict. In the case against …

We begin the introduction by giving a brief glimpse of the wide variety of investigations that could reasonably be included under the umbrella title of “forensic science” but are not …

What we see here is close to what happened in the real-life incident that our case is based on. It should appear a little chaotic – real crime scenes are …

During the 6 weeks of the course we will be using a case study as a mechanism to demonstrate the various learning points that we will cover. Our ‘Murder by …

My name is Ms Laura Reaney and I am a Teaching Associate in the Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Strathclyde. I have over 10 years’ experience working …

At the University of Strathclyde, we have been teaching forensic science since 1967, delivering one of the oldest and most respected Masters degree programs in the discipline worldwide. University staff …