This year we'll be giving talks at Nantwich Museum (in Nantwich), Mellards Bar Limited in Newcastle, and Tom's Tap and Brewhouse Ltd Tap in Crewe!
Visit the Pint of Science website to see the full line-up of speakers and ticket links: pintofscience.co.uk
Over 450 events will be happening in over 180 watering holes and cafes across 45 cities in the UK, as the world's largest festival of public science talks returns.
@pintofscience.uk
A good half a dozen of the #KeeleUniversity #forensicscience team are participating in The Pint of Science UK festival this year!
The festival will see thousands of scientists and researchers bring their discoveries out of their workplace and into a pub, café or community hall near you. #pint26
It was great to meet all the attendees and we hope to see you all again in October!
#highereducation #openday #keele #KeeleUniversity #forensicbiology #ForensicChemistry
In total we had 5 lecturers, 2 PhD candidates, and 2 current student ambassadors there to run the day, meaning that all attendees (both prospective students and parents/guardians) were able to experience a broad range of activities and ask any and all questions.
On Saturday we welcomed a group of our offer holders back for an Applicant Visit Day!
With members of our team spanning all areas of #forensicscience applicants were able to experience #CSI and #ballistics in our simulation centre, and #fingerprinting and #forensicanthropology back in the lab.
AABA abstracts are published so congrats on the publications both! Also extra congratulations to Catherine who won an Outstanding Presentation Award for her research.
#AABA2026 #BiologicalAnthropology #ForensicBiology #research #forensics #DentalAnthropology #KeeleUniversity
Amazing to see our PhD Candidates in #ForensicAnthropology and Demonstrators in #ForensicScience, Olga Nechyparenka and Catherine Roberts, who had abstracts accepted and recently presented oral presentations at this years American Association for Biological Anthropology conference in Denver.
All the equipment available to our students includes all manner of analytical kit, furnaces, 3D scanners and printers. This year this has seen projects spanning #DNATesting, 3D #ballistics, and #biomechanics.
These areas are designed to mirror real world #forensics research settings, helping students develop professional skills across the full range of forensic disciplines from #chemistry, to #CSI, to #anthropology and #biology.
Dedicated to our #masters student research these new facilities include both a wet research laboratory and a dry lab project space, giving our students the ideal environment to carry out their independent research.
Now the Easter break has started at #KeeleUniversity we've had the chance to photograph are new #forensicscience Student Research labs!
#forensicanthropology #ForensicChemistry #forensicbiology #highereducation #ForensicResearch
What a month! Huge congrats to all our colleagues and collaborators involved!
You can find links to all the articles below:
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🐷 And finally our colleagues at Wrexham Uni, published work in the Medicine, Science and the Law in #Collaboration with our own Dr Chris Aris, titled: 'Impact of body size on decomposition rate in juvenile-sized remains: An experimental animal study'.
🦷 Next we had another of our PhD candidates, Catherine Roberts, publish the first article of her PhD research in the Journal of Forensic Sciences titled: 'Variations of dental diagenesis between submerged and buried samples over the first postmortem year in clandestine environments'.
💀 First we had our very own George Goodison who had her 5th piece of research from her PhD published in the #policing journal. Titled 'Human or non-human? The usefulness of a workshop in tackling the challenges faced by Police on the identification and classification of skeletal material'.
🚨PUBLICATIONS ALERT🚨
March was an amazing month for research coming out of #forensicscience at Keele University, specifically this time for #forensicanthropology with three papers now available online in #OpenAccess!
And as a bonus, unsuspecting passengers on the number 25 #KeeleUniversity campus bus were treated to the sight of students dragging limp bodies across campus — strictly for educational purposes, we promise.
#forensics #forensicbiology #forensicbiology #plantlife #csi #crimesceneinvestigation
Back in the lab, students swapped mannequins and analysed the vegetation stuck to the clothing and hair to determine which route their classmates had taken. Not your typical lab session, but a brilliant way to learn how plant evidence can reveal a victim’s movements or place a suspect at a scene.
....hauling (while practicing good manual handling practice!) well-dressed crime scene mannequins across campus so the poor plastic souls could collect leaves, twigs, and whatever else nature threw at them.
Last week our #ForensicScience masters students got to get some time away from the lab and breath in some fresh air for their #ForensicBotany practical. Working in groups, students first mapped the plant life in an assigned area on campus, then came the fun part.....
Being able to identify tool marks on bone is key skill required by anthropologists as they can provide critical information in a #ForensicInvestigation, such as reconstructing the events leading to death, linking injuries to specific tools, and contributing to search and recovery strategies.
Getting to the point (literally) our masters students got to take a closer look at tool marks on bone, armed with a selection of animal bones that had been creatively traumatized by PhD candidate Amy Heath and her collection of knives, saws, hammers, screwdrivers and mallets.
To mix things up from setting things on fire, this week we've broken out the tools from the shed for some #ForensicAnthropology advanced trauma analysis. All thoroughly risk assessed and with ethical approval of course!
#Teaching #KeeleUniversity #Forensics
Look fun? Have an offer to study with us? Well there's still time to sign up for our last applicant day of the year on the 11th April! #keeleuniveristy
www.keele.ac.uk/study/openda...
A number of our program directors were also there to take questions from family and friends of the applicants while the applicants themselves got to work across our many forensic #teaching facilities.
Applicants across our #ForensicChemistry and #ForensicBiology courses also got the chance to run #DNA lab profiling, #BloodSpatter analysis, and #ForensicAnthropology skeletal analysis according to their particular area of interest 💀🧬🩸
This weekend we had the second of our Applicant Visit Days at #KeeleUniversity!
With a large number of our team there, our #ForensicScience applicants were able to experience #CSI in our specialist simulation centre, and #Fingerprinting and #Anthropology in the lab. ✋🚨
Its also never a fire scene practical without the most popular members of the team....the fire dogs!
(and our organiser and Lecturer in Crime Scene Investigation George Handley!)
Our students get fully kitted up and are assessed on their ability to assess the scene, collect evidence, and analyse it back in the lab. Later this semester they'll even presenting their reports in our campus courtroom to simulate the real life practice of #forensic reporting officers!
