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
Sakura blossoms in full bloom on the Keele university campus.
#springblossom #keeleuniversity #sakura
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
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. ✋🚨
From digital vans to burning tankers!
Our #ForensicScience student on our Crime Scene to Court modules had their practical assessments in the outer reaches of the #KeeleUniversity campus, where they are involved with the #FireInvestigation and #CrimeSceneInvestigation of a fire scene.
Highlights included over a dozen #KeeleUniversity attendees, three posters from undergraduate researchers (also their first conference ever!), three posters from our PhD students, and a talk from our recently viva'd George!
With the dawn on #engineering at #KeeleUniversity we're also seen interest in #biomechanics. One example being Hector Allen's project which is using a novel combination of #microCT density analysis and #3Dscanning to reconstruct joints of the deceased from their #SkeletalRemains. Amazing stuff!
In the pictured lab our #forensics students worked to extract chemicals from blood and urine samples, and in the case of the urine do an acid hydrolysis to remove any metabolic conjugates that may have been present so the drug was all in the same form to be compared and analysed.
#KeeleUniversity
We can't wait to meet the next cohort of students from Texas this summer and do it all again for our 2026 summer school!
#collaboration #international #HigherEducation #forensics #KeeleUniversity #aafs2026
Last week the #KeeleUniversity #ForensicScience team was out in force for #InternationalWomenandGirlsInScience, with talks and stalls across events at #KeeleInTown in Newcastle, and Home Farm on campus.
This event is always a great opportunity to showcase our work and inspire the next generation!
In this image three droplets of artificial blood have landed on a surface at 70 degrees. The resulting stain is therefore long and thin and flowing in the direction of the slope. The longer and thinner the stain the steeper the slop that the droplet lands on.
#Forensics #KeeleUniversity
Huge congratulations to #PhD student in #ForensicAnthropology and #DentalAnthropology Olga Nechyparenka (also demonstrator and tutor at #KeeleUniversity!) for being awarded a Pollitzer Award from the Amercian Association of Biological Anthropologists!
#AABA2026 #BiologicalAnthropology
Happy New Year!
It might be encroaching on mid-late January, but we are now all back and ready to get back to teaching all things #ForensicScience next week! As such we're now back and active on our socials to bring you all the latest updates from #Forensics at #KeeleUniversity starting this week!
We're almost at the Winter break making it all the more amazing this week to get to celebrate the annual #KeeleUniversity Excellence awards.
Huge success again this year in the #ForensicScience team with six awards! Massive congrats to Charlie, Charlene, Ellen, Jamie, Kris, and Chloe!
Cas' project is utilising industry grade biodegradable moulds to mimic human body density, and 3D printed carnivore skulls to create predatory marks. The aim of the project to create a environmentally friendly and sustainable method for human remains predation studies.
#KeeleUniversity #Forensics
We've got a new member of #forensicscience staff at #keeleuniversity this December - Tracey Elfidence! You can follow their ongoing daily adventures over on our #instagram and #facebook stories!
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#ElfOnTheShelf #Forensics
🎉PUBLICATION NEWS💀
Fantastic news to start the penultimate week of this calendar year at #KeeleUniversity with a fresh new article out from our #ForensicAnthropology #Research team!
This time from #ForensicScience PhD student George Goodison and supervisor Dr Chris Aris in JFSE!
Your Library Year, Wrapped!
🚪You stepped through our doors
💻 Borrowed laptops
📖 Devoured books
📱 Streamed eBooks
📂 Explored Special Collections & Archives
📅 Booked your Library Education Centre appointments
Thank you for making us part of your learning journey this year! 💙
#KeeleUniversity
Keele University has put out a statement to mark 60 years since its #chapel — which it describes as “the first religious building in the country designed specifically for shared Christian worship” — was dedicated
#keeleuniversity #architecture #churchnews
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!
Last week members of our team attended the The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences' 2025 conference: 20:20 Vision ‘Learn from the past, but don’t live there’
#ForensicScience #CSI #Teaching #Pedagogy #KeeleUniversity
The weather is looking up at the weekend, so come join us on our beautiful #keeleUniversity campus for our last #OpenDay of 2025 this Saturday!
We'll be giving talks on all our courses in #ForensicScience, #ForensicBiology, and #ForensicChemistry, as well as tours of our labs and scene houses.
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
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
To round off last week we were delighted to host the West Midlands Institute of Physics at Keele for their meeting and talk (amazingly titled!): "Charged with Evidence: The Physics Behind Forensic Science"
#ForensicScience #Physics #BloodSpatter #KeeleUniversity #InstituteofPhysics
Led by Dr Chris Aris and Cora Cisan (#Histopathology PhD Student and Demonstrator in Forensic Science), the students developed their tissue ID skills, ahead of a diagnostic histology and soft tissue histology lab at Keele Medical School.
#Forensics #Teaching #KeeleUniversity
Catherine and colleagues investigated the association between dental caries and cardiovascular disease. While more biomedical in nature, Catherine is now lending her talents to #forensic #research at #KeeleUniversity, highlighting the cross over between these two fields.
These awards shine a spotlight on the innovation-led organisations, businesses, not-for-profits and charities that have benefitted from the suite of innovative support programmes that are available from #KeeleUniversity. So we were delighted to see one of our team recognised in such an amazing way!
Python is a powerful tool that will soon help them tackle real-world forensic challenges, building skills that will be important elements of the Forensic Science toolkit in the future.
#Forensics #Coding #KeeleUniversity
This weekend we had our annual #OpenDay weekend at #KeeleUniversity. With the charge led by Dr Sue Shemilt, Lecturer and Admissions Tutor for #ForensicScience, our Saturday and Sunday team got to meet hundreds of enthusiastic and keen visitors!.....
