SCHOOL OF FORENSIC AND INVESTIGATIVE SCIENCES

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1 SCHOOL OF FORENSIC AND INVESTIGATIVE SCIENCES

2 Wecome to the Schoo of Forensic and Investigative Sciences The Schoo of Forensic and Investigative Sciences strives to be internationay-recognised for exceence in teaching and research, providing an unrivaed student experience in order to equip highy-vaued graduates for ifeong achievement in the goba market. As the argest schoo of its kind in the UK, we cover a diverse range of subjects: forensic investigation; poicing; crimina investigation; chemistry; forensic chemistry; forensic bioogy; fire safety and engineering; forensic anthropoogy; archaeoogy. We have we-estabished research centres in the areas of materias science, fire and hazards science, investigation and eadership, and archaeoogy that underpin our consutancy and educationa offerings across their discipines. Our reputation has aowed us to recruit many professionas from forensic science, the poice and fire and rescue services, as we as word-eading academic researchers. This combination of staff aows us to buid on the many years experience of senior practitioners and new research deveopments at the cutting-edge of the discipines. We are very proud of our faciities and these have recenty been enhanced by the opening of our new 12.5-miion J B Firth Buiding to support our capabiity in chemistry and fire safety and engineering. In addition, our state-of-the-art resources incude three crime scene houses, a vehice examination area, a bood spatter pattern anaysis suite, dedicated aboratories for the search and recovery of evidentia materias, forensic anthropoogy, forensic bioogy and genetics and forensic entomoogy, together with a Moot Court Room, interview suites and fied provision for anthropoogy and archaeoogy. Throughout the year we run a number of open days at which you can meet staff and students, obtain more information, tour our faciities and gain an insight into ife in the Schoo and at UCLan. More information is avaiabe on our website at Dr Aison Jones Dean of Schoo

3 THE LARGEST OF ITS KIND IN THE UK, THE SCHOOL has five interreated divisions: UCLan Forensic Sciences UCLan Poicing UCLan Chemistry UCLan Archaeoogy UCLan Fire

4 Like UCLan Forensic and Investigative Sciences UCLAN FORENSIC SCIENCES Our degree courses incude speciaisms such as: crime scene investigation forensic genetics and entomoogy forensic anthropoogy forensic chemistry A courses have been accredited by the Forensic Science Society and our teaching staff incude eading academics and former senior crime scene investigators. Crime scene investigation Fingerprint recovery and identification, crime scene photography, the anaysis of hairs, fibres, too marks, bood spatter patterns, and much more. UCLan was the first university in Britain to use crime scene houses for studying purposes. We now have three interconnected scene houses as we as a garaged vehice examination bay, a arge office premises crime scene, and a bood spatter pattern anaysis suite. Our dedicated Criminaistics Laboratory is equipped with cutting-edge microscopy and anaytica equipment. A students on forensic science courses take modues in crime scene investigation. Forensic BIoogy Locating bioogica evidence, bood groupings, DNA extraction and profiing, as we as estimating time since death from insect evidence. Practica casses take pace in our Forensic Bioogy and Forensic Genetics Laboratories, using the same technoogy as eading forensic science service providers. The Schoo aso has therma imaging cameras and two dedicated insect incubation aboratories. Forensic anthropoogy The process of post-mortem decomposition, how to excavate candestine graves and how to identify and anayse human skeeta remains. Our human skeeta teaching coections contain modern skeetons and archaeoogica popuations, as we as individua specimens and high-quaity casts. Two dedicated aboratories are equipped with the fu range of osteoogica instruments. Visit:

5 Forensic chemistry The examination of chemica evidence, arge-scae or trace, from a variety of environments, incuding recoveries from iicit drug production and distribution or resuts from fire and exposives investigations. Our new teaching aboratories and anaytica unit are amongst the best designed and appointed in the country, containing the atest equipment for forensic investigation, incuding nucear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, scanning eectron microscopy, high performance iquid chromatography and Raman spectroscopy. Research and Consutancy We offer a range of highy-accaimed master s courses in the fieds of: forensic anthropoogy forensic genetics document anaysis conservation and widife genetics Our master s courses attract students from a around the word. Speciaist short courses are aso avaiabe in such areas as post-mortem interva estimation and forensic photography, amongst others. Doctora research is focused on the appication of DNA in human identification, widife genetics and post-mortem interva estimation. The Schoo s taphonomic research faciity is unique in Europe. The Taphonomic Research in Anthropoogy: Centre for Experimenta Studies (TRACES) generates cutting-edge research which is reguary pubished in academic journas and presented at internationa conferences. Speciaist staff in forensic anthropoogy and forensic genetics frequenty undertake, and are avaiabe for, casework and consutancy.

6 Like UCLan Poicing UCLAN POLICING Our courses in poicing are not just for peope who want careers in poicing or associated professions; they provide the skis and high eves of confidence that are vaued by private and pubic sector graduate empoyers of a kinds. Those keen to pursue a career as a poice officer shoud seriousy consider our two-year foundation degree, which is cosey based on the Initia Poice Learning and Deveopment Programme. Students on the course are expected to appy to be a Specia Constabe and take on a the powers of a reguar officer. As Specia Constabes, students wi be on patro in one of our partner poice forces who work cosey with us on their deveopment and earning, incuding Lancashire Constabuary, Merseyside Poice and British Transport Poice. Visit: Our BSc(Hons) degrees are designed for those who want to acquire recognised graduate skis in the fieds of poicing, investigation and airport security. Studies incude the aw, technoogica security soutions, and a wide range of investigative procedures ranging from simpe theft through to homicide, compex fraud, cybercrime and even internationa war crimes. Successfu students wi fee comfortabe in taking up careers as investigators not ony in the poice but with a wide range of empoyers, incuding insurance companies, banks and security firms. Research and Consutancy We offer master s courses in a variety of fieds, incuding crimina investigation, poicing and counter terrorism. Our teaching staff comprises highy-experienced former senior poice officers and investigators - as we as currenty-serving officers who are seconded in from poice forces together with highy-quaified academics. Our team is ready to deveop professiona short courses or undertake consutancy to meet specific customer needs, both nationay and internationay.

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8 Like UCLan Chemistry UCLAN CHEMISTRY Taught in our state-of-the-art aboratories, chemistry at UCLan offers a unique earning experience. In addition to providing a soid foundation in the traditiona aspects of chemistry, there is a strong emphasis on modern practices and the atest deveopments at the forefront of the subject. Courses offered incude BSc(Hons) and MChem(Hons) together with a range of MSc courses in the fieds of instrumenta anaysis, synthetic organic chemistry and forensic toxicoogy. Our courses provide a baance between high-quaity forma teaching and practica, hands-on aboratory experience. Research and Consutancy Chemistry research is focused within the Centre for Materias Science and covers a broad range of subjects incuding nano-materias, medicina chemistry, interdiscipinary anaytica science, cataysis and nucear materias. Research was defined as word-eading and internationay exceent in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise and the Centre has a strong track record of attracting funding both from government sources and industry. We have been particuary successfu in coaborative projects with industry and wecome approaches from a companies, whether sma or mutinationa. Our state-of-the-art anaytica faciities provide a fu range of anaytica instrumentation. We offer a contract anaysis service and pride ourseves on being responsive to customer needs. We woud be deighted to discuss projects of a sizes from singe sampes to extensive anaytica projects. Our team of taented synthetic chemists offers a contract synthesis service and is happy to provide a synthetic soution to meet individua needs. We aso offer a range of training and continuing professiona deveopment courses which again can be taiored to meet the cient s individua needs.

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10 Like UCLan Archaeoogy UCLAN ARCHAEOLOGY Visit:

11 Fiedwork and practica skis are a core part of archaeoogy at UCLan. Our undergraduate courses enabe students to undertake a minimum of 10 weeks fiedwork, with opportunities to take part in oca archaeoogica digs and fied surveys, as we as excavations further afied in the UK and abroad. Whist being one of the biggest universities in the country with a the advantages that brings, we have an exceent staff-to-student ratio which means that our students receive a the time and attention from our staff that they need and expect. We have exceent faciities incuding a new archaeoogica science aboratory which contains areas for processing finds as we as a soi fotation unit, and aso a dedicated bone ab for the anaysis of human and anima skeeta remains. We have some of the very atest geophysica equipment and software and award-winning onine materias. Our excavations have received widespread nationa coverage in the press and on teevision whie our staff s pubication output is internationayacknowedged. Our individua speciaisms mean that research is focused in specific periods, namey the Neoithic of Britain and Ireand, the archaeoogy of the modern word and the eary historica period in Britain and beyond. We run projects in Europe, North America and Africa (specificay Kenya and Mauritius) and much of our research is andscapebased, with a particuar focus on the archaeoogy of natura paces. We have a number of projects investigating caves, which is a particuar strength of our research custer, and other projects are studying the archaeoogica record across entire andscapes. Research and Consutancy We have a rapidy-expanding group of PhD research students whose projects incude Prehistoric and pre-coumbian rock art in Caifornia, the Ango-Saxon cemetery at Oakington in Cambridgeshire, and the anaysis and interpretation of Bronze Age barrows in Northern Engand.

12 Like UCLan Fire UCLAN FIRE We offer one of the argest ranges of courses in fire engineering in Europe. These have been designed and deveoped with empoyers and professiona bodies and taught by experts in combustion, exposions and fire safety engineering. Our courses are supported by access to faciities at Washington Ha, the UK s internationa fire, training and deveopment centre. Studies on our courses incude the causes, dynamics and consequences of fire, fire safety design and management, fire investigation, fire protection and prevention, fire-fighting and hazards, and risk management. Our new, purpose-buit aboratory is fuy-equipped for a range of sma- to intermediate-scae fire tests, backed by state-of-the-art anaytica and materia characterisation faciities. Visit: Research and Consutancy Research students undertake directed studies within the Centre for Research in Fire and Hazard Science, and particuar areas of expertise incude: burning behaviour and reationship between sma- and arge-scae studies decomposition and combustion mechanisms and infuence of additives quantification of toxicants present in the fire effuent smoke evoution environmenta aspects Our Fire Chemistry Group has been awarded research grants from EPSRC, DTI and the EU, as we as severa grants and studentships from industry incuding FROCC, Tyco Safety Products, BRE Fire and Security, Pikington, Rhodia Consumer Speciaties Ltd, Acordis Speciaity Fibres, Unifi Tye Ltd, Scapa Poymerics, AEI Compounds, Condor, and Boreais. This joint coaboration between engineers, physicists and chemists has considerabe promise since the diversity of recent threats to pubic safety requires integrated teams with expertise ranging from exposion and fire hazards to toxic species distribution and eary detection.

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14 WHY CHOOSE THE SCHOOL OF FORENSIC AND INVESTIGATIVE SCIENCES? The first speciaist schoo of its kind in Europe, benefiting from purpose-buit faciities and 29 miion of investment. Courses taught by internationay-accaimed academics and former senior practitioners. A simuations based on actua cases worked on by teaching staff.

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