Forensic Science Society Conference: Is What You See What You Get?

Forensic Science Society Conference: Is What You See What You Get?

4-6 July 2008
Summer Conference
Derby Renaissance Hotel
Is What You See What You Get?
Convenors: Brian Rankin & Callum Sutherland Programme and Booking Form (.pdf)
Places still available Summer 08 Domestic Arrangements (.pdf)

Friday 4th July 2008
09.00 am Registration
10.30 am Workshops
(a) Role of Crime Scene Manager and Environmental
Experts
Callum Sutherland, La Plante Productions &
John Manlove, Manlove Forensics
(b) Court Room Skills
Ian Stebbings, & Adam Pacifico, BPP Professional
Education
12.30 pm Lunch
14.00 pm Welcome and Open
Brian Rankin, President, The Forensic Science
Society
Supporting the Criminal Justice System – Roles of Various Bodies
14.10 pm Forensic Science Regulator
Forensic Regulator
14.25 pm Skills for Justice
Charles Welsh, Skills for Justice
14.40 pm NPIA
Simon Bramble, Head of Police Science & Forensics
14.55 pm UK Forensic Science Education Group (UKFSEG)
Professor Julie Mennell, Dean, School of Applied
Science, University of Northumbria
15.10 pm Forensic Science Society (FSSoc)
Dr Anya Hunt, Chair of Standards Committee,
Forensic Science Society
15.25 pm Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners
CRFP Representative
15.40 pm Tea/Coffee Break
16.10 pm Question Time – Providing assurance to the Criminal
Justice System and Confident to the Public
17.10 pm Close
19.00 pm Dinner and Quiz
Saturday 5th July 2008
09.00 am Security of Passports and Travel Documents
Paul Giles, National Document Fraud Unit, Border &
Immigration Agency
09.45 am Integration of Soil Fingerprinting Techniques Looking
Beyond the Individual
Lorna Dawson, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen
10.30 am Tea/Coffee Break – Poster Session Viewing
11.00 am The Prospects for a Nascent Neuroimaging of Lie
Detection
Professor Sean Spence, University of Sheffield
11.45 am When Science Doesn’t Meet the Law
Dr Carole McCartney, University of Leeds
12.15 pm Response to the Omagh Judgement on DNA Profiling
Evidence
Peter Gill, University of Strathclyde
12.45 pm Lunch
13.45 pm You Get What You See!
Pam Hamer
14.15 pm Using Raman Imaging to Determine the Sequence of
Crossed Ink Lines on Questioned Documents
T Smith, Renishaw plc
14.45 pm TBC
Ian Stebbings, & Adam Pacifico, BPP Professional Education
15.30 pm Tea/Coffee Break – Announcement of Poster Winner
16.00 pm Forensic Analytical Services Procurement – The
Informed Customer
Emily Burton, GMP & John Gadd, Dorset Police
16.45 pm ‘Contracts, ‘creditation, Register, Resignation… is our
Profession in Jeopardy?”
Roger Robson, Forensic Access Ltd
17.30 pm Close
19.30 pm Dinner and Entertainment
Sunday 6th July 2008
Handling & Reviewing of High Profile Case
09.30 am Managing High Profile Cases
Dr Angela Gallop, LGC Forensics
10.00 am Damilola Taylor Case – SIO View
TBC
10.30 am Tea/Coffee Break
10.50 am Damilola Taylor Case – SIO View continues
TBC
11.15 am Reviewing High Profile Cases
Professor Brian Caddy
12.00 pm Who Should be Registered?
CRFP Representative
12.30 pm Close