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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Last week our PhD Researcher and Demonstrator in #ForensicScience and #ForensicAnthropology Catherine Roberts was in Bucharest to present her research as a podium talk at the Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe 2026 Symposium.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Amazing to see the work of Catherine Roberts, Dr Vivienne Heaton, and Dr Christopher Aris not only published by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, but also selected to be a featured for the Journal of Forensic Science author campaign! #ForensicScience #ForensicAnthropology

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Amazing grant success from our #forensicanthropology PhD Researchers, with not one....but two grants from the British Association for Forensic Anthropology (BAFA) awarded to members of our team at Keele University! #forensics #forensicbiology #dentalanthropology #ForensicResearch #forensicscience

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Congratulations to all our Graduates!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This week our Program Director for Internationalisation and all around bug expert Dr Falko Drijfhout hosted the European Association for Forensic Entomology at Keele University! #ForensicEntomology #forensicbiology #entomology #forensics #ForensicResearch #keeleuniversity

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Exciting to see our summer school students from Texas A&M University progress in their research projects! Last week they got trained on a variety of research equipment and next week they'll be presenting them at a conference day here, but for now they're still getting stuck in with data collection.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Last week Keele University hosted its annual PGR Symposium. It was great to see our own #forensicscience PhD researchers Amy Heath, Katie Hewitt, and Charlotte Loy give excellent presentations and posters - as well as helping organising the event! #forensicanthropology #forensicbiology #phd

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today we got to show our summer school students from Texas A&M University around all our labs. They got to network with our supervisory teams and start planning their projects, and to play with our #3dscanning equipment, as well as see our #entomology #geophysics #anthropology facilities.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We are extremely excited to be welcoming back students and faculty from Texas A&M University, and their #entomology group, next week for a summer school spanning the rest of June and into July! #forensics #keeleuniversity #summerschool (few pics below from the summer school last year)

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We’re thrilled to see #ForensicScience at Keele University ranked no.1 in England by the Complete University Guide 2027!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Less than a month to go until the 2026 annual conference of the European Association for Forensic Entomology! This year it is not only being hosted at Keele University for the first time, but this will also be the only time the conference has been physically held in the UK outside of London!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Pint of Science UK post part 2! As promised in our post last week we had one more #forensicscience talk coming, this one by PhD researcher and demonstrator Olga Nechyparenka who spoke about #dentalanthropology and #forensicanthropology at Tom's Tap and Brewhouse in Crewe.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

An important annual tradition at Keele University is the #ForensicScience Expert Witness Report and Court Assessments. #forensics #expertwitness #courtcase #forensicscientist

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This week our #forensicscience team have been presenting, attending, and running Pint of Science UK events all over Newcastle, Nantwich, and Crewe!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Last week it our pleasure to have Vice Chancellor Kevin Shakesheff visit our school and our labs across the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences last week.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Recently we were delighted to host Dr Marie Weale, a semi-regular visiting researcher to Keele University and a long term collaborator with our #ForensicAnthropology research team.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

As a part of our #ForensicScience #StudentResearch Conference at Keele University, but separate from the formal assessment part, the conference coordinators and our Head of School Professor Tasnim Munshi award a few 'Head of School Choice Awards'.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

While it may have got a little colder on campus over the last few days, some of our team have been afield in the sun! Dr Adam Jeffery, our Lecturer in Forensic Geoscience, has just attended by invitation the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026 in Vienna.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

For change the weather was on our side in the UK as our MSc students conducted this year's mass grave excavation exercise in the lovely sun! #KeeleUniversity #Forensics #WildlifeForensics #Anthropology #ForensicArchaeology #Archaeology #FieldWork

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Recently we hosted a group of Public Services students from Macclesfield College at Keele University. Their students got to work across our laboratory facilities and crime scene simulation centre to conduct a realistic #CrimeSceneInvestigation. #ForensicCareers #Forensics

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This week we were honoured to host Paul Sainsbury from Thames Valley Police Dog Section (and more importantly Police Dog Ozzie) to #KeeleUuniversity for a one of our regular careers talk. #policedog #policedogtraining #CadaverDog #detectiondog #forensicscience #forensiccareers

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Last Friday we hosted our annual Forensic Science Student Conference where all of our undergraduate students got to present their research which they have been conducting for the past year. #forensicanthropology #ForensicChemistry #forensicbiology #crimesceneinvestigation

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It's almost time for the Annual End of Year Ball! Hosted by our student led Forensic Science Society the ball is open to members, staff, and any other students each year. This year the theme is Cluedo!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🚨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!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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.....

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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. ✋🚨

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We've had our annual visit from the #digitalforensics van on campus, where our students across all our #forensics courses are able to see and tour modern forensic facilities used in digital investigations. This is also folded in to our undergrad and masters modules in digital forensics. #KeeleUni

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This weekend a whole migration of our students attended the Sheffield Anatomy Society Conference, which this year focussed on forensic pathology and anatomy. No less than seven of our students presenting their research (alongside a cheeky poster from Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology Chris too).

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This week were delighted to have Rob Beilby back on campus! A #KeeleUniveristy alumni of our MSci in Forensic and Analytical Investigation, Rob is now a #DNA Analyst for Eurofins Forensic Services.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

An amazing day yesterday with PhD candidate in #ForensicScience George Goodison passing her viva with minor revisions! Huge thanks to the panel Dr Jennifer Burr (of Sheffield Uni) and our very own Dr Richard Darton (of #ForensicChemistry) who examined George's research into #osteology #pedagogy.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

As we approach the Easter break our #masters students are knee deep in their #research project data collection! We offer our research students options for projects ranging from #chemistry, #biology, #digital, #ballistics, #CSI, #wildlife and much more within #ForensicScience.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Our third year #ForensicScience students have been in #toxicology labs this week. In particular they have been working through simulated cases including identifying potential illicit chemicals from scenes where bodies have been found. #ForensicChemistry #Chemistry #Biology #CSI

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Yesterday our PhD in #ForensicAnthropology and #Decomposition, and Demonstrator in #ForensicScience, Catherine Roberts gave an invited talk to the Tooth Talks Society. Hosted by Dr Mackie O'Hara-Ali of @ballstate.bsky.social she spoke to an international audience on post mortem changes in teeth.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Absolutely incredible to see the work of our #summerschool students Dustin and Ella from Texas A&M University going on to present the research projects they did with us last year at the Academic of Forensic Sciences 2026 conference. #ForensicScience #AAFS2026 #Research

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Publication news! Last week, the article “Exploring the student experience of integrating blended learning to crime scene teaching using eXtended Reality to complement in situ practical learning” was published in #Science&Justice, the official journal of The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This week our #ForensicScience have been working with #blooddynamics. They were investigating the effect of impact speed and droplet size on the number of spines around the outside of the #blood stains. They were also looking at the effect of angle on the resulting shape of the #bloodstains.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience our #ForensicScience team will have stalls in #Newcastle-Under-Lyme (Feb 11th) and #KeeleUniveristy (Feb 14th). Free entry for all ages, and we'll have activities running in #ForensicAnthropology, #ForensicPathology, and #Paleontology.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Amazing news as research from our team makes Times Higher Education! "Six ways to create an autism-friendly learning environment" comes from #ForensicGeoscience lecturers Adam Jeffery and Jamie Pringle, alongside Keele University colleague Kelly Jeffery, and Mark Lucherini and Martin Griffin.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Grant Success! 🎉 Our lecturer in #ForensicAnthropology, Dr Chris Aris, has successfully been awarded an ESRC NWSSDTP CASE award! Alongside the Keele staff alum application team, Professor Allanah Tomkins and Dr Amber Collings, this award will support their research into the sale of human remains.

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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!

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Keele Forensics @keeleforensics.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As we start to wind down for the calendar year our #ForensicScience student projects go on pause for the holidays. But sneaking in at the last minute 3rd year Cas Redfern has been prepping some ballistic moulds and making bite mark imprints for their #ForensicAnthropology #research.

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