Forensic Institute Research Network (FIRN)

Conferences

“One of the most useful meetings I’ve attended.”
(Comment from a FORREST attendee)

FORensic RESearch and Teaching (FORREST) is an annual international academic conference of interest to academics, lawyers, law enforcement, and forensic practitioners, organised jointly by The Forensic Institute Research Network (FIRN) and The Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the UK.

For more information visit the FORREST page.

Introduction to FIRN

The Forensic Institute is committed to the improvement of the science of forensic science and its presentation in Court. We have a number of programmes encouraging and assisting research and development in current and new areas of science which will have forensic applications. We created The Forensic Institute Research Network (FIRN) which is an international collaboration of universities created in 2004, with the single aim:

“To improve the quality and quantity of forensic science research and teaching.”

As with most areas of our work, we are always pleased to hear from potential partners and from those who wish to support us in delivering this aim.

We are also pleased to support projects and research designed to assist forensic science. For example, the proposal to develop a Human Taphonomy Facility.

The Forensic Research and Teaching Conference (FORREST) is the main conference for FIRN, supported by a series of Regional Student Conferences in which we sponsor prizes for the best student presentations..

Journal

Call for Papers

We are delighted and excited to announce our intention to develop the open access On-line Journal of the Forensic Institute.

For more information please visit the Journal.

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