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Forensic Science in the 2010s: How to Survive a Difficult Decade

Date: 8 June 2010
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle Business School/School of Law Building, City Campus East, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK.
Contact: Colleen Carr, Conference Co-ordinator, NUCFS +44 (0) 191 227 4364

A series of presentations by international, national and NUCFS speakers will explore the theme of Forensic Science in the 2010s: How to Survive a Difficult Decade. Three key issues will be explored:

Validity: across the world doubts have been expressed about the reliability and underpinning basis for forensic evidence. In the UK the forensic community has embraced accreditation and we are now to enter a regulated environment. The speakers for this session will reflect on the strategic issues that confront the forensic science community and how confidence in forensic science can be restored? Indeed whether this matters?

Visibility: at a time when forensic science has an unprecedented grip on the public imagination why is so little known reliably about what actually happens when forensic science is brought to bear on investigations, or what can realistically be achieved through its application? What can forensic scientists and clinicians do to improve professional standards, demonstrate the value of their work and seek to influence decision makers so that forensic science and medicine is adequately resourced?

Viability: with the UK General Election behind us by the date of the conference, will the UK expansion in the use of forensic science come to an end for fiscal reasons? Will this be part of a global trend? Are there ways in which forensic scientists and those commissioning their work can balance possibly contradictory pressures to simultaneously improve cost effectiveness and service quality?

Further information and registration details can be found at:

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/appscievents/nfcconference/

FORREST 2010

FORREST (FORensic RESearch and Teaching) 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 Physical Sciences Centre in the UK.

The next conference is to be held at Coventry University, 29th to 30th June 2010.

The Forensic Mental Health Teaching Unit / Department of Forensic Mental Health Science at the Institute of Psychiatry , Kings College London, would like to invite you to their forthcoming events:

British Society of Criminology Conference Leicester 2010

In 2010 the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference - entitled 'Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Dilemmas and Diversity in Criminology' will be hosted by the University of Leicester. The main conference will take place on Monday 12 July to Wednesday 14 July with the postgraduate conference taking place on Sunday 11 July.

Our guest speaker is the internationally renowned human rights lawyer and founder and Director of Reprieve, Clive Stafford Smith OBE. We also have an exciting line-up of academic keynote speakers comprising: Ben Bowling, Reece Walters, Lilie Chouliaraki and Jeff Ferrell and in addition, Laurie Taylor, from BBC Radio Four’s Thinking Allowed, will be speaking at the conference dinner.

The final call for papers is now open and will close on Friday 9 April 2010. If you would like to present a paper at the conference then you will need to submit an abstract as soon as possible. We are also accepting papers submitted as a complete panel. If you would like to submit a panel comprising three or four papers presented by other colleagues please download the panel submission form from our website. To find out how to submit an abstract or a panel and to download the submission forms please visit our website:

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/criminology/research/conferences/bsc2010/submit

Booking for the conference is now open. There are residential, non-residential and day delegate spaces available. There will be a late booking fee of £55 applicable after Monday 9 May 2010 so we advise all delegates to book their place as soon as possible. Please follow the link below to complete our online booking form:

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/criminology/research/conferences/bsc2010/registration

For further details about the keynote speakers, the conference streams, the venue and the delegate packages and prices please visit our website: www.le.ac.uk/bscconference .