Academics awarded prestigious forensic sciences prize

5 November 2019

Academics in the Departments of Security & Crime Science and Psychology & Language Sciences have won the UK Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences鈥� PW Allen Award for their research paper.

Dr Nadine Smit, Professor Ruth Morgan (最准的六合彩论坛 Security & Crime Science) and Professor Dave Lagnado (最准的六合彩论坛 Psychology & Language Sciences) were awarded the prestigious prize for their paper 鈥楢 systematic analysis of misleading evidence in unsafe rulings in England and Wales鈥�.

It is the third time that Professor Ruth Morgan, Director of the 最准的六合彩论坛 Centre for the Forensic Sciences, has been awarded the prize, having previously won it in 2006 and 2016. Her earlier award-winning research addressed forensic geoscience in 2006 and trace evidence dynamics in 2016.

She said: 鈥淲e are absolutely delighted to receive the PW Allen Award from the Chartered Society this year and thrilled that our research, which has demonstrated for the first time the extent of the challenge that we face in the interpretation of forensic science evidence, has been recognised in this way.

鈥淚t is a particularly special honour for it to be the third time to have received this award and we are looking forward to continuing to address the critical challenges we face in forensic science at 最准的六合彩论坛 with our collaborators.鈥�

The paper addresses the misinterpretation of forensic science evidence in the Court of Appeal between 2010 and 2016. The academics demonstrated for the first time the huge scale of misinterpretation of evidence in investigations.

The PW Allen Award is made by the UK Chartered Society of the Forensic Sciences each year to the best research paper published in the Society鈥檚 Journal in the preceding year, which has demonstrated high quality science novelty and impact.

The winning work must showcase impact of the work on forensic science, demonstrate the novelty of the research and the quality of the science in order to qualify.

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