• Question: Is there a place you've always wanted to go and work there? Why?

    Asked by bones to Jamie, Jodie, Kat, Mark, Niamh on 18 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Katherine Davies

      Katherine Davies answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Hi

      The anthropological research facility in Tenessee (the body farm). Its the mecca for entomologists; to be able to study the decomposition of humans is something very few people will get to experience, yet we can gain so much information from this. I would love just say I have visited the place!

    • Photo: Jamie Pringle

      Jamie Pringle answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Sorry Kat, I realise that you want to go! I guess ‘The Body Farm’ in Tennessee always held a grim fascination, as that is where research in forensic science, and specifically human decompostion, really took off (see http://web.utk.edu/~fac/).

      Once I was there last summer (Keele is setting up an exchange programme with UTK), I realised that actually the UK isnt lagging too far behind the States in terms of research and we can do good stuff here as well! It is still an impressive facility to do research and has a really good reputation in forensic science.

      To be honest the more impressive, and this is for Kat’s info, is the Oak Ridge Naitonal laboratory (http://www.ornl.gov/). This is where they train US Police forensic personnel, doing a 24 week course, blow up buildings, crash helicopters, very impressive. Mark would love it!

    • Photo: Niamh Nic Daeid

      Niamh Nic Daeid answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      Hi Bones

      I’ve been fortunate to travel a lot with work and I quite fancy working in antarctica or alaska (I’ve visited there and its fab)

    • Photo: Mark Hill

      Mark Hill answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      Hello Bones (again),

      I love France and very much enjoy the French culture and the people. Although I really enjoy working in this country, I would like to have worked in France, as a collision investigator. The cultural difference between motorists in the UK compared to in other countries is very varied.

      Thanks,

      Mark.

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