• Question: What exsperiments wouled you conduct if you won the prize money?

    Asked by xsk1llzx to Jamie, Jodie, Kat, Mark, Niamh on 21 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Katherine Davies

      Katherine Davies answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hi

      I wouldn’t be conducting any – students would be! I would set up a crime scene, and students would be taught how to collect and process the evidence; the money is directly spent on you.

    • Photo: Jamie Pringle

      Jamie Pringle answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hello xsk1llzx,

      As I mentioned on my profile, I’d buy 5 dead pigs and bury them in a mass grave. I’d then survey over them on a 3 months basis, using GPR and electrical resistivity methods, as my previous research has shown these two methods to work best at detecting grave sites.

      Results would then feed into active forensic search investigators to see which technique works best and if this changes over time (whcih has happened with my research on isolated graves). It also has implications for the 2001 foot-and-mouth mass animal burial pits which will be my next focus of research.

      Finally results would be fed into the FreshScience website for you students to be allowed access to and analyse, as I do already for previous research into looking for unmarked graves in graveyards, see: https://ecpd.slcs.ac.uk/FreshScience/

    • Photo: Niamh Nic Daeid

      Niamh Nic Daeid answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      HI Xsk1llxz

      I plan to use the funds to work with our local science centre here in Glasgow to put together some exhibits and tools for students from schools to help them explore some aspects of forensic science. We would use some of the questions and topics you guys have raised in the work. Working with the science centre means we can work with hundreds of students across Scotland

    • Photo: Mark Hill

      Mark Hill answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hi xsk1llzx,
      Personally, I wouldn’t conduct any experiments. I would give the money to my local junior school, for science equipment, to allow the young scientists of tomorrow to enjoy the practical side of science. That is how science is madew more relevant and interesting.

      Thank you for your question.

      Mark.

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