• Question: Whats your favourite thing about forensic science ?

    Asked by benjaminfranklin to Jamie, Jodie, Kat, Mark, Niamh on 15 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Katherine Davies

      Katherine Davies answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      Hi

      Its about using science to help people, almost directly. Some scientific experiments can be related to diseases such as cancer, but it may take decades for a set of experiments or data to actually help society. In forensic entomology, the impact our research on people and society can be seen much more directly and quicker than in some other sciences.

      Kat

    • Photo: Mark Hill

      Mark Hill answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      Hello Ben,

      What I really like is making sense from non-sense, in the chaos of a large collision scene. Then working out the collision dynamic and explaining it to others and the courts. It is the application of science, particularly physics, to corroborate my version of the event.

      Thanks for your question.

      Mark.

    • Photo: Jodie Dunnett

      Jodie Dunnett answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      I like the fact that even the tiniest piece of evidence can help to make sense of what has happened at a crime scene.

    • Photo: Jamie Pringle

      Jamie Pringle answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      Hello Benjamin,

      Before I worked on geotechnical jobs, so looking for mineshafts, building foundations, dull stuff like that.

      Forensics is much more interesting, looking for illegal buried objects, including murder victims!

    • Photo: Niamh Nic Daeid

      Niamh Nic Daeid answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hi Benjamin – for me it’s that the science that I am involved in doing has a real consequence in someone’s life. It has a use in the real world

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