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1. New Forensic Research Institute launched

   LJMU has launched a new Forensic Research Institute (FORRI) to support and enhance the criminal justice system.

2. School of Justice Studies hosts students from Singapore University of Social Sciences

   The two-week summer school helped broaden the understanding of policing and the criminal justice system.

3. Criminologists use art and play to question ideas of justice

   LJMU academics work alongside artist to create a board game that brings the experiences of life on probation to the general public.

4. Why algae is a forensic biologists best friend

   Dr Kirstie Scott explains how diatoms provide evidence in BBC cold case

5. Forensics: Advances in scene of crime DNA evidence

   Team explores how tiny traces could help crack criminal cases

6. Care experienced girls and young women still at risk of unnecessary criminalisation

   Girls and women who have been through the care system should be diverted away from custodial sentences into community alternatives wherever possible, says a new report published today (Weds 4 May 2022). And the study adds that moves to prevent the criminalisation of girls in care need to be high on the agenda for change.

7. Transformative criminological research celebrated at FACT 20th anniversary

   Dr Emma Murray, a Reader in Military Veteran Studies, has been collaborating with FACT since 2014 and in 2019 became FACT’s Criminologist-in-Residence.

8. Law and Justice Careers Fair, Wednesday 20 November

   Are you interested in pursuing a career in a law or criminal justice setting? Attend the Law and Justice Careers Fair.

9. Art and research project with FACT and those affected by the UK justice system unveiled

   Dr Emma Murray, Reader in Military Veteran Studies at LJMU and Criminologist-in-Residence at FACT has been a long-term collaborator on the project.

10. Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences awards 2023 research grant to LJMU academic

    Dr Nick Dawnay from the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences has been awarded a £10K in support of a project looking to develop eDNA methods to support wildlife forensic investigations.