• Question: How many cases do you do per year?

    Asked by anon-346840 on 18 Jan 2023.
    • Photo: Ray Evans

      Ray Evans answered on 18 Jan 2023:

      On average we do between 30-50 cases per year. We could do more, but we are restricted by the small number of experts able to do our sort of work.

    • Photo: Lorna Dawson

      Lorna Dawson answered on 18 Jan 2023:

      20 to 30 cases and advice in about another 20.

    • Photo: Sue Black

      Sue Black answered on 20 Jan 2023:

      It varies but on average one a week so approximately 50 or so in a year.

    • Photo: Bryan Williams

      Bryan Williams answered on 20 Jan 2023:

      My focus is on core research so we don’t actually work regularly on real live cases. We’re aiming to bring the research to a point where we can start to use what we’ve learned and are still learning to help investigations.

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 20 Jan 2023:

      I also don’t work on real cases, I’m researching methods of analysing cosmetic evidence that might come from real crime scenes in the future. Hopefully, I’ll work on lots of cases after I qualify, using the techniques I come up with!

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