| Archaeology & Anthropology |
Sherry Nakhaeizadeh |
Initial exposure to extraneous factors at the crime scene and subsequent bias in the processing of skeletal remains |
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Shari Forbes |
Establishing Australia’s first ‘body farm’: The Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (highly commended) |
| Biological – Casework |
Kate Cheong-Wing |
Familial searching of DNA profiles from skeletal remains cases using STRmix in the Northern Territory |
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Nick Burnow |
Taking mixed DNA samples further than ever before: successes of mixed sample database searching (highly commended) |
| Biological – Research |
Runa Daniel |
Massively parallel sequencing: the next generation of forensic DNA analysis |
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Patricia Albani |
Background levels of Y-DNA in female intimate samples (highly commended) |
| Bloodstain Pattern Analysis |
Kirstie Caren |
Determining the Time Since Deposition of Bloodstains Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy and Internationally Recognised Chromaticity Values |
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Ravishka Arthur |
Eye-tracking: A Tool For Understanding Bloodstain Pattern Classification (highly commended) |
| Botany |
Kirstie Scott |
Examining the temporal variation of diatoms as trace evidence indicators: implications for forensic ecology |
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Duncan Jardine |
Genetic assignment testing on tree species (highly commended) |
| Chemical Crim |
Kim Quayle |
The development of routine trackside detection of equine metabolic performance manipulation using lab-on-a-chip technology |
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Sally Gamble |
Forensic intelligence gathering: the detection of explosives in the wastewater system (highly commended) |
| Clandestine Labs |
Cameron Johnson |
Rapid drug testing at the border – the customs – ESR (CESL) screening laboratory at Auckland international airport |
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Jenna Wolf |
Investigation of Direct Sample Analysis – Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (DSA – TOF) for the Forensic Analysis of Seized Drugs (highly commended) |
| Crime Scene Investigation |
Scott Harris |
Burglars don’t kill babies: a case study exploring human factors within the context of crime scene scenario development |
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John Berketa |
Burnt beyond recognition: the retrieval of post-mortem information for victim identification (highly commended) |
| Document Examination |
Caroline Mireault |
Analysis of polymers in false travel and identity documents: A new contribution to a forensic intelligence |
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Nicole Chandler |
A validation study testing the skills of qualified document examiners in determining the printing process used to produce documents (highly commended) |
| Education & Training |
Carol Henderson |
Judicial and legal education in the forensic sciences |
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Gavin Henderson |
Development of a Professional Development and Recognition Program for the Forensic DNA Branch at the Forensic & Analytical Science Service (highly commended) |
| Electronic & Digital |
Kurt McManus |
Interactive 3D models of crime scene exhibits |
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Dana Michalski |
Facial image comparisons of children: how does the age of children in images affect human and algorithm performance? (highly commended) |
| Fingerprints |
Xavier Conlan |
A visualisation software protocol for fingerprint analysis on bullet casings and related substrates |
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Chris Lennard |
Metal-organic frameworks applied to fingermark detection: evaluation of the technique (highly commended) |
| Fire Investigation |
Holly Yu |
Investigations into the fate of explosives in soil |
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Alexander Smyth |
Detection of fingermarks after a car bomb explosion (highly commended) |
| Firearms & Toolmarks |
Gerard Dutton |
Unusual firearm used in suicide |
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Cedric Parisien |
Reconstruction of obliterated serial number in polymers through Raman (highly commended) |
| FIRMS |
Jennifer Mallette |
Geographically Sourcing Cocaine’s Origin – Delineation of the nineteen major Coca growing regions in South America |
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Christy Mancuso |
Fingernail Stable Isotopes Reveal Travel History and Distinguish Between Residents and Non-Residents (highly commended) |
| Management & QA |
Dorothea Delpech |
Exurban criminality: are rural and urban criminals the same species? |
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Thekla Ganiaria |
The proFSSA project: One LIMS to rule them all (highly commended) |
| Odontology |
Haskell Pitluck |
The status of bite mark evidence in the United States |
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Lyndall Smythe |
Innovations of post mortem computed tomography (PMCT) in forensic odontology and identification – a presentation of two cranio-facial superimposition cases using PMCT at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) (highly commended) |
| Pathology |
Agathe Ribereau-Gayon |
Multidisciplinary approach to identifiy cookiecutter shark bite marks on victims in marine environments |
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Martin Evison |
Patterns of microbial bioerosion in exhumed bone (highly commended) |
| Science & Justice |
Helen Earwaker |
The role of psychological theories in the enhancement of forensic science decision-making: an experimental study into the effect of global and local processing
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| Nadine Smit |
| Sherry Nakhaeizadeh |
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Robert Parkinson |
Effects of partial wrapping of buried cadavers on decomposition rate (highly commended) |
| Toxicology/Pharmacology |
Taryn Guinan |
Direct detection of illicit drugs from biological fluids by desorption ionisation mass spectrometry with Nanoporous silicon Microparticles |
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Eric Ji Min Teoh |
Development of a comprehensive multiclass pesticide screening method in whole blood by QUECHERS and LC-QTOF (highly commended) |
| Wildlife, Fisheries & Entomology |
Natalie Gasz |
The effect of humadity on blowfly growth rates, and the impact on post mortem interval calculations |
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Greta Frankham |
Together informing progress: regional capacity building to improve frontline wildlife forensics (highly commended) |
