Miss Laura Reaney

Teaching Fellow

Pure and Applied Chemistry

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Personal statement

Laura graduated from the University of Lincoln with a BSc (Hons) Forensic Science and the University of Strathclyde with an MSc in Forensic Science, specialising in Biology.

With over ten years’ experience as a Forensic Practitioner in the UK, at one of the largest private providers of Forensic Services, she has worked on a large number of high profile cases throughout the UK, USA, Australia, Afghanistan and South Africa including sexual offences, murders, disaster victim identification cases and terrorism offences.

In addition, Laura has worked as a course developer for Oxford Royale Academy and as a guest lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, before taking up her current position at the University of Strathclyde in 2019.

As the Casework Manager of the Scottish Independent Forensics Review Service, here at Strathclyde, Laura is responsible for overseeing the casework consultancy services and enforcing their Codes of Conduct. In addition, she is competent in all body fluid examinations, Blood Pattern Analysis, DNA analysis and interpretation, recovery and identification of trace evidence (including hairs/fibres and glass) and the analysis of gunshot residue by Scanning Electron Microscopy. She acts as an expert witness, providing independent second opinion casework, producing written statements and giving oral evidence in court.

Her research interests are in policy, compliance and stability in the forensic market.   

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Research Interests

Laura's research interests are in policy, compliance and stability in the forensic market.

Creating, designing and supervising short impact projects with the MSc forensics students and more recently, as part of the Scottish Independent Forensics Review Service, she is leading a review of the contribution of second opinion Forensic Casework over the past 50 years and has a growing portfolio of practical based research at the University in the area of sexual offence casework. 

Professional Activities

"Use of SpermTracker in Teaching, Research and Casework"
Speaker
25/11/2022
Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science Annual Lecture 2022
Participant
30/8/2022
Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science Annual Lecture
Participant
22/8/2022
MSc Research Projects
Chair
9/8/2022
Case Reference CFS/2022/013
Consultant
19/7/2022
Bodies In Water - Webinar
Participant
22/6/2022

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Miss Laura Reaney
Teaching Fellow
Pure and Applied Chemistry

Email: laura.reaney@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4650