Develop the knowledge and skills you need to design and manage primary or secondary research, audit or evaluation project relevant to your practice, preparing you for dissertation. You also cover research governance and ethics, to prepare you to apply for ethical approval or release.

You are assessed through a written 4,000-word proposal for a research, audit or evaluation study, which is worth 100% of the module marks and should be submitted in week 13.

You develop a critical understanding of the processes involved following a mass fatalities incident, from investigating the crime scene to recovering the body to the emergency mortuary and ultimate release of the body to relatives.

This module covers the medico-legal issues that are pertinent to forensic radiographers/technologists and which are the foundation of forensic practice. Topics covered include continuity of evidence, standards of digital evidence, statements and documentation, presenting evidence in court, the role of the expert witness, and health and safety.

This module will facilitate you to be critical about what you read and how you apply it to your practice, to be articulate and confident to engage with others in debate and to incorporate necessary changes to your department’s protocol, to be adaptable in utilising a range of learning activities, and to be aspiring to establish best practice in forensic imaging. In addition, when learning about the topic evidence, you will be facilitated to be articulate and confident in presenting evidence, be critical in reflecting on how you prepare evidence, statements, and present evidence in court, and be adaptable, aspiring and creative in developing new approaches to managing digital evidence in your department.

This module covers the medico-legal issues that are pertinent to forensic radiographers/technologists and which are the foundation of forensic practice. Topics covered include continuity of evidence, standards of digital evidence, statements and documentation, presenting evidence in court, the role of the expert witness, and health and safety.

This module will facilitate you to be critical about what you read and how you apply it to your practice, to be articulate and confident to engage with others in debate and to incorporate necessary changes to your department’s protocol, to be adaptable in utilising a range of learning activities, and to be aspiring to establish best practice in forensic imaging. In addition, when learning about the topic evidence, you will be facilitated to be articulate and confident in presenting evidence, be critical in reflecting on how you prepare evidence, statements, and present evidence in court, and be adaptable, aspiring and creative in developing new approaches to managing digital evidence in your department.

This module is for radiographers/technologists who would like to further enhance their cross-sectional imaging skills in order to provide a minimally invasive autopsy service. As the public is increasingly rejecting the conventional autopsy, there is greater demand for minimally invasive autopsy, using cross-sectional imaging technologies. You will learn about post-mortem computerised tomography - protocols, techniques, post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging, post-mortem angiography, image interpretation and pathology, post-mortem biopsies, pulmonary ventilation, role of the radiographer in dealing with the bereaved, service provision, and governance.

This module will facilitate you to be confident and critical in the application of research to your own practice, to be aspiring and creative in developing your skills to provide a post-mortem imaging service, to be adaptable in using your computerised tomography skills and knowledge in post-mortem imaging practice, and to be confident, critical, and articulate in presenting aspects of post-mortem imaging to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

This module is designed for radiographers and technologists who primarily work in the paediatric setting or who want to specialise further in forensic imaging of paediatrics. You will learn about the investigation of infant deaths, suspected physical abuse, imaging modalities utilised for suspected physical abuse of paediatrics, injuries indicative of suspected physical abuse, standards of imaging of suspected physical abuse, techniques for imaging paediatrics, post-mortem imaging of paediatrics, differential diagnoses, and image interpretation.

You will be aspiring and creative in developing your skills and techniques to image deceased and living paediatrics, adaptable and confident in applying imaging skills and knowledge to the paediatric forensic imaging environment, and articulate, confident, and critical in identifying suspected physical abuse, and in presenting aspects of paediatric forensic imaging to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Topics covered include imaging modalities, minimally invasive autopsy, suspected physical abuse (paediatrics and vulnerable adults), injury processes and pathology, illegal immigration and human trafficking, drug packers, identification of the deceased - fingerprints, DNA, anthropology, odontology, radiography, and roles within the multidisciplinary team.

This module will facilitate you to be critical reading research and how you apply it to your practice, to be articulate and confident in presenting forensic information to specialist and non-specialist audiences, to be critical and adaptable in your use of imaging modalities in forensic practice, and to be creative and aspiring to enhance your own forensic practice.