Partnership Case Studies - Law and Social Justice

Expertise

Academics based within Law, Crime and Justice are committed to getting justice for victims and contributing to society with their expertise. Dr Amoret Whitaker’s work in investigating an appalling case of gross negligence manslaughter was featured in a recent series of BBC One’s Expert Witness (click to read more). Dr Amoret Whitaker is a Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty and has undertaken forensic casework throughout the UK for many police forces and forensic providers, attending crime scenes, deposition sites and post-mortems, analysing data and submitting reports, and attending court if required.  

Community 

Collaborations with organisations in this field has led to a variety of opportunities in relation to engagement with students, academics and the wider community.  

The University of Winchester hosted an exciting murder mystery event in collaboration with Winchester Cathedral’s Social Justice Week, which saw our departments of Policing, Criminology, Forensics and Law combine to create a sell-out success which invited 60 members of the public to become detectives for the day. Bill Davies, Dean of the Faculty of law, Crime and Justice, said: “This event demonstrated the very high level of knowledge, enthusiasm and teamwork we have in the faculty. I’m delighted that everyone who took part had such good fun investigating my ‘death’ and that the University was able to support Winchester Cathedral’s justice week.” 

Contact us 

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