Rape is a global scourge. Millions of unsolved rape cases fail in the absence of evidence found. Current technical barriers to the identification and analysis of sperm traces is one key reason. The THEMIS project has developed a new technique that can find traces which would be missed by conventional methods and analyses them more quickly and effectively.

What happens when you take green screens, gaming technology, LIDAR and other cutting-edge imaging techniques and apply them to evidence long buried? The Dig-for-Archaeology project has developed ways these tools can clarify crime scenes that might currently be hard to interpret.

Our globalised world means cultures are interrelating more than ever – what happens when eyewitnesses give evidence in cross cultural contexts? How do we unravel information through a cultural filter? The Beyond Weird Witnesses project has some interesting findings to share.