Iremember very little about the career advice I received in school. However,
I do remember being told that you should try and fnd something that you
love so work doesn’t become a chore, and something that will give you
the chance to learn for the rest of your life. At school in the late 1970s and
early 1980s I recall news reports about the “umbrella murder”, the “dingo
baby”, and the “Yorkshire Ripper”. I started to become interested in forensic
science and the rest, as they say, is history. My masters’ studies in the early
1990s were the frst specifcally relating to the forensic sciences. Realistically,
the basic principles remain unchanged, but advances in science, technology,
and understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of the subject matter as a
whole mean that there are now a plethora of disciplines recognised as being
involved in the scientifc investigation of crime.