UKRI Stories | The forensic jeweller who helps solve mysteries - 101 Jobs that Change the World (Ep 32) @UKResearchandInnovation | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
What clues would you look for at a crime scene? Fingerprints? Weapons? What about jewellery? Dr Maria Maclennan, lecturer in jewellery and silversmithing at the Edinburgh College of Art, uses the principles that underpin jewellery - hallmarks, serial numbers, how an item was made and who it was made by - to inform forensic and criminal investigations.
As the world's first forensic jeweller, Maria has worked with anthropologists, forensic archaeologists, embalmers and police officers, and is part of a world that she didn't expect her skills as a jeweller could be applicable to.
Outside of the criminal investigation world, one of her current research projects, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, is helping to trace the identities and families of migrants and refugees who died at a treacherous river crossing between Turkey and Greece. She studies the objects they carried, the narrative that surrounds the object and the way the object acts as a tangible representation of the person, their identity and their life.
See more world-changing jobs like these on our playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjB0VcEl5P9yPj9tljiU1PMhadR7iU1C
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What clues would you look for at a crime scene? Fingerprints? Weapons? What about jewellery? Dr Maria Maclennan, lecturer in jewellery and silversmithing at the Edinburgh College of Art, uses the principles that underpin jewellery - hallmarks, serial numbers, how an item was made and who it was made by - to inform forensic and criminal investigations.
As the world's first forensic jeweller, Maria has worked with anthropologists, forensic archaeologists, embalmers and police officers, and is part of a world that she didn't expect her skills as a jeweller could be applicable to.
Outside of the criminal investigation world, one of her current research projects, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, is helping to trace the identities and families of migrants and refugees who died at a treacherous river crossing between Turkey and Greece. She studies the objects they carried, the narrative that surrounds the object and the way the object acts as a tangible representation of the person, their identity and their life.
See more world-changing jobs like these on our playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjB0VcEl5P9yPj9tljiU1PMhadR7iU1C
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