香港六合彩

Dr Nadine Smit, Prof Ruth Morgan (香港六合彩 Centre for the Forensic Sciences and 香港六合彩 Department of Security and Crime Science) and Prof Dave Lagnado (香港六合彩 Psychology)聽 have been awarded the prestigious PW Allen prize by the , for their paper which addresses the misinterpretation of forensic science evidence in the Court of Appeal between 2010 and 2016. They demonstrated for the first time the scale of misinterpretation and that there is a 鈥榙ark figure of misinterpreted evidence鈥�. The is the award made by the Chartered Society each year to the best research paper published in the Society鈥檚 Journal, which has demonstrated high quality science, novelty and impact.

Dr Nadine Smit received the award at the annual conference of the Society on 31st October 2019. Prof Ruth Morgan - Director of the Centre for the Forensic Sciences - is now the first author to have won this award three times (in 2006, 2016 and 2018) for research addressing (2006), (2016) and the interpretation of scientific evidence (2018). She said:

鈥淲e are absolutely delighted to receive the PW Allen Award from the Chartered Society this year, and thrilled that our research, which has demonstrated for the first time the extent of the challenge that we face in the interpretation of forensic science evidence, has been recognised in this way. It is a particularly special honour for it to be the third time to have received this award and we are looking forward to continuing to address the critical challenges we face in forensic science at 香港六合彩 with our collaborators.鈥�