Digital Forensic Investigation MSc MSc

Law, Policy And Practice For Digital Evidence

Our team will guide you through a combination of engaging Blackboard VLE activities, informative lectures, and hands-on practical classes to help you develop a deep understanding of key legislation related to acquisition, seizure, processing, and presentation of digital evidence.With a focus on upholding human rights and ensuring proper digital evidential disclosure, our module covers a wide range of important topics. You'll explore virtual courts and EPE, internet and net neutrality, legal approaches to regulating the information age, principles of criminal litigation and disclosure of evidence (digital), contempt of court in a digital era, the legal issues of online state surveillance, choice of law in electronic contracts, legal issues in social networking/defamation online, rights for disclosure of digital evidence, and contemporary issues in relation to digital evidence.This is an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge and enhance your career prospects in the rapidly growing field of digital forensic investigation.

Module code: FORE70585

Expert Witness And The Legal System

You will gain an understanding of the England and Wales legal system, with a particular focus on the role of the forensic scientist within this system. You will gain experience of what it is like to be in a court of law and the roles and responsibilities of an Expert Witness. You will also understand the governance and regulations surrounding the production of expert witness statements and be able to produce expert witness statements yourself. This includes an understanding of Court of Appeal rulings and their impact on expert witness evidence and testimony.You will also gain a greater understanding and appreciation of how probability is used in a court of law and pertaining to the criminal investigation. You will gain an understanding of Bayes Theorem and Case Assessment and Interpretation and will gain practical experience of applying these principles in a range of case studies. This will include learning how to find appropriate published studies, as well as how to design your own experimental study to test an hypothesis/competing pair of hypotheses.There will also be a focus on the role of the UK’s Forensic Science Regulator and the guidelines they have produced, and which forensic science expert witnesses are expected to abide by.

Module code: FORE60367

Virtualisation And Infastructure

This module looks at virtualisation of hardware and software and the effect upon the commercial IT market, infrastructure and the wider customer base. Within the module you will look at the hypervisor technologies which are currently used to understand how these interact with hardware and allow a virtualized OS to work either natively or through a host OS. You will also look in detail at the different virtual environments, with virtualised storage, hardware for redundancy purposes and operating systems, and learning environments. This technology does bring a number of benefits and risks and you will be expected to understand this and see where the benefits and risks are within this. The supporting infrastructure will also be looked at to give you a holistic view of how virtualisation will be used within companies now and increasingly in the future.

Module code: COMP70008

Child Safeguarding

The module allows students to delve into the contested subject of child safeguarding, child protection and offender management. This module aims to develop the students thirst for reading and research into case studies and wider, related criminological theory. The subject is intended to prompt an effective interest in analysing competing criminological theories and allow the students to build on their critical analysis. This module will hopefully develop reading and research skills that can be transferred to other modules.

Module code: CRIM60002

Independent Research Project

Following a critical appraisal of the current research in a specific area of forensic science, you will devise and carry out an appropriate experimental programme. You will interpret your results making use of initiative and originality of thinking and produce an extensive report, which effectively describes the research carried out and demonstrates a sound understanding of both the practical and theoretical aspects encountered. You are free to choose the subject matter of the project, subject to us being able to support it with academic supervision and equipment.

Module code: FORE70323

Digital Forensics

A digital forensic investigation is a special case of investigation where the procedures and techniques (and their use) that are used to gain evidence from target digital devices are critical in order that findings can be presented in a Court of Law. The analysis of digital evidence is a very structured and formal process. This module will allow learners to develop knowledge and understanding of digital forensics, focusing on different platforms (computers, mobile phones, smartphones, and vehicles). A key objective of this module is to introduce the principles of digital forensic investigation.

Module code: COMP70007

Statistical Approaches To Forensics

Module code: FORE70583

Digital Evidence Presentation And Advanced Crime Scene Documentation

Learn about the value and issues associated with virtual courts and EPE (Electronic Presentation of Evidence) CCTV sequencing, Ballistic evidence processing, Drone Imaging (including opportunity to fly) RTC analysis, Injury Mapping and Crime Scene Triage for processing of digital evidence and analysis

Module code: FORE70586