Facilities and expertise in Criminal Justice and International Relations

Crime Scene House

Students use our Crime Scene House to gain practical skills that will help them in their future career.

Blood Room

Simulate blood spatter in our Trauma Analysis facility. There are two wet rooms with resources to help you recreate a crime scene and see what kind of blood spatter occurs from different scenarios with different weapons. Resources include rails to hang materials on, paper rolls to place on the walls to record the spatter for analysis (or you can use the walls themselves), and a range of weapons and materials to simulate a physical body.

Ballistics Laboratory

The ballistics laboratory is available to examine a variety of firearms and test fire blank firing and air weapons.

The rubber cladded walls, fixed firing setup and bespoke test rigs enable learners to investigate the scientific parameters influencing short range external and terminal ballistics. Examples include projectile mass, energy and shape, angle of fire, impact angle and target material.

The ballistics laboratory is used to support teaching and learning on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, short courses (https://shop.staffs.ac.uk/shop-by-faculty/lpf.html) and research conducted within Schools across the university. 

Mock Courtrooms

Our digitally enabled mock court rooms are designed to create simulated scenarios for students to put theory in to practice and gain confidence, skills and knowledge to take forward in to their career. 

One room is designed as a crown courtroom and the other for cases at magistrates’ court. Students can present legal arguments, act as expert witnesses, or take part in mooting. Each space includes a dock, lawyers’ area and a bench for the judge or magistrates.

The courtrooms are used by a wide range of students from different perspectives including law students, policing, forensics, international relations and more, to give practice with not only mooting but also in presenting evidence and various other aspects of trials.

In our video, learn about simulation in our Mock Court Room, used by students to practice their skills to prepare them for their future career.

Cyber/Biometrics Lab

Find out more: Networks and Cyber Security. 

Networking Labs

Find out more about our networking facilities. 

Science Centre

Find out more about our Science Centre Facilities. 

Centre of Archaeology

The Centre of Archaeology offers world-class services in commercial, research and community archaeology – all supported by cutting-edge equipment and facilities.

Their dedicated Commercial Services team is committed to providing unrivalled support, guidance and expertise to ensure the successful completion of archaeological projects ranging from long-term research programmes to commercial, development-led ventures and forensic police consultancy.

Staffordshire University Centre of Archaeology website