Ruth Morgan

Founder and Director of the UCL Centre for the Forensic Sciences and Professor of Crime and Forensic Science at UCL

Professor Ruth Morgan is the Founder and Director of the UCL Centre for the Forensic Sciences and Professor of Crime and Forensic Science at UCL. The Centre facilitates a network of researchers from a wide range of different disciplines, to enable a strategic and multidisciplinary research programme in collaboration with external partners and forensic science stakeholders. Her research group is focussed on developing the field of forensic science evidence interpretation. Professor Morgan has received the PW Allen Award from the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences for best publication in the Chartered Society of Forensic Science journal 'Science and Justice' in 2006 and 2017. She sits on a number of advisory bodies including groups at the Home Office and the Knowledge Transfer Network, and is the Vice Chair of the London Geological Society Forensic Geoscience Group. Ruth is a regular speaker (including a recent TED talk https://youtu.be/xclg8ikPAvI) and commentator on forensic science and a strong advocate for addressing the challenges faced in forensic science with problem based research that has an impact in the real world.