Dr Tina Gornall

Tina is an Accredited Facilitator for Hydra Minerva – an immersive learning suite used to enhance decision-making - and runs interactive sessions for undergraduate and postgraduate Forensic Science and Policing students. Tina also helps to develop new Hydra scenarios for use within UCLan and for external clients in the fields of Emergency Planning, Child Protection, etc.

After graduating from the University of Sheffield with an MPhys Physics & Astronomy degree, Tina was employed as a Research Scientist at Dstl (Defence Science & Technology Laboratory), where she helped to develop a prototype Advanced Jamming System (AJS), conducting radar jamming trials at air bases across the UK and in the US. Tina was then employed as a Forensic Footwear Technician at Lancashire Constabulary, where she identified and analysed all types of footwear evidence from suspects and the marks recovered from crime scenes. Tina has also worked as a Consultant Forensic Collision Investigator at GBB(UK) Ltd., which required her to carefully examine a wide variety of evidence relating to road traffic accidents. Before joining UCLan, Tina undertook a short research position at Lancaster University in the Department of Psychology, where she conducted trials using sociometric sensors to measure individual and interpersonal behaviours during social interactions.