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Crime Scene Investigation-in the field and the lab
About this Session
Coroner Audrey Jamieson will engage three women from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) in conversation. It will NOT be gruesome. It WILL be factual, unlike what you might see on television shows. And it WILL be funny. These people work on life and death and know how to keep a balance between morbid curiosity and scientific professionalism It is a MUST SEE festival event for 2025.
Sunday 1 June, 10.30 - midday
Highland Society, Maryborough Vic
$70 includes 3 sessions + lunch
OR
Table of 10 = $625 includes 3 sessions + lunch
Coroner Audrey Jamieson, BA, LLB, Grad. Dip. Bioethics.
Her Honour Audrey Jamieson was appointed a Magistrate on 21 December 2004 and has worked as a full time Coroner since June 2005.
Coroner Jamieson started her working life as a nurse and later entered the legal profession after completing degrees in Arts and Law at Monash University. At the time of her appointment, she was a partner at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and an accredited specialist with the Law Institute of Victoria in personal injury litigation.
Coroner Jamieson is the State Coroners Representative on the Ethics Committee at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM), a member of the Coroners Court Research Committee and Chair of the Coroners Education Committee.
In discharging her obligations under the Coroners Act 2008 she regularly meets with the medical and scientific members of the VIFM to discuss matters germane to her investigation into a reportable death. She also regularly provides education on the Coronial system to health workers, Clinical Forensic Registrars and to the Melbourne University Law Masters course.
Dr Linda Iles
Dr Linda Iles is Head of Forensic Pathology Services at the VIFM. For Linda, putting the pieces together and helping families to understand what happened is at the heart of the work she does. And if you want to know anything about forensic neuropathy, Linda is the expert.
Dr Joanne Glengarry
Adjunct Associate Professor Dr Joanna Glengarry is a senior forensic pathologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, having attained her medical degree in the “Edinburgh of the South”, Dunedin, and completed specialist training across both New Zealand and Australia. She is a lecturer and researcher at Monash University, with her areas of interest including injury interpretation and postmortem radiology. She is a keen runner, reader, and gardener, and knows exactly how to get away with the perfect murder….
Dr Linda Glowacki
Senior Scientist in the toxicology department prior to being appointed as the Manager in 2016. Linda holds a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Medical Sciences), a Degree of Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) in Medical Laboratory Science (RMIT University) and a Degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Biology/Biotechnology (RMIT University). She has extensive experience in the analysis of drugs having worked for 7 years as an Analytical Chemist and Senior Research Chemist at Racing Analytical Service Ltd, investigating drugs in the racing industry prior to her employment at the VIFM.
At the VIFM Linda and the toxicology team are responsible for the analysis of drugs and poisons in biological samples in reportable deaths for the coroners court of Victoria, as well as case work for Victoria police including samples collected under the provisions of the Victorian Road Safety Act, drug facilitated crime cases and more recently samples collected from patients that present at emergency departments with suspected illicit drug intoxications for the Emerging Drugs Network of Australia-Victoria.
Linda has been gazetted as an approved analyst under section 57 of the Road Safety Act of Victoria and is a member of The lnternational Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT), the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society (ANZFSS), The Royal Australian Chemical Institute as a Chartered Chemist (RACI), the Society of Hair Testing (SOHT) and the Forensic and Clinical Toxicology Association (FACTA). Linda also represents the VIFM on the Toxicology Special Advisory Group as part of Australia and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) and the National Institute of Forensic Science.