Biological Sciences

Mrs Katherine Brown

Senior Lecturer

Biological Sciences

Katherine.brown@port.ac.uk

Profile

Academic Duties: 

I teach and supervise projects in Entomology and Forensic Entomology to Forensic Biology students at Levels 5 and 6. I also run tutorial group sessions for Levels 4 and 5.

 

Research Interests/Supervision opportunities:

My main research interests involve the  examination of blowfly pupal development at the morphological and molecular levels, for the purpose of time-since-death estimation.

 

Publications:

  • Davies, K., & Harvey, M. (2012). Internal morphological analysis for age estimation of blow fly pupae (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in post-mortem interval estimation. Journal of Forensic Sciences, doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2012.02196.x.
  • Davies, K., & Harvey, M. (2012). Precocious Egg Development in Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Implications for Developmental Studies and Post-Mortem Interval Estimation. Medical and veterinary entomology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2011.01004.x.
  • Davies, K., Thorne, A., & Harvey, M. (2012). Preservation of Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Pupae for use in Post Mortem Interval Estimation. Forensic Science International. (In Press)
  • (In Preparation) Brown, K., Thorne, A., & Harvey, M. (2012). External morphological development of Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) pupae: a new tool for age and PMI estimation. International Journal of Legal Medicine.

 

Hobbies/Interests:

In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, skiing, cycling and visiting wildlife parks, accompanied by my camera and husky where possible. I also run and coach at an acrobatics club for local children.