CHEM07007 2019 Research Skills for Analytical Scientists

This module will enable learners to assimilate technical knowledge from previous laboratory-based modules while developing research skills across four core competencies:

• Personal effectiveness in team-based problem solving.
• Management of information, time and resources for investigative research and complex analysis.
• Performance of valid laboratory investigations.
• Verbal and written communication of scientific information in a professional context.

The module aims are achieved through participation in a series of mini-projects on topics relevant to forensic investigation. The learners will be required to work in teams to conduct literature searches to develop methodologies for analysis of a variety of complex samples and then use a range of forensic instrumentation and analytical techniques / processes to achieve accurate analytical measurements. They will then be required to interpret the analytical results in the context of the original question and present verbal and written reports on their findings

The gold standard in analytical chemistry, Dan Harris Quantitative Chemical Analysis provides a sound physical understanding of the principles of analytical chemistry and their applications in the disciplines. Dan Harris presents the subject in a rigorous, readable and interesting manner, lucid enough for non-chemistry majors but containing the depth required by advanced undergraduates. For the first time since the book was published in 1978, Harris has worked with a new contributing author, Professor Chuck Lucy of the University of Alberta. Lucy shares his expertise and teaching experience in Chapters 23-26 on chromatography and capillary electrophoresis.

Updated annually, the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) is the only comprehensive collection of authoritative official standards for UK pharmaceutical substances and medicinal products. It includes approximately 4,000 monographswhich are legally enforced by the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. Where a BP monograph exists, medicinal products or active pharmaceutical ingredients sold or supplied in the UK must comply with the relevant monograph.All monographs and requirements of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) are reproduced in the BP, making the BP a convenient and fully comprehensive set of standards that can be used across Europe and beyond.

"The Twenty-First Edition has continued the trend to revise methods as issues are identified and contains further refined quality assurance requirements in a number of Parts [sic] and new data on precision and bias. New methods have been added in Parts 2000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, and 9000, and numerous methods have been revised. Details of these changes appear on the reverse of the title page for each part."--Pref. p. iv.

Stating that great team players are developed from the inside out, an instructional resource identifies seventeen qualities that make up an in-demand team player while outlining how to embody those qualities.

The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best to convey their research to general and professional audiences. The Craft of Scientific Communication will teach science students and scientists alike how to improve the clarity, cogency, and communicative power of their words and images. In this remarkable guide, Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross have combined their many years of experience in the art of science writing to analyze published examples of how the best scientists communicate. Organized topically with information on the structural elements and the style of scientific communications, each chapter draws on models of past successes and failures to show students and practitioners how best to negotiate the world of print, online publication, and oral presentation.

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Additional useful reference texts:

Cole, M. D. (2003) The analysis of controlled substances, New York: Wiley.

Federal Bureau of, I. (2008) FBI handbook of crime scene forensics, New York: Skyhorse Pub.

Miller, J & Miller, J., Statistics & Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry, 5^th Ed., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.

Lucy, D., Introduction to Statistics for Forensic Scientists, Wiley, 2005.

Boyd, R. K., Basic, C. and Bethem, R. A. (2008) Trace quantitative chemical analysis by mass spectrometry, Chichester: Wiley.

Broekaert, J. A. C. (2002) Analytical atomic spectrometry with flames and plasmas, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.Hill, S. J. (2007) Inductively coupled plasma spectrometry and its applications, Oxford: Blackwell Pub.

Jickells, S. and Negrusz, A. P. D. (2008) Clarke's analytical forensic toxicology, Chicago: Pharmaceutical Press.

White, P.C (Ed). Crime Scene to Court: The essentials of Forensic Science, (2nd Edition). Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2004.

Lee, Henry C. Cracking cases : the science of solving crimes  Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002

Evans, Colin. The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes Berkley Publishing Group; Updated edition (7 Aug 2007)

Journal of Forensic Science. ISSN: 0022-1198. American Society for Testing and Materials

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Forensic Science International: ISSN: 0379-0738. Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd

Rudram DA. Interpretation of scientific evidence. Science & Justice 1996; 36 (3): 133-138.

Instrumentation manuals; Instrument manufacturer on-line applications notes and help directories.

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