Marc A Seccombe
Mr Marc Seccombe is an Honours graduate of UWE with a BSc(Hons) Forensic Science and a DIp(HE)Nursing .
Marc’s background was in medical branch of the Royal Navy and the NHS in a variety of clinical acute and psychiatric environments.
In the late 1990s , tragedy struck after Marc lost his two baby daughters to Hospital Care Acquired Infections whilst being cared for in a neo-natal unit environment. He and his then partner were one of the many parents that were subjected to the stress and heartbreak of The Bristol Heart Scandal. This is a shocking period in the NHS history when , with out informed consent from the Health Sevice, baby organs were removed for research purposes despite refusing in some cases consent to autopsy .
After this national scandal broke, many hundreds of grieving parents were forced to endure burying or laying to rest their children's hearts and other organs, sometimes years after the child's original funeral. This lead to a complete lack of faith in the profession that lead to leaving nursing and not returning for many years. This prompted a change of direction into education and a career in investigation and research.
Following this career he worked as a forensic investigator for a leading detective agency working on behalf of The Court Services, legal, commercial and Government sectors.
His academic interests are varied and are concerned with scientific and medical expert evidence and its role within the justice system and medico-legal issues and learning from those lessons.
Other research areas of interest are infection control, environmental contamination, identifying mass graves, analytical chemistry, the golden age of arsenic, Cornish and Celtic cultural preservation and history.
At UWE he was a PAL leader (Peer Assisted Learning) , winner of the Bristol Futures award and Student Chair Representative for The Biology, Biomedical and Applied Sciences Faculty.
Also studied for the GDL at UWE and had worked for Intetdisciplinary and Expert Evidence Network at Bristol Law school.
http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bl/research/ieen/whoweare.aspx.
A proud Cornishman "Oggie" and father to 4 children ,currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
Email [email protected]
Supervisors: Dr Lauren Devine , Professor Andy Tubby,,Dr.Sarah Bateman
Marc’s background was in medical branch of the Royal Navy and the NHS in a variety of clinical acute and psychiatric environments.
In the late 1990s , tragedy struck after Marc lost his two baby daughters to Hospital Care Acquired Infections whilst being cared for in a neo-natal unit environment. He and his then partner were one of the many parents that were subjected to the stress and heartbreak of The Bristol Heart Scandal. This is a shocking period in the NHS history when , with out informed consent from the Health Sevice, baby organs were removed for research purposes despite refusing in some cases consent to autopsy .
After this national scandal broke, many hundreds of grieving parents were forced to endure burying or laying to rest their children's hearts and other organs, sometimes years after the child's original funeral. This lead to a complete lack of faith in the profession that lead to leaving nursing and not returning for many years. This prompted a change of direction into education and a career in investigation and research.
Following this career he worked as a forensic investigator for a leading detective agency working on behalf of The Court Services, legal, commercial and Government sectors.
His academic interests are varied and are concerned with scientific and medical expert evidence and its role within the justice system and medico-legal issues and learning from those lessons.
Other research areas of interest are infection control, environmental contamination, identifying mass graves, analytical chemistry, the golden age of arsenic, Cornish and Celtic cultural preservation and history.
At UWE he was a PAL leader (Peer Assisted Learning) , winner of the Bristol Futures award and Student Chair Representative for The Biology, Biomedical and Applied Sciences Faculty.
Also studied for the GDL at UWE and had worked for Intetdisciplinary and Expert Evidence Network at Bristol Law school.
http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bl/research/ieen/whoweare.aspx.
A proud Cornishman "Oggie" and father to 4 children ,currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
Email [email protected]
Supervisors: Dr Lauren Devine , Professor Andy Tubby,,Dr.Sarah Bateman
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Describing the events that led to the atrocities and “crimes against humanity” in the
former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, focussing especially on Bosnia Herzegovina. Discuss the
techniques that have been used, and are still being applied, to locate mass graves and to
identify the human remains.
The enzyme Glucose oxidase (GOD) and the electro catalyst cobalt phthalocyanine were mixed with a carbon ink prior to printing and prepared in a one-step printing operation.
Calibration studies were achieved under various conditions using amperometry in stirred solutions and evaluated by carrying out measurements on a range of glucose/buffer standards and then a sample of bovine serum to determine glucose levels within the serum.
Key words ; Amperometry, Screen printed electrode (SPE), Glucose Oxidase (GOD) , Biosensor, Buffer, Glucose, Biosensor, Interferences, Hydrogen peroxide, Amperogram
It will outline the relationship of Blood Alcohol Concentrations (BAC) to Breath Alcohol Concentration Levels (BrAC) and the methods and problems associated with determining these with accuracy.
Key Words : Ethanol; interfering substances ; Methanol ; alcohol ; Ethanol specific ;Electronic Screening Devices (ESDs) ; Road Traffic Act (RTA); Breath Alcohol Concentration (BrAC) ; Adulteration ; De-natured ; toxicity ; metabolism ; spectroscopy ; High Attenuated Total Reflectance (HATR)