Just had a call from a friend back in England. She is doing forensic insect succession studies. There used to be a facility in a high walled garden where we could lay out forensic samples for analysis. Without any consultation they sold the land to a football club. Then told us a small piece of land with a metal fence would be a good enough replacement. This placement is in full view of the public, and right underneath the Art Building.
She's covered her experiments as much as possible from external view. If she covers it anymore it will create a microclimate which will destroy the experiment and it's intentions.
When this site was instated, we told them it was a stupid placement. Now she is being bombarded with complaints by the Art Faculty and being sent these complaints by her head of school! The question is, why has he not sorted this out years ago and found an alternative spot?
My friend was in tears because her major PhD experiments are now in jeopardy and she's close to giving up. Students shouldn't be put in this position. Forensic research shouldn't be this hard for this reason.
All research is valid and should be encouraged. Everywhere we have tried to move experiments to, massive roadblocks were put in the way.
@trinsec Thank you. Nobody likes death research. Then questions get asked at crime scenes and people want to know why there's no answers!
@EmmaClemson Yeah, forensics is pretty important.
Why does nobody like death research? The forensics are always the coolest people in the crime series!
@trinsec It's smelly and you have to use human analogues (ie pigs) or dead humans. People have problems with this, understandable, but not helpful.
@EmmaClemson Uh darn. Hope this'll get resolved but that does sound suck.