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Rachel Bolton-King is a Visiting Fellow at Staffordshire University's Health, Education, Policing and Sciences School, within the Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Department. She holds a PhD in Forensic Firearms Identification and Imaging from Nottingham Trent University (2012) and has held academic roles including Associate Professorship (2017) and part-time lecturing at Nottingham Trent University. Her research focuses on forensic firearm identification, ballistics, and 3D imaging technologies, with a growing international research group supervising 5 PhD students. She co-founded Research4Justice, an open-access repository for justice-related research. Rachel is a Technical Advisor for the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE), an Editorial Board Member for Forensic Science journals, and an external examiner at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has received the Teaching Excellence Fellowship (2016) and Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship (2019). Her professional activities include advancing forensic standards, competency assessments, and cross-disciplinary collaboration through initiatives like the Staffordshire Forensic Partnership.
Education: BSc (Hons) Forensic Science (Nottingham Trent University, 2008), PhD in Forensic Firearms (2012), Postgraduate Certificates in Research Supervision (2014) and Higher Education (2013).
Research interests include forensic firearm intelligence, non-destructive examination of firearms, and archaeological applications. She leads the Forensic Intelligence and Knowledge Bank Work Stream and actively promotes technology-enhanced learning and student research initiatives. Her work aims to bridge academic and practitioner collaboration through platforms like Research4Justice, fostering global research sharing and reducing miscarriages of justice.
