Iremember very little about the career advice I received in school. However, I do remember being told that you should try and fnd something that you love so work doesn’t become a chore, and something that will give you the chance to learn for the rest of your life. At school in the late 1970s and early 1980s I recall news reports about the “umbrella murder”, the “dingo baby”, and the “Yorkshire Ripper”. I started to become interested in forensic science and the rest, as they say, is history. My masters’ studies in the early 1990s were the frst specifcally relating to the forensic sciences. Realistically, the basic principles remain unchanged, but advances in science, technology, and understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of the subject matter as a whole mean that there are now a plethora of disciplines recognised as being involved in the scientifc investigation of crime.