Centre staff
Dr Rosalind Wolstenholme
Senior lecturer in analytical science
Phone 0114 225 3020
Email r.wolstenholme@shu.ac.uk
Research interests
Research interests are in the application of analytical chemistry to forensic science. The main focus of the research is chemical analysis of fingermarks. In collaboration with Dr Simona Francese, the BMRC Fingerprint Research Group was established in 2008. The group have applied new techniques to fingermark analysis, in order to get chemical information on top of an image of the fingermark ridges. This could potentially provide the Police with intelligence information about the donor, e.g. diet, contact with drugs, gender. Recent work has shown that the method is compatible with current operational practice.
Publications
Ferguson L., Bradshaw R., Wolstenholme R., Clench M.R. and Francese, S., A novel two step matrix application for the enhancement and imaging of latent fingermarks, Analytical Chemistry, (in press)
Bradshaw R., Wolstenholme R., Blackledge R., Clench M.R., Ferguson L. and Francese S., A novel MALDI MSI based methodology for the identification of sexual assault suspects, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2011, 25, pp 1-8
Ferguson L., Lozano-Diz E., Francese S. and Wolstenholme R., Gold Nanoparticles for SERS in Fingermark Identification, [online], Spectroscopy Wavelength, June 2010, last accessed 30/9/10.
Wolstenholme R., Bradshaw R., Clench M. and Francese S., Study of latent fingermarks by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation mass spectrometry imaging of endogenous lipids, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2009, 23 pp 3031-3039
Edwards H.G.M., Wolstenholme R., Wilkinson D.S., Brooke C. and Pepper M., Raman spectroscopic analysis of the enigmatic Comper pigments, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2007, 387 (6) pp 2255–2262
