Profile | Law School | University of Exeter

Professor Dana Wilson-Kovacs

BA (Bucharest) MPhil (Exeter) PhD (Exeter)

Associate Professor (Sociology)

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Overview

My current research examines the use of digital forensics in police investigations in England and Wales, specifically its contexts, operational demands, organisational settings and resources and professional values. Long-term, I have been interested in the interface between forensic and policing cultures, the ways in which outside the laboratory, forensic expertise is acquired, applied and recognised and its impact on investigative practices.

Projects

Digital evidence-based policing: examining the impact of digital evidence strategies in criminal justice outcomes (December 2023-December 2024) Principal Investigator. ESRC-IAA. £31,496.

Human Factors and Digital Technology in Forensic Science: Decision-Making and Legal Implications (January 2022-March 2022). Co-Investigator. Policy Support Fund, University of Exeter. Principal Investigators: Dr. Bethany Growns and Dr. Rebecca Helm. £16,750.

Understanding the Use of Digital Forensics in Policing in England and Wales: An Ethnographic Analysis of Current Practices and Professional Dynamics (September 2018-June 2022). Principal Investigator. ESRC Open Call Award. Co-Investigators: Prof. Brian Rappert and Prof. Sabina Leonelli. £445,045.

Digital Forensics in UK Policing: An Ethnographic Investigation of a Rapidly-Developing Forensic Domain (September 2017- August 2019). British Academy Small Grant Award. £9999.

Triage in Digital Forensics (January 2017-July 2017). Innovation, Impact and Business Link Award, University of Exeter. £1448.

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Research

The use and role of digital forensics in policing and the criminal justice system
Standards and accreditation in digital forensics
Organisational change in forensics and policing
The governance, understanding and application of forensic technologies
Forensic cultures, occupations and practices
Cyber-crime
Crime investigation
Professions and professionalisation
Class, gender and sexuality

Research group links

Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences

Projects

Digital Forensics in Policing in England and Wales: An Ethnographic Analysis of Current Practice - funded by: ESRC
Between the clinic and the laboratory: Biomedical research in praxis - funded by: ESRC

Supervision

The governance, understanding and application of forensic technologies
Forensic cultures, occupations and practices
The use and role of digital forensics in policing and the criminal justice system
Cyber-crime
Crime investigation
Professions and professionalisation
Class, gender and sexuality
Work and employment

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Research students

Current

Elena Teodora Manea

Thesis title: The Other Voice of Medical Consultation. Analysis of Medical Interpreting in the NHS.

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Elena Sharratt

Thesis title: Exploring the emergence and disappearance of transableism on transabled.org: Digital ethnography of a transient mental illness. ESRC-funded. PhD awarded May 2021

Rita Alberto

Thesis title: Gender distorting genre distorting gender: exploring women's rock musicking practices in contemporary Portugal. PhD awarded April 2018.

David Wyatt

Thesis title: Accomplishing Technical and Investigative Expertise in Everyday Crime Scene Investigation. ESRC-funded. PhD awarded July 2015.

Victoria Coven

Topic: In vitro fertilisation and multiple births: international context and policy consideration. MPhil awarded January 2015.

Louise Bezuidenhout

Thesis title: Contextuality in life science ethics: dual-use as a case study. Wellcome Trust-funded. PhD awarded July 2013.

Sigrun Einarsdottir

Thesis title: Bach in Everyday Life and the Performance of ‘Art Music’- The case of the Croydon Bach choir in London performing Bach’s Mass in B Minor. PhD awarded October 2012.

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Publications

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2023

Wilson-Kovacs D, Brookman F, Helen J. (2023) The Use of Digital Evidence in Homicide Investigations, The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation, Taylor & Francis.
Manea Hauskeller T. (2023) The Other Voice of medical Consultations. Analysis of Medical Interpreting in the NHS.
Wilson-Kovacs D, Helm R, Growns B. (2023) Dataset for Digital Evidence in Defence Practice: Prevalence, Challenges, and Expertise.
Wilson-Kovacs D, Helm R, Growns B, Redfern L. (2023) Digital Evidence in Defence Practice: Prevalence, Challenges, and Expertise, The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, volume 27(3), no. 3, DOI:10.1177/13657127231171620. [PDF]
Rappert B, Wilson-Kovacs D, Leonelli S, Wheat H. (2023) Evincing Offence: How Digital Forensics Turns Big Data into Evidence, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, DOI:10.17351/ests2022.1049.

2022

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2022) DELIBERATING FORENSIC GENETICS INNOVATIONS: The case of rapid DNA technologies in England and Wales, Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and their Technolegal Worlds, 111-126, DOI:10.4324/9780429322358-10.
Wilson-Kovacs D, Wilcox J. (2022) Managing Policing Demand for Digital Forensics through Risk Assessment and Prioritization in England and Wales, Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice, volume 17, DOI:10.1093/police/paac106.
Wilson-Kovacs D. (2022) Deliberating forensic genetics innovations, Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling, Taylor & Francis, 111-126, DOI:10.4324/9780429322358-10.
Wilson-Kovacs D. (2022) Digital media investigators: challenges and opportunities in the use of digital forensics in police investigations in England and Wales, Policing: an international journal of police strategies and management, volume 44, number 4, pages 669-682, DOI:10.1108/PIJPSM-02-2021-0019.

2021

Wilson-Kovacs D, Rappert B, Redfern L. (2021) Dirty Work? Policing On-line Indecency in Digital Forensics, The British Journal of Criminology: an international review of crime and society, volume 62, Issue 1, pages 106-123, DOI:10.1093/bjc/azab055.
Sharratt E. (2021) Exploring the emergence and disappearance of transableism on transabled.org: Digital ethnography of a transient mental illness.

2020

Rappert B, Wheat H, Wilson-Kovacs D. (2020) Rationing bytes: managing demand for digital forensic examinations, Policing and Society, pages 1-14, DOI:10.1080/10439463.2020.1788026.
Wilson-Kovacs D. (2020) Effective resource management in digital forensics: An exploratory analysis of triage practices in four English constabularies, Policing, volume 43, no. 1, pages 77-90, DOI:10.1108/PIJPSM-07-2019-0126.

2019

Wyatt D, Wilson‐Kovacs D. (2019) Understanding crime scene examination through an ethnographic lens, WIREs Forensic Science, volume 1, no. 6, DOI:10.1002/wfs2.1357. [PDF]

2018

Wilson-Kovacs DMD. (2018) An Ethnographic Approach to Researching the Introduction of New Forensic DNA Technologies in Policing in the UK, SAGE Research Methods Cases - Sociology Part 2, DOI:10.4135/9781526445315.

2016

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2016) Consumption and Sexual Intimacy: Towards an Understanding of Intimate Cultures in Everyday Life, Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life, 181-196, DOI:10.4324/9781315583853-14.
Wilson-Kovacs DMD. (2016) From petticoats to suspender belts: a brief history of women’s underwear. [PDF]

2014

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2014) 'Clearly Necessary', 'Wonderful' and 'Engrossing'? Mass Observation correspondents discuss forensic technologies, Sociological Research Online, volume 19, no. 3, article no. n/a, DOI:10.5153/sro.3375.
Wilson-Kovacs D. (2014) 'Backroom Boys’: Occupational Dynamics in Crime Scene Examination, Sociology, volume 48, no. 4, pages 763-779.

2012

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2012) Consumption and sexual intimacy: Towards an understanding of intimate cultures in everyday life, Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life, 181-196.
Wilson-Kovacs D, Hauskeller, C. (2012) Cardiac stem cell research: regulation and practice in the UK and Germany, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences, volume 25, no. 4, pages 409-423, DOI:10.1080/13511610.2012.723881.
Wilson-Kovacs D, Wyatt D, Hauskeller C. (2012) 'A Faustian Bargain?' Public voices on forensic DNA testing and the national DNA database, New Genetics & Society, volume 31, no. 3, pages 285-298, DOI:10.1080/14636778.2012.687085.
Wilson-Kovacs D, Hauskeller C. (2012) The clinician-scientist: professional dynamics in clinical stem cell research, Sociology of Health and Illness, volume 34, no. 4, pages 497-512, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01389.x.

2011

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2011) Political Affect. Connecting the Social and the Somatic, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES, volume 33, no. 3, pages 430-431. [PDF]
Wilson-Kovacs MD. (2011) The Future of Police Forensics, Britain in 2011, no. Annual Magazine of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Nov 2010, pages 93-93.

2010

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2010) Class and sexual intimacy: an everyday life perspective, Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges, Ashgate, 217-235.
Wilson-Kovacs D, Weber S, Hauskeller C. (2010) Stem cells clinical trials for cardiac repair: regulation as practical accomplishment, Sociology of Health and Illness, volume 32, no. 1, pages 89-105, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01191.x.

2009

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2009) When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects Adriana Petryna, Princeton University Press, 2009, Life Sciences, Society and Policy, volume 5, no. 2, DOI:10.1186/1746-5354-5-2-84.
Wilson-Kovacs D. (2009) Objectivity, CRIT QUART, volume 51, no. 3, pages 123-125.
Wilson-Kovacs D, Ryan MK, Haslam SA, Rabinovich A. (2009) Just because you can get a wheelchair in the building doesn't necessarily mean that you can still participate: barriers to the career advancement of disabled professionals, Leading Organizations, Sage Publications, Inc, 448-459.
Wilson-Kovacs MD. (2009) Review of When Experiments Travel. Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects, by Adriana Petryna. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. In Genomics, Society and Policy Journal, Volume 52, number 2. http://www.gspjournal.com/. [PDF]
Wilson-Kovacs MD. (2009) Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Critical Quarterly, volume 51, no. 3, pages 123-125.
Ryan MK, Haslam SA, Hersby MD, Kulich C, Wilson-Kovacs D. (2009) The stress of working on the edge: Examining the implications of glass cliffs for both women and organizations, Barriers to diversity: The glass ceiling 20 years on, APA Division 35 Book Series, 153-165.
Wilson-Kovacs D. (2009) Some texts do it better: women, sexually explicit texts and the everyday, Mainstream Sex. The Sexualization of Western Culture, I. B. Tauris, 147-164.

2008

Wilson-Kovacs D, Ryan MK, Haslam SA, Rabinovich A. (2008) Just because you can get a wheelchair in the building doesn't necessarily mean that you can still participate: barriers to the career advancement of disabled professionals, Disability and Society, volume 23, no. 7, pages 705-717.

2007

Wilson-Kovacs MD. (2007) Agency, Consumption and Sexual Intimacy: Understanding the Importance of Material Culture in Everyday Life, Gender and Consumption: Material Culture and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life, Ashgate Pub Co, 181-195.
Ryan MK, Haslam SA, Hersby MD, Kulich C. (2007) Managing diversity and the glass cliff - Research into Practice, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Wilson-Kovacs D. (2007) Agency, Consumption and Sexual Intimacy: Understanding the Importance of Material Culture in Everyday Life, Gender and Consumption. Material Culture and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life, Ashgate, 181-195.

2006

Wilson-Kovacs D, Ryan M, Haslam A. (2006) The glass-cliff: women's career paths in the UK private IT sector, Equal Opportunities International, volume 25, no. 8, pages 674-687, DOI:10.1108/02610150610719137.
Ryan, M.K., Haslam, S.A.. (2006) The glass-cliff: Women's career paths in the private IT sector, Equal Opportunities International,, volume 25, pages 674-687.

2005

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2005) Histories of sexuality antiquity to sexual revolution, SOC HIST MED, volume 18, no. 2, pages 326-327, DOI:10.1093/sochis/hki037.

2004

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2004) Abnormal lectures at the College de France 1974-1975, SOC HIST MED, volume 17, no. 3, pages 535-536.

2003

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2003) Through the wardrobe: Women's relationships with their clothes, EUR J WOMENS STUD, volume 10, no. 2, pages 235-239.
Wilson-Kovacs D. (2003) Bound to please: A history of the Victorian corset, EUR J WOMENS STUD, volume 10, no. 2, pages 235-239.

2001

Wilson-Kovacs MD. (2001) The Fabric of Love: A Semiotic Analysis of the Suspender Belt, Constructing gendered bodies, Palgrave Macmillan, 120-138.
Wilson-Kovacs MD. (2001) The Fall and Rise of Erotic Lingerie, Dressed to Impress. Looking the Part, Berg Publishers, 159-177.

2000

Wilson-Kovacs D. (2000) Reconcilable differences: Confronting beauty, pornography and the future of feminism, J HIST SEXUALITY, volume 9, no. 1-2, pages 180-183.

1999

Schillmeier M. (1999) Democracy without enemies, SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, volume 47, no. 1, pages 172-175, DOI:10.1111/1467-954X.00168. [PDF]
Wilson-Kovacs D. (1999) The politics of duplicity: Controlling reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania, SOCIOL REV, volume 47, no. 1, pages 183-186.

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SOC1019 - Contemporary Society: Themes and Perspectives
SOC2034 - Gender and Society 1
SOC2135 - Forensic Cultures
SOC3013 - Gender and Society 1
SOC3040 - Dissertation
SOC3143 - Forensic Cultures

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BA (Bucharest) MPhil (Exeter) PhD (Exeter)

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