Located at our Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, the Crime Scene House is a training space developed to mimic a normal house environment that can be incorporated into a simulated crime scene. It comprises a lounge area, bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom and extends to an outdoor area with a car and garden.
As part of your forensic science study, you’ll be able to search the house to document the crime and collect related evidence – just as you would working in the real world. The space is also used for our outreach programs, research purposes and is available to our industry partners for training and development.
The house can be staged with different types of simulations that are typical of real-world crime scenes, such as murders and drug laboratories. You’ll also interact with simulated elements forensic investigators are often confronted with, including bodily fluids, blood, fingerprints, fibres and weapons that replicate real-life scenarios as closely as possible.
When you study science at Deakin you begin your journey with a University ranked in the top 1% globally for life sciences and medicine. You’ll undertake team-based projects and hands-on experience, so you can hit the ground running when you graduate.
Our Crime Scene House is a fully-simulated environment, designed to give you the most in-depth and immersive learning experience possible. You’ll work your way through simulated rooms and zones filled to the brim with furniture and other incidental objects, such as cutlery and crockery and typical household items, including food products and containers, magazines and towels. You'll search this simulated environment for crime objects such as bullet casings and weapons, post-crime aspects such as simulated blood, other fluids or even live maggots!
Cameras are set up in every room so you can replay your footsteps and gain valuable insight and feedback for future experiences. You’ll also experience virtual 360° imaging of crime scenes within your first year to search the house online.
Our staff, PhD candidates and honours students use the house to conduct research, including projects investigating bloodstain pattern analysis, DNA transfer and the persistence of fingerprints on objects. Research is also conducted in collaboration with the Victoria Police Forensic Services Department to ensure that our research teaching and training continues to replicate what is performed in real life.
Get in touch if you have any further questions regarding our Crime Scene House.
+61 3 9244 6699
