Selina Reidy

Professional Background

Selina joined West Yorkshire Police in 2006 where she undertakes footwear mark coding and screening comparisons for both volume and major crime cases.  As part of this role, Selina is involved with method validation to meet accreditation requirements and provides training to Police officers and staff across the Yorkshire and Humber region in footwear mark evidence.

In 2013, Selina qualified as a podiatrist and joined the Forensic Unit at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This opportunity enabled her to expand her scope of practice to incorporate footprint comparison (excluding ridge detail), feet-in-shoes comparison and forensic gait analysis which compliments her role at the Police.

Selina is currently seconded to the University of Huddersfield where she is a Lecturer Practitioner in podiatry and guest lecturer for the forensic podiatry MSc module.  She is an external examiner for the diploma in Forensic Human Identification at the Academy of Forensic Medical Sciences and an external supervisor for undergraduate forensic podiatry projects at the University of Northampton.  As a result of these combined roles, Selina has presented at both national and international conferences.

CSFS Background

Selina is a Professional Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences (CSFS) and holds a Certificate of Professional Competence in Forensic Gait Analysis.  She is a member of the CSFS Forensic Gait Analysis Working Group and the writing group for the Forensic Gait Analysis Code of Practice.  Selina teaches on CSFS courses in forensic podiatry and forensic gait analysis and is an assessor for the Certificate of Professional Competence in footprint morphology and feet-in-shoes analysis.  She has peer reviewed article submissions for Science and Justice, the journal of CSFS.

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