Historie van het christelijke, rooms-katholieke begraven in Limburg. Promotieartikel.
De reconstructie van rituelen rondom dood en begraven in Roermond tussen 1870 en 1940. Promotieartikel.
Dit onderzoek gaat over het oostelijke Romeinse grafveld, dat is aangetroffen in Heerlen, op de noordzijde van de Molenberg. Graven binnen het oostelijk grafveld werden sporadisch aangetroffen vanaf 1878 tot 1999. Dit heeft ervoor gezorgd dat veel kleine publicaties zijn geschreven over de graven en vondstlocaties op het terrein, maar dit is nooit samengevoegd in een document. Dit is de aanleiding voor dit onderzoek naar het grafveld. Het doel is om de data samen te brengen, deze te interpreteren en hieruit een synthese op te stellen. Waardoor een beter beeld ontstaat over Coriovallum en een betere verwachting kan worden opgesteld voor het Romeinse oostelijke grafveld van Heerlen
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Every year the police are confronted with an ever increasing number of complex cases involving missing persons. About 100 people are reported missing every year in the Netherlands, of which, an unknown number become victims of crime, and presumed buried in clandestine graves. Similarly, according to NWVA, several dead animals are also often buried illegally in clandestine graves in farm lands, which may result in the spread of diseases that have significant consequences to other animals and humans in general. Forensic investigators from both the national police (NP) and NWVA are often confronted with a dilemma: speed versus carefulness and precision. However, the current forensic investigation process of identifying and localizing clandestine graves are often labor intensive, time consuming and employ classical techniques, such as walking sticks and dogs (Police), which are not effective. Therefore, there is an urgent request from the forensic investigators to develop a new method to detect and localize clandestine graves quickly, efficiently and effectively. In this project, together with practitioners, knowledge institutes, SMEs and Field labs, practical research will be carried out to devise a new forensic investigation process to identify clandestine graves using an autonomous Crime Scene Investigative (CSI) drone. The new work process will exploit the newly adopted EU-wide drone regulation that relaxes a number of previously imposed flight restrictions. Moreover, it will effectively optimize the available drone and perception technologies in order to achieve the desired functionality, performance and operational safety in detecting/localizing clandestine graves autonomously. The proposed method will be demonstrated and validated in practical operational environments. This project will also make a demonstrable contribution to the renewal of higher professional education. The police and NVWA will be equipped with operating procedures, legislative knowledge, skills and technological expertise needed to effectively and efficiently performed their forensic investigations.
