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PedaLEGOgy – Building forensic concepts brick by brick
Nick Dawnay, Liverpool John Moores University (Orcid ID 0009-0009-4002-0966).
Louise Dawnay, Liverpool John Moores university 
Lorna Dawson, James Hutton Institute (Orcid ID 0000-0002-8125-2458)
Katherine Brown, Portsmouth University (Orcid 0000-0001-7432-9800)
Iain Macaulay, Earlham Institute (Orcid 0000-0002-6761-757X)
Louise Dawnay, Helen Tidy, Katherine Brown, Lorna Dawson, Iain Macaulay, Nick Dawnay, PedaLEGOgy – Using LEGO® crime scenes as an inclusive way to ‘build’ student learning, engagement and educational experience in forensic science, Science & Justice, Volume 65, Issue 6, 2025,
Description 
Since Francis Glessner Lee created the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death in the 1940 s, the use of miniature crime scene representations has become an accepted and reliable method of allowing students and practitioners to explore, interact, and learn from representations of crime scenes without risk of contamination. Although Lee’s dioramas are still utilised in teaching and training within the forensic sciences these realistic models are expensive and time consuming to create. This research explores an alternative approach to creating miniature crime scenes through the use of Lego® in a workshop developed primarily for undergraduate students. 
The workshop was developed to align with the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences CSI Component Standard Matrix and can be easily altered, augmented and re-set to generate new crime scenes to explore different case contexts. The workshop compared two activities: 1) a 30-minute Lego® model activity, and 2) a 30-minute paper-based (non-Lego®) descriptive activity. Questionnaire data collected from 76 students explored demographics, prior experience of Lego® and their engagement in each of the two activities (Lego® verses descriptive). 
Contact details 
* n.m.dawnay@ljmu.ac.uk
* nick.dawnay@yahoo.com 
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Cite this data 
Dawnay, Nick, Dawnay, Louise, Dawson, Lorna, Brown, Katherine and Macaulay, Iain (2025) PedaLEGOgy – Building forensic concepts brick by brick. [Data Collection] https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.d.00000264
Project and funding information    
This work was part funded by the ESRC SCAnDi project (Grant Ref: ES/Y010655/1) as well as Liverpool John Moores University, 2024 - 2026
Contents  
* 1. Ethics
o Approval reference number 25PBS002
o Dawnay et al Minimum Risk Application v1
* 2. Workshop Booklets
o Level 4
* L4 Group A Booklet 1 - Hotel and Tower
* L4 Group A Booklet 2 - Tower and Museum
* L4 Group A Booklet 3 - Museum and Jazz Club
* L4 Group A Booklet 4 - Jazz Club and Home Alone House
* L4 Group A Booklet 5 - Home Alone House and Hotel
* L4 Group B Booklet 1 - Tower and Hotel
* L4 Group B Booklet 2 - Museum and Tower
* L4 Group B Booklet 3 - Jazz Club and Museum
* L4 Group B Booklet 4 - Home Alone House and Jazz Club
* L4 Group B Booklet 5 - Hotel and Home Alone House
o Level 5
* L5 Group A Booklet 1 - Hotel and Tower
* L5 Group A Booklet 2 - Tower and Museum
* L5 Group A Booklet 3 - Museum and Jazz Club
* L5 Group A Booklet 4 - Jazz Club and Home Alone House
* L5 Group A Booklet 5 - Home Alone House and Hotel
* L5 Group B Booklet 1 - Tower and Hotel
* L5 Group B Booklet 2 - Museum and Tower
* L5 Group B Booklet 3 - Jazz Club and Museum
* L5 Group B Booklet 4 - Home Alone House and Jazz Club
* L5 Group B Booklet 5 – Hotel and Home Alone House
o Workshop Schedule
* 3. Data
o Analysis
* Initial results graphs
* Initial Results graphs
o Wordclouds
* simplewordcloud.com_1920x DiscQ11 b
* simplewordcloud.com_1920x DiscQ11 c
* simplewordcloud.com_1920x DiscQ11
* simplewordcloud.com_1920x LegoQ11 b
* simplewordcloud.com_1920x LegoQ11 c
* simplewordcloud.com_1920x LegoQ11
o Crime Scene Activity Data

Methods  
Louise Dawnay, Helen Tidy, Katherine Brown, Lorna Dawson, Iain Macaulay, Nick Dawnay, PedaLEGOgy – Using LEGO® crime scenes as an inclusive way to ‘build’ student learning, engagement and educational experience in forensic science, Science & Justice, Volume 65, Issue 6, 2025,

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