Dr Melissa Humphries

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2022	Stephenson, L., Wills, S., van den Heuvel, C., Humphries, M., & Byard, R. W. (2022). Increasing use of sodium nitrite in suicides—an emerging trend. Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 8 pages. DOI
  2022	O’Donovan, S., Humphries, M., van den Heuvel, C., Baldock, M., & Byard, R. W. (2022). Cardiac disease and driver fatality. Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 4 pages. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  2022	Stephenson, L., van den Heuvel, C., Humphries, M., & Byard, R. W. (2022). Characteristic features of self-immolation in a western population. Pathology, 54, S70. DOI
  2022	O’Donovan, S., van den Heuvel, C., Baldock, M., Humphries, M. A., & Byard, R. W. (2022). Fatal blunt chest trauma: an evaluation of rib fracture patterns and age. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 136(5), 1351-1357. DOI
  2022	Lountain, O., Tuke, J., Brown, H., Redman, K., Wilczek, S., & Humphries, M. A. (2022). A multivariate extension to the standard 4σ criterion for comparison of forensic glass evidence. Forensic Science International, 338, 7 pages. DOI
  2022	Stephenson, L., van den Heuvel, C., Humphries, M., & Byard, R. W. (2022). Characteristics of fatal insulin overdoses. Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 13 pages. DOI
  2022	Stephenson, L., Grabowski, M., van den Heuvel, C., Humphries, M., & Byard, R. W. (2022). Success of Low Aromatic Fuel in Preventing Gasoline Sniffing Deaths.. The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology, Publish Ahead of Print. DOI
  2022	O’Donovan, S., van den Heuvel, C., Baldock, M., Humphries, M., & Byard, R. W. (2022). Seasonal variation in cutaneous seat belt markings in fatal vehicle crashes. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 4 pages. DOI
  2022	O'Donovan, S., Lewis, D., Van Den Heuvel, C., Baldock, M., Humphries, M. A., & Byard, R. W. (2022). Methamphetamine and alcohol detection in vehicle-driver fatalities in South Australia: A 10-year survey (2008-2018).. J Forensic Sci, 67(1), 257-264. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  2022	Johnson, S., Maclean, J., Vozzo, R. F., Koerber, A., & Humphries, M. A. (2022). Don't throw the student out with the bathwater: online assessment strategies your class won't hate. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 53(3), 627-638. DOI
  2021	Rahmat, R. A., Humphries, M. A., Austin, J. J., Linacre, A. M. T., & Self, P. (2021). The development of a tool to predict temperature-exposure of incinerated teeth using colourimetric and hydroxyapatite crystal size data. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 135(5), 2045-2053. DOI
  2021	Stephenson, L., Kenneally, M., van den Heuvel, C., Humphries, M., Stockham, P., & Byard, R. W. (2021). Recent trends in barbiturate detection in medicolegal deaths. Legal Medicine, 53, 1-5. DOI
  2021	Rahmat, R. A., Humphries, M. A., Linacre, A. M. T., Malik, A., Saedon, N. A., & Austin, J. J. (2021). Freeze-drying improves DNA yield from teeth. Forensic Science International, 326, 110938. DOI
  2021	Bade, R., Tscharke, B. J., O’Brien, J. W., Magsarjav, S., Humphries, M., Ghetia, M., . . . Gerber, C. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 Controls on the Use of Illicit Drugs and Alcohol in Australia. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 8(9), 799-804. DOI Scopus7 WoS5
  2020	Rahmat, R. A. -A. R., Humphries, M., Austin, J. J., Linacre, A., Raven, M., & Self, P. (2020). Integrating spectrophotometric and XRD analyses in the investigation of burned dental remains. Forensic Science International, 310, 110236-1-110236-9. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
  2016	Lai, F., O'Brien, J., Thai, P., Hall, W., Chan, G., Bruno, R., . . . Mueller, J. (2016). Cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine residues in wastewater: Consumption trends (2009-2015) in South East Queensland, Australia. Science of the Total Environment, 568, 803-809. DOI Scopus57 WoS53 Europe PMC11
  2016	Humphries, M., Bruno, R., Lai, F., Thai, P., Holland, B., O'Brien, J., . . . Mueller, J. (2016). Evaluation of monitoring schemes for wastewater-based epidemiology to identify drug use trends using cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and methadone. Environmental Science and Technology, 50(9), 4760-4768. DOI Scopus15 WoS13 Europe PMC3
  2016	Manning, E., Holland, B., Ellingsen, S., Breen, S., Chen, X., & Humphries, M. (2016). Comparison of three statistical classification techniques for maser identification. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 33, e015-1-e015-30. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
  2015	Humphries, M., Bruno, R., Karpievitch, Y., & Wotherspoon, S. (2015). The expectancy valence model of the iowa gambling task: Can it produce reliable estimates for individuals?. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 64-65, 17-34. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
  	McArthur, L., & Humphries, M. A. (n.d.). Multi-model mimicry for model selection according to generalised goodness-of-fit criteria.
  	Ryan, M., Glonek, G., Humphries, M., & Tuke, J. (n.d.). Multivariate distance matrix regression for a manifold-valued response variable.

Courses Summary

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2022	Co-Supervisor	Re-imagining the concept of marks for more accurate assessment of each student's understanding	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Christina Anne Tait
  2020	Principal Supervisor	Building a recommender system to increase successful outcomes in crime scene analysis.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Louise Margaret Campbell
  2020	Co-Supervisor	A retrospective analysis of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical substance-related coronial deaths in SA over 20 years	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Lilli Grace Stephenson
  2020	Principal Supervisor	Large-scale social media sentiment analysis as a predictor of public behaviour in Australia.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Miss Saranzaya Magsarjav
  2019	Principal Supervisor	Four dimensional, highly correlated, longitudinal data with informative missingness: The statistical challenge of predicting childhood mental health from fMRI data.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Matthew James Ryan

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2021 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Developing a Strong(er) Theory of Eyewitness Memory: The Selection, Verification, and Application of Mathematical Models of Identification Decisions	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mrs Kym Michelle McCormick
  2019 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Statistical Methods for Comparison of Forensic Glass Samples in Australia	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Oliver James Lountain
  2018 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Explanatory statistical modelling of influences of demographic experience on political identity	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Lachlann Bradley McArthur

• Position: Lecturer
• Phone: 83135265
• Email: melissa.humphries@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor 6
• Org Unit: School of Mathematical Sciences