When The Job Comes Home: The Personal Toll Of Digital Forensics
Paul Gullon-Scott shares a powerful story of resilience, trauma, and the unseen impact of digital forensics on families, advocating for better mental health support.
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Understanding Digital Forensics Mental Health Stressors: Burnout And Insufficient Mental Health Support
Paul Gullon-Scott explores how long hours and insufficient mental health resources can impact the well-being of digital forensic investigators.
Forensic Focus Investigator Well-Being Survey Results
Paul Gullon-Scott BSc MA MSc MSc FMBPSS highlights emerging themes and implications from the Forensic Focus Investigator Well-Being Survey 2024.
Understanding Digital Forensics Mental Health Stressors: Traumatic Content And Workload Pressure
Paul Gullon-Scott examines how exposure to traumatic content and high levels of work-related stress impact digital forensic investigators’ mental health and productivity.
Understanding Digital Forensics Mental Health Stressors: Introduction
As part of a new series of articles on well-being in digital forensics, Paul Gullon-Scott introduces the main mental health stressors currently faced by digital forensic investigators.
Forensic Focus Investigator Well-Being Survey 2024
Would a mental health online support space for DFIR professionals be useful? Let us know by taking our quick survey.
The Impact Of Traumatic Material On Well-Being In DFIR
Paul Gullon-Scott BSc MA MSc MSc FMBPSS joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to discuss the mental health challenges faced by digital forensic investigators (DFIs), particularly in relation to secondary traumatic stress (STS).
Is There A Mental Health Crisis In Digital Forensics?
Content warning – this post discusses suicidal feelings.
Si: Welcome everybody to the Forensic Focus Podcast. Today we have back with us, much to our huge pleasure, Professor Sarah Morris from the University of Southampton. Forensics guru, communicator with washing
Paul Gullon-Scott Bsc MA MSc MSc FMBPSS, Higher Assistant Psychologist
Paul Gullon-Scott is a former Digital Forensic Investigator with nearly 30 years of service at Northumbria Police in the UK, specializing in child abuse cases. As a recognized expert on the mental health impacts of digital forensic work, Paul now
DFIR And Mental Health – Are We Doing Enough To Protect Investigators?
Forensic Focus has reported before on the impact of cyber investigations on the mental health of digital forensic experts, particularly those who spend time analysing crimes involving child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Psychologists have known for many years that police
Unseen Battles: The Psychological Impact Of Cyber Investigations On Digital Forensic Experts
As technology rapidly evolves, so too do the tools and techniques criminals employ to hide their activities. With nearly every case now involving some form of digital evidence, specialized digital forensics units have become mission critical for law enforcement. However,
Somebody Else’s Hero: Mental Health In Digital Forensics
Impostor syndrome is a common topic on LinkedIn and other professional online career communities, but it seems especially poignant among digital forensics analysts, who frequently work 9-5 Monday to Friday viewing things that no human eye should ever have to
Interview with Noreen Tehrani, Applied Trauma Psychologist, NTA
Can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to work in the field of applied trauma psychology?
I have had a very mixed career; I have worked in medical research, as a retail operations director, property
The darker side of computer forensics
First published January 2010
by John Irvine
http://johnjustinirvine.com
http://twitter.com/John_Irvine
For the better part of the past thirteen (thirteen?!) years, I have been a computer forensic examiner. Sure, the title varies by job and location — digital forensic analyst, media exploiter,
