Digital Body Language: building up a pattern of life of a subject of interest through digital activity. 9 July 2026
Latest in our series of digital investigation workshop led by Fenella Wheatley, that provides contemporary best practice to inform your operational work.
It will provide innovative best practice around how to build up a pattern of life of a subject of interest through their digital body language. It will change and challenge the way you view the role of digital evidence in your investigation.
The workshop will include:
Digital Body Language: How People Move When They Think No One Is Watching
Reframing CCTV and communications data as records of human behaviour rather than technical outputs. Explore how people unconsciously reveal stress, confidence, familiarity, and intent through movement patterns and communication habits.
The Shape of a Life: Reconstructing Routine, Relationships and Secrets
Digital traces rarely show isolated events; they reveal patterns of life. This session focuses on reconstructing daily routines, identifying key relationships, and recognising hidden or protected behaviours. Participants will learn how routine changes often precede or follow significant events and how relationships can be inferred without access to content.
When the System Lies: Gaps, Artefacts and Investigator Bias
Digital data carries an illusion of objectivity. This session challenges that assumption by examining system limitations, artefacts, and investigator bias that can distort analysis. Participants will learn how false certainty emerges, how gaps are misinterpreted, and how investigative narratives can solidify too early.
Who should attend?
This session is a must-attend for any digital investigator or analyst involved in digital investigations who want to develop and enhance their skills.
Held online via Teams
Certificates of CPD available.
Our speaker
Fenella Wheatley is an accredited communications data investigator who has worked for the Met Police and is currently working for the National Digital Exploitation Service (NDES) as a Band C CCTV Investigations Manager.
She has also delivered training courses to investigators and analysts in a number of law enforcement organisations.
She is the author of published work on Stop and Search Proportionality, Crime Mapping Analysis in Greater Manchester – Awarded Q-Step Award for Quantitative Analysis.
HOW TO BOOK
Cost: £214.99 + VAT (GBP) per delegate per workshop (LEA and Government Agency rate). £249.50 + VAT (Industry rate), per delegate
Group bookings: We offer various discounts for group bookings depending on numbers, please contact us for details.
Student discount: We offer a 35% discount on all of our online events/workshops on condition of payment by card and a valid University email address.
Booking: Please send the delegates name(s), email address(es) and purchase order (made out to The Investigator) to booking@the-investigator.co.uk or telephone +44(0)844 660 8707 for further information.
Payment can be made by PayPal/debit/credit card. The meeting link will be sent out 7 days before the event.