{{short description|Australian forensic scientist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} '''Michelle Louise Harvey''' is an Australian forensic scientist specialising in forensic entomology (use of insects in the investigation of crimes).

==Education== Harvey completed her PhD / Master of Forensic Science degree in 2006 at the Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and graduated in March 2007.<ref name="UOP" /> ==Career== From 2006 to 2012 Harvey was a senior lecturer in forensic biology at the University of Portsmouth,<ref name="39maggot">{{cite web |title=The wriggling world of 'Maggot Girl' |url=http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/portsmouth/The-wriggling-world-of-39Maggot.1901796.jp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421051551/http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/portsmouth/The-wriggling-world-of-39Maggot.1901796.jp |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 April 2013 |work=Portsmouth Today |date=2006-11-28 |accessdate=2010-10-30 }}</ref><ref name="THE">{{cite web |first=Olga |last=Wojtas |title=Maggot Girl passes on forensic bug |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=206754&sectioncode=26 |work=Times Higher Education |publisher=TSL Education Ltd. |date=2006-11-17 |accessdate=2010-10-30}}</ref> researching molecular relationships between forensically important Calliphoridae.<ref name="UOP" />

She returned to Australia to continue her research at Deakin University in Geelong.<ref>{{cite web|title=School Staff, Deakin University |url=http://www.deakin.edu.au/scitech/les/about/staff-profiles/}}</ref>

Her research utilises insect DNA to identify maggots, which aids in estimating the time since death.<ref name="THE" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The 'Maggot Girl' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2006_48_tue.shtml |work=Radio 4 Woman's Hour |publisher=BBC |date=2006-11-28 |access-date=2010-10-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Maggots to give crime scene clues |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/21/1061434979956.html |date=2003-08-21 |newspaper=The Age |accessdate=2010-10-30}}</ref>

==Other activities== Harvey has published extensively on her research and has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences.{{cn|date=January 2026}} She is also active in promoting science through public speaking engagements and media appearances.{{cn|date=January 2026}}

==Honours and awards== *2001/2002: Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar (University of Pretoria, South Africa)<ref name="UOP" /> *2003: Sir Keith Murdoch Fellow of the American Australian Association (graduate research at the Anthropological Research Facility (known as the Body Farm) in Knoxville, Tennessee)<ref name="THE" /><ref name="UOP" /> *2004: Brownes Western Australian Woman of the Year in Science<ref name="UOP">{{cite web |title=Dr. Michelle Harvey – Biological Sciences |url=http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/biology/staff/title,53716,en.html |publisher=University of Portsmouth |accessdate=2010-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313234923/http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/biology/staff/title,53716,en.html |archive-date=13 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *2013: Winston Churchill Fellowship

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