BU have a strong professional orientation with a focus on academic excellence and graduate employability. By way of illustration, they are recognised as the only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice in the UK and graduates from the National Centre for Computer Animation have worked in Hollywood on such films as Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, Star Wars, Madagascar and King Kong. Areas of research expertise include forensic archaeology and crime scene science in which, for example, staff are currently investigating genocide in Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Rwanda and the implications of unearthing 40,000-year-old human footprints in central Mexico.