Dr Cher Farrugia from Bristol Dental School has been awarded an International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (IADR) STAR Network Academy Fellowship 2024. Please see this School news item for all the information. Well done Cher!
Cleft lip and/or palate is a lifelong condition affecting one in 700 births. A new research programme, led by the University of Bristol and thanks to funding of nearly £2 million by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), will investigate how ethnicity, sex, socio-economic status, health literacy and geography affect outcomes for … Read more
Mike Gregory delivered a hands-on impression taking workshop at the British Undergraduate Dental Research Conference on Saturday 25th February in Manchester. Mike was joined by current BDS final year students Adam Kingsley and Kyriakos Keklikoglou and Jagdeep Saimbi who is a previous graduate from Bristol who supported him in delivering the workshop to a host … Read more
We are delighted to share the news that current BDS Year 3 student Janet Wewe has been selected by the Wellcome Trust to receive one of six Biomedical Vacation Scholarships at the University of Bristol. Well done Janet! We asked her how she felt about it… “I am delighted to state that I have been … Read more
Participants are being sought for a research project on “An exploration of the views of ethnic minority dental students of the impact of their ethnicity on their dental school experience”. This project is being undertaken by former Paediatric Dentistry StR and Bristol graduate Maalini Patel. If you wish to take part, Maalini’s contact details are … Read more
Congratulations are due for Georgina Burton who was selected to give a 3 minute talk, followed by poster presentation at The Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Internship Scheme (IRIS) showcase on Wednesday 30th January. Georgina Burton and Dominic Clark-Roberton, both dental students, worked with The School of Physics in the summer of 2018, using a miniaturised Raman … Read more
Elizabeth Blyth, a year 2 student on the BDS programme, has been awarded a prestigious INSPIRE vacation studentship. The national INSPIRE scheme is designed to engage medical, dental and veterinary undergraduate students with research. Elizabeth will spend a one-month placement in Bristol Dental School’s Oral Microbiology group, working under the supervision of Dr Angela Nobbs. … Read more
We are delighted to bring to your attention the recent success of IEU based dental researchers in the upcoming IADR conference. Collectively we have had 2 first author oral presentations and 3 first author poster presentations accepted at this prestigious international conference (details below). Special mention should go to Serena Dodhia who has had her … Read more
Last year we brought you news of Wendy McLaren’s Posture Workshop following on from her elective project. We are delighted to announce that Wendy has now had her paper “Do Dental Students have Acceptable Working Posture?” accepted for publication without modifications in the Research section of the British Dental Journal (BDJ)! Professor Robinson commented “this … Read more
Results of a research collaboration between faculty and students When we started out on this research project, we knew that some students are conflicted about studying social and behavioural sciences as applied to dentistry. For some, the challenge is that they simply aren’t interested whereas others are unconvinced about the relevance for dentists. Yet others … Read more