Research
I am the Lead for the school Oral Health Research Group. The group is an interdisciplinary team comprises dedicated researchers from various fields, uniting the expertise of clinical dentistry, health psychology, and biostatistics. Together, we are committed to advancing oral health research through collaborative and person-focused research, with a primary goal of enhancing health outcomes and addressing health inequalities. One of our strengths is engaging with our patients in many ways, as a group we strive to involve the local communities in our research from its inception to dissemination and implementation. My main focus is investigating and reducing health inequalities. Below are most recent grants award and publications
Grants
• RCS England one year research fellowship Exploring remote treatment planning for a dental general anaesthetic by specialists in paediatric dentistry - A vignette study £87,536 – primary supervisor
• The Borrow Foundation Children Growing Up in Liverpool Oral Health Component £57,899 - CI
• NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Parent Champion for Oral Health Project Evaluation 15k – CI
• Unilever- Human enamel subsurface lesion measurement and in vitro model development to assess anti-caries efficacy of toothpaste products £134,828 - CI
• NHIR HTA, CHOICE TRIAL: Changing Habits tO Prevent ChIld CariEs: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Family Focused Therapeutic Conversation Delivered by Dental Nurses in Primary Care, Co-applicant and PI/ Clinical Lead for Liverpool. total award: £2,608,678.50
• NIHR HTA, Pulpotomy for the management of irreversible pulpitis in mature teeth (Pulpotomy for Irreversible Pulpitis - PIP Trial), Co-applicant and Co-PI for University of Liverpool, total award £1,996,749.96
Key Collaborations:
• Oral Health Theme Lead and member of co-investigator group for Children Growing up in Liverpool (C-GULL) birth cohort.
• Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre for Children (EATC4Children) new collaboration working with emerging workstreams around Bechet Syndrome, IgA vasculitis.
• Paediatric Dental attendances to Emergency Departments. Collaboration to understand and reduce unnecessary dental attendances to ED.
Health inequalities
Children's oral health
Care pathways
Research grants
Exploring remote treatment planning for a dental general anaesthetic by specialists in paediatric dentistry - A vignette study
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND(UK)
January 2025 - December 2025
Establishing the proteome of children's primary teeth
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND(UK)
July 2023 - May 2025
Do Salivary Proteins Predict Causes of Oral Ulceration in Children
ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S CHARITY (UK)
September 2022 - February 2025
CHOICE: Changing Habits tO Prevent ChIld CariEs: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Family- Focused Therapeutic Conversation Delivered by Dental Nurses in Primary Care
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
December 2021 - June 2028
Experiences of dental problems in children with long term health conditions: exploratory study.
ORAL AND DENTAL RESEARCH TRUST (UK)
February 2022 - January 2023
WELLCOME VIP 2007/08
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2007 - October 2009