Oral and Dental Research
Since 2008 the Faculty of Dental Surgery has been committed to promoting oral and dental surgery research. This year, the Faculty has formed partnerships with the British Orthodontic Society, the Association of British Academic Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the British and Irish Society for Oral Medicine, the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry, the British Society of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry, the British Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, the British Association of Oral Surgeons and the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry, and will be offering a number of pump-priming grants and a fellowship.
- If you would like any information or have any questions, please email the Faculty office
- Read about our 2023 awards round
- Download and share our research fellowship and grants poster
Research fellowships
Applications are now open for the 2024 round.
Please see below for details regarding the FDS Research Fellowship.
FDS Research Fellowships
The Faculty will support a one year research fellowship to support clinical trainees to obtain research training. The proposed research should be of relevance to oral and dental research. The Fellowship award will cover salary, on-costs and research consumable costs. Applicants should not already have a PhD or equivalent. Funding should be taken up within 12 months of the award being made.
Pump-priming grants
Applications are now open for the 2024 round.
Pump-priming applications are conducted as a two-stage process. Details regarding these pump-priming fellowships are listed below.
FDS Pump-Priming Grants
The Faculty awards up to five pump-priming research grants up to the value of £10,000 each per year designed to meet research consumable costs for research relating to any aspect of oral health and wellbeing. These grants are designed primarily for early career researchers or lecturers and not for individuals who are well established in research.
Joint FDS-Association of British Academic Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
The Faculty in conjunction with the Association of British Academic Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons invites applications for pump-priming grants which will be for up to £10,000 and are intended to support research that supports the oral health and dental services for older people in the UK.
Joint FDS–British and Irish Society for Oral Medicine
The Faculty in conjunction with the British and Irish Society for Oral Medicine invites applications for pump-priming grants which will be for up to £10,000 and are intended to support research designed to benefit community or population oral health, and should be related to the field of Oral Medicine.
Joint FDS–British Society of Paediatric Dentistry
The Faculty in conjunction with the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry invites applications for pump-priming grants which will be for up to £10,000 and are intended to support research into the oral health of children in the broadest sense.
Joint FDS–British Society of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry
The Faculty in conjunction with the British Society of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry invites applications for pump-priming grants which will be for up to £10,000 and are intended to support research into periodontal disease in the broadest sense.
Joint FDS–Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry
The Faculty in conjunction with the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry invites applications for pump-priming grants which will be for up to £10,000 and are intended to support research designed to benefit community or population oral health, and should be related to conscious sedation in dentistry.
Joint FDS-British Orthodontic Society
The Faculty in conjunction with the British Orthodontic Society invites applications for pump-priming grants which will be for up to £10,000 and are intended to support research into the oral health of children in the broadest sense.
Joint FDS-British Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
The Faculty in conjunction with the British Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology invites applications for pump-priming grants which will be for up to £10,000 and are intended to support research that supports oral and maxillofacial pathology.
Joint FDS-British Association of Oral Surgeons
The Faculty in conjunction with the British Association of Oral Surgeons invites applications for pump-priming grants which will be for up to £10,000 and are intended to support research that improves oral health and patient care related to the specialty of oral surgery.
Video stories from past FDS Fellowship and pump-priming grant recipients.
Sreedevi Poovathumkadavil Unnikrishnan: FDS Pump-Priming Grant, 2023
Sreedevi was awarded for her research project: What is the contributory role of the mucosal microbiome in determining treatment response to topical steroids in lichen planus?
Zehra Yonel: FDS-BSP Pump-Priming Grant, 2023
Zehra was awarded for her research project: Does inflammatory bowel disease alter the detection of and gum disease in saliva?
Joanna Monteiro: FDS Pump-Priming Grant, 2023
Joanna was awarded for her research project: Development of an outcome measure for dentine hypersensitivity in children with molar incisor hypomineralisation.
James Bird: FDS Pump-Priming Grant, 2023
James was awarded for his research project: People with learning disabilities: Developing a way to measure their oral health-related quality of life.
Joelle Booth: FDS Pump-Priming Grant, 2023
Joelle was awarded for her research project: Utilising a peer-led approach to assess the oral health needs and the access to dental care experiences of community returners (prison ex-offenders).
Hanya Mahmood: FDS-ABAOMS Research Fellowship, 2023
Hanya was awarded for her research project: Single-cell sequencing and spatial biomarker analysis in oral epithelial dysplasia.
Professor Helen Rodd MBE: What an FDS Research Fellowship meant for me
Professor Helen Rodd explains what an FDS Fellowship meant to her: a full year of full-time research, and everything that meant for her as a clinical academic.
James Allison: FDS Research Fellowship, 2021
James Allison discusses his research project: Understanding Viral Carriage in Bioaerosols using Dentistry as a Model.
Jag Dhanda: FDS Research Fellowship, 2020
Jag Dhanda discusses what an FDS Research Fellowship did for him - and more on the specifics of the 2020 round and COVID-19DFD pump priming grants.
Lisette Collins: FDS Research Fellowship, 2017
Lisette Collins discusses how an FDS Fellowship changed her life as she was awarded for her project: Mutational Analysis of Ossifying Fibromas of the Jaws.
Useful Links
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have published a statement and recommendations about mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on research and clinical academia.