Continued increase

Of these, there were 383 FTE professors, senior lecturers and lecturers and 291 FTE senior clinical teachers, clinical teachers and researchers.

There have been year by year increases in the number of senior clinical teachers and clinical teachers since the role was recognised as a clinical academic pathway with an emphasis on teaching rather than research. This accounts for nearly 90 per cent of the expansion of the clinical academic team from 471 FTE in 2007, to 592 FTE in 2014 (+24 per cent). Just 14 per cent of senior clinical teachers, clinical teachers and researchers hold full-time contracts with a university, compared with 85 per cent of professors, readers/senior lecturers and lecturers. There is however a second trend in the profile of academic dentistry, in that those on research focused clinical academic pathways are increasingly top heavy. The number of professors has increased steadily to its highest level of 118 FTE in 2014, and 79 per cent of professors and readers/senior lecturers are now aged 46 and over.