Prestigious European scholarship and a senior fellowship

She has also been made a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Senior fellowship of the HEA is awarded to educators in the higher education sector who have a proven, sustained track record in higher education teaching and management and who are seeking to progress into a leadership position.

Sally has received the ADEE award in support of an innovative piece of research which will, for the first time, address the issue of management and leadership in primary care general dental practice. 

The research will investigate the nature of management and leadership behaviours and traits in primary care dentistry, and identify where and how the findings could be used to enhance standards of dentistry nationally and internationally. The study will employ methods of investigation which have not been used before within dental practice or education.

Sally said:“In the UK especially, dentistry as a profession is going through a period of change. Now more than ever before we need to understand what management and leadership looks like in the profession, so that we can set realistic expectations for professional assessment, learning and development – in effect providing a base line from which we can build a whole new structure for the development of dentists and dentistry to encompass issues such as fitness to practise.”