Professor Elizabeth Davenport, BDS, PhD, MSc, FDSRCSEd, FHEA
Professor of Dental Education
Biography
Elizabeth Davenport qualified in dentistry from the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental Surgery, University of London (1974). Her career has been devoted to the furtherance of paediatric dentistry as an educator and clinical specialist. Her research interests are centered on oral epidemiology culminating in 1993 in her PhD on Caries Risk in Children and attending the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to complete an MSc in Medical Epidemiology, one of the few dentists worldwide to have done so and recently dental education. As a researcher and clinician she is acutely aware of the need to be professional in her every day practice. She is member and past chair of the International Association for Dental Research Ethics (2005-2007)committee who are in the process of reviewing the associations Code of Ethics.
Elizabeth is passionate about paediatric dentistry and works tirelessly at all levels to promote the specialty. However, her interests are directed more to education, especially in developing a Progress File for the dental team. Since 1998 she has achieved £300K funding, published and won prizes for work completed. Currently she and a number of others are working on the development of a generic electronic Progress File for the Dental Continuum.
In 2003 she was awarded a personal chair in Dental Education, the first in the United Kingdom, in recognition of her contribution to dental education at the local, national and international level and as part of Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)’s recognition of excellence in teaching. Her most recent achievement is receiving a National Teaching Fellowship in 2006.
Elizabeth believes she has a mission to develop and deliver dental education fit for the 21st century and is active at all levels at QMUL in matters associated with learning, teaching and assessment. She assists dental colleagues throughout the world in their development of curricula and assessment. She was appointed Examinations Convenor at the Dental Faculty, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in October 2006, a member of the GDC’s IQE (International Qualifying Examination) Review Group, IQE implementation Group. She published two books in 2006 designed to assist the dental team in their understanding of competencies and evidence based dentistry: Key competencies for integrated dental care; edited by Mossey, Holsgrove, Stirrups and Davenport OUP 2006, and Evidence-Based Dentistry: An Introduction. Hackshaw, Paul, Davenport. Blackwell Munksgaard 2006. She was appointed chair of the overseas Registration Examination Board in November 2007. Her responsibilities are to oversea the General Dental Council's overseas Registration Examination (www.gdc.uk.org)
Publications:
Key Publications
Fry H, Jones A, Davenport E. and Brook A. Changing Curricula: an evaluation from dentistry. Medical Teacher. 1997:19:108-113.
Davenport ES. Davis JEC, Cushing AM. and Holsgrove G. An Innovation in the Assessment of Future Dentists. British Dental Journal 1998: 184: 192-195.
Pee B, Woodman T, Fry H, and Davenport ES. Practice-based learning: views on the development of a reflective learning tool. Medical Education 2000: 34 : 754-761.
Woodman T, Pee B, Fry H, Davenport ES. Practice-based learning: emerging professional characteristics, self-concepts and patterns of knowing in dental training. European Journal of Dental Education. 2002; 6: 9-15.
Pee B, Woodman T, Fry H, Davenport ES. Appraising and assessing reflection in students’ writing on a structured worksheet. Medical Education 2002; 36: 575-585.
Davenport ES, Fry H, Pee B, Woodman T. Learning throughout Life: Can a Progress File help? British Dental Journal 2003:195; 101-105.
Pee B, Woodman TM, Davenport ES. Developing teaching and learning innovations in dental training: the example of the Progress File learning System. British Dental Journal 2003: 195; 463-465.
Cooke L, Davenport ES, and Anderson P. Changes in the referral pattern of child patients from the General Dental Service to the Community Dental Service following the introduction of Capitation in October 1990. British Dental Journal 1999: 185: 586-590.
Davenport ES, Williams CES, Sterne JAC, Murad S, Sivapathasundaram V, Curtis MA. Maternal Periodontal Disease and Pre term Low Birth weight: Case-control study. Journal of Dental Research 2002; 81: 313-318.
Davenport ES, Litenas C, Barbayiannis P, Williams CES. The effects of being pre term and low birth weight on the deciduous dentition. Int J Paed Dentistry 2004; 14: 251-259.
Publications since 2001
Pee B, Woodman T, Fry H, and Davenport ES. Practice-based learning: views on the development of a reflective learning tool. Medical Education 2000: 34: 754-761.
Williams CE, Davenport ES, Sterne JAC, Sivapathasundaram V, Fearne JM. and Curtis MA. Mechanisms of risk in preterm low birth weight infants. Periodontology 2000. 2000:23:142-150
Fry H., Davenport ES, Woodman T, Pee B. Developing Progress Files: a case study. Teaching in Higher Education 2002; 7: 97-111
Woodman T, Pee B, Fry H, Davenport ES. Practice-based learning: emerging professional characteristics, self-concepts and patterns of knowing in dental training. European Journal of Dental Education. 2002; 6: 9-15.
Pee B, Woodman T, Fry H, Davenport ES. Appraising and assessing reflection in students’ writing on a structured worksheet. Medical Education 2002; 36: 575-585.
Davenport ES, Williams CES, Sterne JAC, Murad S, Sivapathasundaram V, Curtis MA. Maternal Periodontal Disease and Pre term Low Birth weight: Case-control study. Journal of Dental Research 2002; 81: 313-318.
Bearfield C, Allaker RP, Davenport ES, Ayida G, Sivapathasundaram V. Possible association between infection micro-organisms infection and microflora in the mouth. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2002; 109: 527-533.
Davenport ES, Fry H, Pee B, Woodman T. Learning throughout Life: Can a Progress File help? British Dental Journal 2003:195; 101-105.
Pee B, Woodman TM, Davenport ES. Developing teaching and learning innovations in dental training: the example of the Progress File learning System. British Dental Journal 2003: 195; 463-465.
Davenport ES, Litenas C, Barbayiannis P, Williams CES. The effects of being pre term and low birth weight on the deciduous dentition. Int J Paed Dentistry 2004; 14: 251-259.
Maquire A, Davenport ES, Craig S. Intended learning outcomes for undergraduate training in paediatric dentistry. BSDP Teachers Branch. Int J Paed Dentistry 2004; 14:223-229
BOOKS:
Mossey PA, Holsgrove GJ, Stirrups DR, Davenport ES. (2006) Essential Skills for dentists. Oxford. Oxford University Press. IBSN 0-19-852619-9.
Hackshaw A, Paul E, Davenport E. (2006) Evidence- Based Dentistry. An introduction. Oxford. Blackwell Munksgaard. IBSN-10: 1-4051-2496-2.
Research interests:
Elizabeth is also a specialist in Paediatric Dentistry, and provides dental care for children of all ages, and especially those with disabilities. She Chairs Institute of Dentistry's Dental Quality Committee, is a member of several QMUL committees: Quality Enhancement Committee, Teaching & Learning Assessment Committee, Key Skills and Employability Steering Group and she chairs the Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice Steering Group and is a member of the School of Medicine and Dentist's Education Board. She is President of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (2007-2008).
Her main research interests are currently centred on Educational issues especially assessment (OSCE) and the continuing development of Progress File for undergraduates (Government Office for London Grants worth £140,000) and the dental education continuum (Northern And Durham & Tees WDC grant of £120000). Being a clinician and having training in Medical Epidemology she retains an interest in the discussion regarding the relationship of periodontal disease and systemic disease, and most especially that relationship between maternal periodontal disease and the delivery of pre term and low birth weight (PLBW) infants [Epidemiology (R&D NHS grant £180,000) and relationship between periodontal disease and amniotic fluid and subsequent PLBW (Special Trustees grant £55,000)].