Collaborators
Professor Helen Rodd
- Professor and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry
- School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield
Professor Helen Rodd BDS (Hons) FDS (Paed) PhD. Professor Rodd qualified from Bristol University with Honours in 1988. This was followed by three years of General Professional Training in a variety of senior house officer posts. She completed her higher training in Paediatric Dentistry in 1997 and was subsequently awarded Clinical Research Fellowships from both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Medical Research Council. She obtained her PhD in 2000 and is currently Professor/Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry at Sheffield Dental School. To date, her main research interest has been pulpal innervation and inflammation although and she is now increasingly involved in child-centred dental research. Current projects are exploring self- esteem and coping in children with dental defects, the impact of dento-alveolar trauma on children and their families, and decision-making pathways for children with cleft lip and palate. She has recently completed her time as President of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry and is currently leading a working group to develop a commissioning guide for children's dental services in England. Her contribution to the project, together with her colleagues in Sheffield, will be the recruitment and evaluation of participants in the trial. Helen has experience in qualitative and quantitative approaches to research methods with children, which she will be bringing to the project team. One of her strengths is writing, and she hopes to play a very active role in the preparation of any written material related to this project, in terms of both scientific publications and project reports to participants and their families.
