BSPD welcomes new CONNECT website sharing child oral health research
NewsPosted by: Dental Design 11th October 2022
CONNECT, a trainee-led research group launches their new website this week. ‘Child Oral health NatioNal rEsearch CollaboraTive’ (CONNECT) is the first UK trainee-led dental research collaborative. The aim of CONNECT is to conduct high quality, trainee-led, multi-centre research and support educational resources in the field of child oral health for the benefit of patients and families.
Financially supported by SDI, (Southern Dental Industries) the main supplier of SDF, through an on-going collaboration, yet free to the end user, CONNECT focuses on providing child oral health research, education and training resources. Any member of the dental team can access the website and resources if they are a CONNECT member. Sign up is available on the website to anyone who is interested www.connecttrainees.co.uk/.
With the enhanced website, CONNECT will now be even better placed to support the sharing of educational resources and research experience in paediatric dentistry for colleagues to learn from their peers.
CONNECT can help those undertaking a research project as part of a Master’s degree to develop their projects further and gain data from multiple centres. CONNECT will also seek funding for projects of its own, giving its members experience in supporting and conducting research.
The new website will provide a more user-friendly platform as we expand our membership to those practitioners working in primary and secondary care facilities, as well as internationally. The new website gives access to previous education and training webinars, free research training resources, opportunities to support clinical research and much more.
How to ‘connect’ with CONNECT:
Simply access the website here (www.connecttrainees.co.uk/) join up for free, and enjoy the resources that are on offer. Additionally, the team will be operating a mailing list to notify members about upcoming webinars, which offer verifiable CPD (Continuing Professional Development), and opportunities to take part in multi-centre collaborative research.
Greig D Taylor, Chair of CONNECT, Newcastle University said: “CONNECT is the first, and only, UK trainee-led research collaborative in dentistry. Having launched in 2017, and in 2019, been awarded the BSPD’s Outstanding Innovation Award, we have grown from strength to strength. Improving our existing website will offer better accessibility and widen the reach of CONNECT so all members of the dental team can benefit from the research and educational opportunities that exist. We are extremely grateful to SDI for their continued support of CONNECT, and their belief that what we are doing is making a difference!”
