Professor Peter G Robinson BDS, MSc, PhD, FRACDS, FDSRCS, FHEA, FFPH
Professor in Dental Public Health
Academic Unit of Dental Public Health
School of Clinical Dentistry
Claremont Crescent
University of Sheffield
S10 2TA
UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 114 271 7885
Fax: +44 (0) 114 271 7843
Email : peter.g.robinson@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I joined the University of Sheffield in 2002 as the School of Dentistry´s first Professor of Dental Public Health. Since then we have built our team to comprise six academic staff and have 14 PhD students.
We have embedded much of our undergraduate dental public health teaching into our Dental Outreach Programme, which has received widespread praise.
I now lead the Academic Unit of DPH, the Outreach Programme and am Director of Research for the School.
Research Interests
My research interests fall into two areas, the measurement of quality of life and the evaluation of health care.
The measurement quality of life (OHQoL) in oral health related research marks an important move from biomedically dominated perspective to patient-centred approaches. Quality of life is a natural outcome for dental care which is seldom involved in extending or saving life. Whilst we have used oral health related quality of life measures to assess the effectiveness of oral care, interdisciplinary collaboration extends this work to consider the theoretical and methodological foundations of the concept of quality of life and the social psychological factors associated with oral health impacts on quality of life.
Our evaluations of health care aim to improve the quality of health services by providing information policy and decision making at national, local and clinical levels. We conduct HSR in a variety of ways including: randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and qualitative evaluations of healthcare interventions, needs assessments and workforce reviews.
Teaching Interests
As Academic Lead for DPH I have oversight of all teaching in my own discipline as well as social and behavioural sciences and ethics. We host on-site and distance learning masters programmes in dental public health
Our Dental Outreach Programme is unique in that we place undergraduates in primary dental care settings where they provide treatment for patients whilst supervised by practitioners. We were given a Senate Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching for this innovative programme.
Professional activities
As well as being Honorary Consultant to NHS Sheffield, I am the Chair of the Oral and Dental Priority Group for South Yorkshire Local Comprehensive Research Network. I am President of the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry and Editor of the British Society for Oral and Dental Research.
Current projects
- Living with Oral Conditions (studying the experience of chronic disease using oral disease as a model)
- Improving the organisation and delivery of healthcare to patients – innovation in delivery and organisation of primary dental care services
- Determinants of Oral Health related quality of life in adults and children
- Response shift in oral health related quality of life
- The social acceptability of skill-mix in dentistry
- Assessing professionalism in dental education
Key publications
- Robinson PG, Patrick AC, Newton T. Modelling the dental workforce in England. Medical Education England. 2012.
- Robinson PG. The United Kingdom. In: David A. Nash, Jay W. Friedman, Kavita R. Mathu-Muju (Eds) A Review of the Global Literature on Dental Therapists. W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan (2012) pp 163-187.
- Renton T, Bagg J, Robinson PG, Steele J. Want to do clinical research? In press, Br Dent J. 2011.
- Robinson PG, Dyer TA, Teusner, D. The influence of population oral health on the dental team. In press, Community Dentistry Oral Epidemiology
- Smith M, Ash P, Gilmour AS, Austin T, Robinson PG. Outreach training: the special interest group's report. Eur J Dent Educ. 2011 May;15(2):85-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2010.00643.x. Epub 2011 Mar 17
- Zjilstra-Shaw, S. Robinson PG, Roberts, T. Assessing Professionalism within dental education; the need for a definition. Eur J Dent Ed 2011. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0579.2011.00687.x
- Baker SR, Mat A, Robinson PG. What psychosocial factors influence adolescents’ oral health? J Dent Res. 2010 Nov;89(11):1230-5. Epub 2010 Aug 25.
- Durham J, Exley C, Wassell RW, Moufti MA, Robinson PG , Steele J. Patients’ with Temporomandibular Disorders journey through care. In press, Community Dentistry Oral Epidemiology
- Deacon SA, Glenny AM, Deery C, Robinson PG, Heanue M, Walmsley AD, Shaw WC. Different powered toothbrushes for plaque control and gingival health. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Dec 8;12:CD004971.
- Boiko OV, Baker SR, Gibson BJ, Locker D, Sufi F, Barlow APS, Robinson PG. Construction and Validation of the Quality of Life Measure for Dentine Hypersensitivity (DHEQ). J Clin Periodontol. 2010 Nov;37(11):973-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-051X.2010.01618.x. Epub 2010 Sep 22.
- Boiko OV, Ward P, Robinson PG, Gibson BJ. Form and semantic of communication in dental encounters: oral health, probability and time. Epublished, Nov 2010. Soc Health Illness
- Nilchian F, Rodd HD, Robinson PG. The success of fissure sealants placed by dentists and DCPs. In Press Community Dental Health.
- Gibson B, Boiko OV, Baker S, Robinson PG, Barlow A, Player T, Locker D. The everyday impact of dentine sensitivity: personal and functional aspects. Social Science and Dentistry 2010;1:11-20.
- Devi MU, Blignaut E, Glick M, Nasir EF, Yengopal V, Younai F, Robinson PG Social aspects of HIV and their relationship to craniofacial problems. In Press Adv Dent Res.
- Smith M, Lennon MA, Robinson PG. The Sheffield outreach teaching programme. Br Dent J 2010;209:513-520.
- Rodd HD, Barker C, Baker SR, Marshman Z, Robinson PG. Social judgements made by children in relation to visible incisor trauma. Dental Traumatology 2010;26: 2–8;
Current PhD Students
- Tom Dyer
- Dr Orachad Gururatana
- Dr Orawan Nammontri
- Sandra Zjilstra-Shaw
- Sally Eapen-Simon
- Marta Krasuska