Dr Tom Broomhead

BA (Hons), MSc, PhD

School of Clinical Dentistry

Research Associate

Tom Broomhead
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t.w.broomhead@sheffield.ac.uk
19 Claremont Crescent

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Dr Tom Broomhead
School of Clinical Dentistry
19 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
Profile

My background is in geography, and I graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BA in Human Geography in 2009 and an MSc in Social and Spatial Inequalities in 2011.

In 2013 I joined the School of Clinical Dentistry as a Research Assistant, before starting a PhD exploring the impacts of neighbourhood environments on oral health. I completed my PhD in 2017.

Following the PhD, I worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (2017-2018), before joining the School of Clinical Dentistry as a Research Associate in 2018.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Human Geography, University of Sheffield (2009)

MSc Social and Spatial Inequalities, University of Sheffield (2011)

PhD, University of Sheffield (2018)

Research interests

My main research interests include geographical variations and inequalities in health-related outcomes, particularly concerning oral health.

Since joining the School of Clinical Dentistry I have worked on the following related projects:

  • Analysing national patterns of supervised toothbrushing programmes in England (2023-present)
  • Working with the City of Doncaster Council to investigate neighbourhood profiles and vulnerable populations (2023-2024)
  • The Oral Health Observatory - using standardised international oral health-related datasets in six countries (2019-2020)
  • National patterns in paediatric hospital admissions for dental extractions in England (2019)

I am also interested in quality of life and everyday impacts associated with oral health, and have been involved in the following related projects:

  • Living with removable partial dentures (2021-2022)
  • Psychometric validation of the gum health experience questionnaire (2020-2021)
  • Development of a gum-related quality of life measure (2018-2019)
Publications

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Teaching activities

PhD supervision: Yanela Aravena-Rivas (University College London) - Impact of the governance system on sugar consumption patterns among the Chilean population (co-supervisor, 2021-present). 

I have also previously contributed as a lab demonstrator on undergraduate GIS modules and postgraduate statistics modules and supervised a masters level dissertation in Dental Public Health.

Professional activities and memberships

Co-lead of the Place and Communities workstream (Healthy Lifespan Institute – University of Sheffield).

Member of:

  • International Association for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research (IADR)
  • Behavioural, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research (BEHSR) group of IADR
  • British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR)

Journal referee for Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, Community Dental Health, BMC Oral Health, BMC Health Services Research, British Dental Journal, Addiction, Health and Place, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.