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James Field  BSc(Hons) BDS PhD MFGDP RCSEng MFDS MPros FDTFEd RCSEd CertClinEd MA(Ed) FAcadMEd PFHEA FCGDent

Professor James Field

(he/him)

BSc(Hons) BDS PhD MFGDP RCSEng MFDS MPros FDTFEd RCSEd CertClinEd MA(Ed) FAcadMEd PFHEA FCGDent

Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Dental Education / Honorary Consultant in Prosthodontics / National Teaching Fellow / Director of Learning and Teaching

School of Dentistry

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Overview

At Cardiff I am currently a Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Dental Education, and an Honorary Consultant in Prosthodontics, and I am also the School's Director of Learing and Teaching, and the Director for Digital Education

I represent Cardiff internationally as:

  • Academic lead for the ADEE European DigEdDent (Digital Education in Dentistry) portal
  • Pan-European lead for the Graduating European Dentist Curriculum Taskforce
  • Global lead for Shaping The Future of Dental Education: Interprofessional Education
  • A trans-national partner in O-Health-Edu, an Erasmus+ K2 project to harmonise dental education across Europe

My commitment and contribution to dentistry and dental education is recognised by the follows honours and awards:

  • 2005 British Society of Restorative Dentistry Undergraduate Prize
  • 2007 RCS England FGDP Case Study Award
  • 2007 Oral & Dental Research Trust Award
  • 2007 British Society for the Study of Prosthodontics (BSSPD) Research Award
  • 2008 BSSPD Schottlander Oral Presentation Prize
  • 2013 Innovation in teaching award
  • 2013 ADEE International Dental Educator Award
  • 2013 Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Teacher Award
  • 2013 Senior Fellow, Advance HE
  • 2014 Fellow, Academy of Medical Educators
  • 2015 Educational Research and Development Award
  • 2015 ‘Development of mobile technologies to support education’ (Innovation Award)
  • 2016 Educational Research and Development Award
  • 2016 Principal Fellow, Advance HE
  • 2017 Fellow, Faculty of Dental Trainers, RCS Edinburgh
  • 2018 National Teaching Fellow (Advance HE)
  • 2021 ADEE International Mature Dental Educator Award

My other external roles include:

  • UKPSF Professional Standards Advisor
  • ADEE Pan-European Chair: Skills teaching
  • RCS Edinburgh Examiner
  • British Society for the Study of Prosthetic Dentistry Council Member
  • British Standards Institute (BSI) Committee member
  • Registered Maillefer Endodontic Trainer
  • External accreditor to programmes against the European Qualifications Framework (EQF)
  • Editorial board member: Heliyon, Elsevier

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Research

My research interests include:

  • educational elements of professionalism, reflective learning and student satisfaction
  • teaching and assessment methods
  • curriculum development
  • The pedagogy of virtual and augmented reality
  • the nanoscale measurement of dental hard tissues
  • erosion and abrasion

I am a reviewer for:

  • European Journal of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry
  • Wiley-Blackwell (Reviewer & Proposal consultant)
  • Dental Update
  • Journal of Dentistry
  • British Dental Journal
  • Oxford University Press (Reviewer & Proposal consultant)
  • Journal of Dental Education
  • PlosOne
  • Journal of Applied Oral Science
  • Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
  • Saudi Dental Journal

Teaching

My main teaching activities include:

  • Clinical and skills teaching of undergraduate BDS students
  • Clinical teaching of Postgraduate students
  • Student research project supervision including Masters and PhD projects
  • Delivery of lifelong learning to the whole dental team

Biography

After completing a BSc with Honours in Zoology, I received BDS with Distinction in Restorative Dentistry in 2005 from Newcastle University.

I completed my General Professional Training in 2007 and was successful in becoming a member of the Dental Faculty of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh. I studied for my PhD, and obtained both clinical and general teaching qualifications, alongside Senior and Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Before coming to Cardiff, I was appointed at Newcastle as a Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry between 2012 and 2017, as a Training Programme Director for DCT1 (HEE) from 2011-2013 and as a Senior Clinical Teacher and Honorary Consultant at Sheffield from 2017-2020.

I enjoy engaging with colleagues across Europe whilst chairing the Pan-European Special Interest group in Clinical Skills Teaching, and as part of the European Curriculum Review Taskforce for Dentistry and Dental Hygiene and Therapy

Contact Details

Email FieldJ2@cardiff.ac.uk

Campuses University Dental Hospital, Room Room 132, Level 1, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XY

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Prosthodontics
  • Educational Research
  • Digital Education