The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Sally's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Sally
Associate Dean for Education and Student Experience Faculty of Health and Professor of Primary Care Dentistry, Peninsula Dental School
I qualified from Bristol Dental School in 1993 and spent the first 10 years of my career working full time in Primary Care Dentistry. This included roles in the NHS, private practice, SHO experience and as a civilian dental officer with the Royal Navy.
The next five-year phase saw my clinical career develop by working with special care patients within the Community Dental Services on referral as well as delivering domiciliary care to local care, nursing and residential homes for adults and children. I developed my interest and expertise in non pharmacological and behavioural management strategies during this time and gained my Advanced Diploma in Hypnosis and Stress Management from the University of Stafford in 2010.
Before joining Peninsula I was a Restorative Clinical Lecturer at Bristol Dental School. At Peninsula I quickly progressed to Final Year Lead, lead for professionalism and gained my Post-Graduate Certificate of Academic Practice. I was awarded my PhD in medical education related to leadership in Primary Care Dental Practice. Underpinned by a social constructivist approach, using traditional ethnography and innovative video reflexive ethnography methods and Activity Theory as the theoretical lens for analysis, the final 'Hanks framework' is a conceptual framework of leadership for dentists that has been grounded in Primary Care General Dental Practice. Alongside and complementary to this work is the educational concept of capability and the framework I and 2 medical colleagues developed, to support the concept for learning and education activities.
My interest in patient-centred personalised care and student-centred education influences my approach to ongoing research projects and teaching. I continue creating, developing and delivering innovative curriculum activities and Continuing Professional Development opportunities for undergraduate and post-graduate students, and qualified dentists, to ensure initial preparedness for practice, along with ongoing life long development.
I co-lead the Oral health services, workforce development and clinical epidemiology Research group (https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/oral-health-services-research) in the Dental School where we conduct research relevant to Primary Care Practitioners across their life course from pre admission into Dental School through to retirement. My motivation is to inspire and embed inclusivity and humanity into education and healthcare for our patients, our trainees and our teams, while ensuring our entire dental workforce team is awarded the opportunities they need to thrive in their individual careers.
Supervised Research Degrees
PhD:
Professional support services for Dentists: a modified realist approach
Conceptualising how selected multi-ethnic groups of Malaysia with different tolerance levels perceive and respond to uncertainty in oral health decisions - A mixed-methods research
Improving Dental Admissions Processes: Identifying Predictors of Well-Prepared Dental Graduates
Evaluating the function of ACE2 in oral tissues associated
COVID-19 infection
MSc: An exploratory study investigating the effects of online human factors training on medical students’ behaviour in a peripheral intravenous cannulation hybrid simulation (successful supervision to completion with merit)
In patients with periodontitis, what is the efficacy of enamel matrix derivatives as an adjunct to non-surgical periodontal treatment compared to non-surgical periodontal treatment alone in improvement of periodontal outcomes? (successful supervision to completion with merit)
Clinical advisor PhD: Plasticiser Phthalates, Endocrine Disrupters and Composite Breakdown Materials in Dental Patients. Successful completion 2017
Teaching
How individuals develop and use Emotional Intelligence (EI) to support their own well being and personal and professional development, as well as enhancing communication, empathy and team working. Relevant for healthcare students and practitioners across a range of disciplines for the benefit of patient care. The use of health humanities education methods can provide a rich and beneficial way of learning about these fundamental areas of clinical practice.
My PhD in Leadership in Dental Practice enabled me to develop a conceptual framework of leadership that underpins teaching, learning and development sessions for undergraduate dental students as well as qualified dentists including Dental Foundation Trainers. Through developing a framework through which to explore personal and practice leadership, I am able to provide one to one or group workshops and talks to support individuals, practices and wider groups to understand and optimise their leadership skills, to enhance patient care, support the running of a surgery or practice, and to explore, address and develop insight for the business of dentistry.
Underpinning many of my specific teaching interests is the notion of EI and developing capability over competency. This is the key to understanding and demonstrating how each of us as individuals has a unique set of attributes which contribute to what we do and how we do it. Capability includes personal and professional attributes which a clinician must have to be able to care for their patients successfully. In these days of competency and outcomes based education we must find ways of understanding, educating and assessing capability for the sake of both patients and healthcare workers.
Additional teaching expertise:
ECR leadership coach (Roche Martin TM)
Education and Curriculum development
Programmatic Assessment
Communication
Leadership in Dentistry
Teamworking and management of the dysfunctional team
Hypnosis and Stress Management
Non pharmacological treatment of anxious patients
Personal and professional development planning
Professionalism and performance (including Fitness to Practise)
Feedback: Assessment and the Student Voice
Managing patient expectations
Contact Sally
InterCity Place 608, Plymouth Railway Station, North Road East,, Plymouth, PL4 6AB
+44 1752 586779
sally.hanks@plymouth.ac.uk
