Oral Histories and Dentistry: Giving patients a voice
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Oral Histories and Dentistry: Giving patients a voice
IRAS ID
166471
Contact name
Adrian K Jowett
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 14 days
Research summary
Dental students at the University of Sheffield undertake part of their training for outreach in real world dental surgeries across Derbyshire and Yorkshire. This involves treating patients from a diverse range of backgrounds. Dental students frequently struggle with insight about the diversity of people’s lives and how a person may be disadvantaged through no fault of their own. For example, access to and availability of education, work, housing, healthcare and social support. The diversity in access and availability is often termed inequalities.
The aim of this project is to provide training and experience in taking an oral history from patients, although these patients will not be their own but patients of their peers. Oral history is the recording of unique experience, it captures voices and individuals are involved in the process of producing their own life histories. The resulting audio recorded interviews will be used to build an archive which can subsequently be used as a resource for research and teaching on inequalities in the School of Clinical Dentistry.REC name
West Midlands - Coventry & Warwickshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/WM/0083
Date of REC Opinion
27 Mar 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion