GED Update: Articulate and other items

Prof James Field is currently a Professor in Restorative Dentistry and Dental Education and also the Cardiff University School of Dentistry's Director of Digital Education. He is a long-term active member of ADEE having most recently co-chaired the very successful Bridging the Clinical Gap special interest group and workshop.

James is academic lead for the ADEE European DigEdDent (Digital Education in Dentistry) portal, was lead author for the ADEE's Graduating European Dentist Curriculum Taskforce and Global lead for Shaping The Future of Dental Education: Interprofessional Education stream. He also represents Cardiff University as the trans-national partner in O-Health-Edu, an Erasmus+ K2 project to harmonise dental education across Europe.

Jonathan is a clinical academic at the School of Clinical Dentistry at the University of Sheffield. In his role as an educator, Jonathan leads the undergraduate clinical skills teaching and is also the sustainability lead for the school. He is an educational researcher and played a central role in publishing numerous outputs from the O-Health-Edu project. Jonathan’s PhD explored how the dental curriculum evolves to incorporate new topics and used environmental sustainability as a case study.

He has co-chaired various special-interests groups at annual ADEE conferences and has collaborated with ADEE and the FDI World Dental Federation to disseminate his work on embedding environmental sustainability in the curriculum. Jonathan is currently completing his specialist clinical training in Periodontics.