Oral Health Research Connect - November 2025: Guest Speakers Dr Edward Waters & Associate Professor Delyse Leadbeatter

Abstract

The Oral Health Research Connect (OHRC) seminar series, organised by the Sydney Dental School, aims to foster a culture of research across the school, it’s partner Local Health Districts and other oral health stakeholders.

The OHRC will achieve this through engagement and collaboration in a respectful, safe, constructive and positive discussion. It will be a research capacity and capability development opportunity for students, academics and clinicians. It will serve as a nexus for idea generation and research translation.

Our Guest Speakers & Presentation Topic

• What can population health researchers learn from educational research?- Dr Edward Waters

His talk focuses on how his mathematical training influences his educational research, and what education research can teach population health researchers about planning studies and asking the right questions of themselves. • What can population health researchers learn from educational research?- A/Prof Delyse Leadbeatter

Her talk continues the theme of researcher reflexivity and transformation and focuses on what strong researcher reflexivity can look like and what putting reflexivity into practice means, including the benefits of developing methodological self-consciousness.