Dalil Alshammari

Dalil Alshammari is a fourth-year PhD researcher in dental health science. Along with a postgraduate certificate in medical and health education. In 2018, she got her bachelor's degree in dental medicine and surgery from the University of Hai'l, Saudi Arabia. She Also accomplished a master's degree in dental public health from the University of Sheffield in 2020. Alshammari is currently a lecturer at the University of Hai’l, where she started as a teaching assistant in (2018).In addition, she worked part-time as a teaching assistant at the University of Manchester in the psychology and mental health division and dentistry division.

I am passionate about promoting children's oral health through a multidisciplinary approach combining dentistry, health psychology, and behavioural science. My research focuses on implementing the behaviour change approach in the dental field and I am also interested in healthcare communication. My goal is to help children have healthy smiles and to improve communication between their parents and dental professionals.

I am also an academic who is interested in medical education. I am particularly interested in curriculum and assessment design. Inter-professional education is another area of interest to me because no speciality is completely independent, and all specialities intertwine and are multifaceted.

PhD project:

Her PhD project explores opportunities of providing behaviour change conversations to improve children's oral health in non-dental settings (Early years childhood settings).