The British Association of Dental Nurses (BADN) 2020 Outstanding Contribution to Dental Nursing Professional Practice Award was presented to Dr Debbie Reed, the University of Kent’s Head of Digital and Lifelong Learning, at the BADN 80th Anniversary Virtual Afternoon Tea.
Dr Debbie Reed is Head of the Digital and Lifelong Learning (DaLL) at the University of Kent. DaLL offers the University’s Higher and Degree Apprenticeship provision, as well as excellent part-time, work-based postgraduate academic programmes, suitable for a full range of working professionals: the MSc in Professional Practice and the MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare. DaLL also offers an expanding range of continuing professional development short courses.
Dr Reed, a former BADN Chairman, trained as a dental nurse at the Royal Navy School of Dental Training in 1987. She went on to hold varying clinical and non-clinical posts, working with the Armed Forces organisations, in the UK and overseas, until she left the Royal Navy in 2007 and joined the academic staff at the University of Kent.
She graduated from the University of Southampton with a BA (Hons) in Post Compulsory Education, gaining an MSc in Human Resource Development from the University of Portsmouth’s Business School. In 2011 she was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and in 2008, Chartered Member status with the Chartered Institute of Personal Development.
Dr Debbie Reed said: “I am delighted to have been nominated and to have received such a precious award from the British Association of Dental Nurses as it celebrates its 80th anniversary.
“I am honoured to be acknowledged for the contribution I have made, in respect to extending the career possibilities for dental nurses through education and development. I am humbled to know that I have been an inspiration to others.
“As an academic and a Doctor of Education, I am reassured to know that my work and research is valued, and moreover has had a practical application, in terms of the transformational opportunities it has provided, and will continue to provide, to those employed in the dental sector.
“It is a privilege to have been recognised by my dental nurse peers, so a heartfelt thank you to BADN and all the dental nurses that BADN so magnificently represents.”
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Dr Reed’s full nomination is available at www.badn.org.uk