ODRT-BSODR Crispian Scully Research Award
This award is in memory of Crispian Scully CBE, a long-standing Trustee of the Oral and Dental Research Trust (ODRT) and eminent clinical academic, with significant contribution to Special Care Dentistry – a field of oral healthcare, which Professor Scully helped advance in many different ways and championed in his illustrious career.
Applications are being sought to support a programme of research to initiate adventurous and ambitious curiosity-driven research, with potential to open up novel paths of research or result in discipline-shifting discovery, advancing innovation in clinical dentistry. This call is open to all disciplines in oral and dental research.
Funded by the Oral and Dental Research trust and the British Society for Oral and Dental Research, one grant is available in 2026 to dental healthcare professionals and scientists in the UK to a maximum value of £6,000. The award is not intended to cover salary costs of applicants, as a ‘top-up’ to an existing award, or to fund attendance at scientific meetings.
Submission Process
Applications must be submitted using the application form available at https://www.odrt.org.uk/award/the-crispian-scully-award/ via email to the ODRT Honorary Secretary (j.hirschfeld@bham.ac.uk) by 29th May 2026. The receipt of applications will be acknowledged. Should applicants be unable to provide acknowledgement of receipt of their application, the ODRT will not accept that submission has been made.
The ODRT is an NIHR non-commercial partner. As such studies funded by the ODRT are eligible for consideration for inclusion onto the NIHR portfolio. The recipient(s) of the ODRT Crispian Scully Award will be announced during the annual meeting of the British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR). The awardee will need to commit to present their completed project at a BSODR conference (oral or post).
The ODRT Crispian Scully Award is funded jointly by the ODRT and BSODR.