Prizes and Grants

ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATION PRIZES

CALL FOR PAPERS!

We invite you to submit an abstract of a paper to be presented at the 2027 DSTG Symposium.

Oral Presentations

Prizes will be available for the oral presentation judged to be the best at the Symposium.

1st prize: £150 plus complimentary registration

2nd prize: £100 plus complimentary registration

3rd prize: £50 plus complimentary registration

The number of presentation slots will be limited and so please make sure that you submit your abstract before 5pm on 23 March

Poster Presentations

A prize of £150 will be available for the poster presentation judged to be the best at the Symposium.

The number of presentation boards will be limited and so please make sure that you submit your abstract before 5pm on 23 March.

Submission deadline: 5pm on 23 March (receipt will be acknowledged)

Your abstract should be a Word document emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please refer to the DSTG guidance for writing symposium abstracts .

Acceptance decision: 6 April

SEDATION RELATED TEACHING RESOURCE GRANT

The Dental Sedation Teachers Group would like to invite members to apply for a grant, of up to £3,000, to produce a sedation related teaching resource. The resource can be online, videos, computer assisted learning, traditional printed media or a new innovative idea. It should be related to clinical conscious sedation or anxiety management and be a useful teaching resource. Resources aimed at training or CPD for Sedation Teachers/local supervisors (i.e. train the trainer) will also be considered. Simple cannulation videos are unlikely to be accepted and priority will be given to innovative or sound educational theory based applications.

There may be multiple awards of smaller budget grants so applications of small medium and larger projects are welcome.

Final projects will be made available to DSTG members and DSTG will hold any copyright associated. Patients should not be used unless there is a clear indication of why this is necessary and how GDPR will be followed.

Applicants should write a protocol detailing:

The educational aims and objectives

Details of those people who will be involved

What currently is available and how this project will be useful

How will this project specifically benefit students/sedation teachers

How assessments (if used) will be quality assured (and be both reliable and valid)

How the finished project will be distributed and promoted

Timelines (up to 6 months)

Funding and budget management responsibilities.

Deadline: 28 February

For further information please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please email proposals to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. A DSTG subcommittee will review the applications and applicants may be required to attend an online interview. The committee may decide not to award the grant this year if proposals do not meet the required specification. The successful application will be announced in the newsletter/at the symposium.