Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

BDS Board of Studies
School of Dental Sciences Senior Tutor for Admissions from 1st September 2004
Chairman, BDS Staff Student Committees for Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
BDS Coordinating Committees for Stage 1 & 2, and for Stages 3, 4 & 5
BDS Examinations Subcommittees for Stages 1 and 2
Outreach Working Party
School of Dental Sciences Admissions Panel

Qualifications

B.Sc (1st Class Honours, Zoology) University of London
Ph.D (Palaeoherpetology) University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Previous Positions

Lecturer in Anatomy, Medical School, University of Aberdeen 1975-1979
Wilfred Hall Research Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1974-1975
Sir James Knott Research Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1973-1974

Memberships

Hon Treasurer/Hon Social Secretary and past President (1999-2000), North of England Odontological Society

Honours and Awards

University of Newcastle Nominee for the DDU Teacher of the Year Award 2003

Informal Interests

A past Staff President of Newcastle Dental Students Society ('DentSoc'), I continue as a keen supporter, and act as Auctioneer for the annual DentSoc Charity Slave Auction.
Choral member (bass), The Northern Praeclassica.

Undergraduate Teaching

The Tooth Morphology and Chronology components of the Introduction to Dentistry course (Stage 1)
Course Leader: Dental Tissues course (Stage 2)
Course Leader: Craniofacial Development course (Stage 2)
Oral Histology contributions to the Oral Environment course (Stage 2)

Postgraduate Teaching

Principal contributor to the annual Craniofacial Development Day (MFDS Course)
Seminars in Craniofacial Development to the MScOrth Course

• Brown DS, Cruickshank ARI. The skull of the Callovian plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus, and the sauropterygian cheek. Palaeontology 1994, 37 (4), 941-953.
• Brown DS. A taxonomic reappraisal of the families Elasmosauridae and Cryptoclididae (Reptilia: Plesiosauroidea).. Revue de Paleobiologie 1993, Vol.spec.No 7, 9-16.
• Brown DS, Keen JA. An extensive marine vertebrate fauna from the Kellaways Sand [Callovian, Middle Jurassic] of Lincolnshire.. Mercian Geologist 1991, 12 (2), 87-96 and 1 Plate.
• Brown DS. The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria.. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology series. 1981, 35 (4), 253-347.