NIHR Academy IAT research themes supported at Sheffield

NIHR allocates posts via a funding formula (50%) and a competitive bidding process (50%).

For the IAT competition; ACFs and CLs are based in research themes identified as priority areas by the DHSC and  NIHR. These research themes are multi-disciplinary in nature and cover a wide spread of potential clinical specialities. For these posts, the research conducted specifically supports a research theme. 

The competitive research themes that are supported at Sheffield are:

• Platform Science and Bioinformatics
• Epidemiology and Public Health 
• Therapeutics or Clinical Pharmacology 
• Health Needs of Older People 
• Dementia
• Acute Care 
• Mental Health 
• Multimorbidity at Any Age