Research priorities for clinical academic training

Sheffield has identified a range of areas as priorities for clinical academic training. 

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Acute care

Trainees undertake acute care research in the Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE). CURE aims to improve the quality of urgent and emergency care through rigorous objective independent research.

Expertise includes academics in emergency medicine, primary care, anaesthetics and prehospital care, and health service researchers with collaborations in data science, health economics, qualitative research, statistics, PPI groups and the CTRU. 

For further details on training posts under this theme, contact Professor Steve Goodacre.

Neuroscience

Sheffield has developed an international reputation for translational Neuroscience research with a particular focus on advanced therapies, drug repurposing and other novel therapeutic approaches. 

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Trainees will be embedded in the Sheffield NIHR-BRC and also benefit from the excellent research environment provided by the internationally renowned Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) and the Neuroscience Institute 

For further details on training posts under this theme, contact Professor Oliver Bandmann

Public Health

Trainees will have opportunities to work with senior academics within public health research plus access to wider networks and collaborations. The academic trainees will have the opportunity to become involved in the following specific areas: Alcohol harm reduction and health economics, evaluation of policy interventions in various areas of health, well-being and inequalities and in evidence synthesis. 

For further details on training posts under this theme, contact Clinical Academic Training Administration

Cancer research

Yorkshire has some of the lowest survival rates from common cancers in the UK. The University of Sheffield, in collaboration with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, has an ambitious 10-year cancer research strategy for improving outcomes in our populations.

The University is active in all areas of cancer research with international excellence including urological cancers, bone oncology, rare cancers and early-phase trials for novel approaches

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Academic trainees are able to become involved in the following specific areas: 

  • Cancer prevention and early diagnosis
  • Digital health, big data, advanced diagnostic technologies and rethinking the delivery of cancer care
  • Translational and precision cancer medicine
  • Improving the outcomes for cancer patients
  • Improving patient experience and value through PPIE
  • Innovation in patient-reported outcome and experience measures

For further details on training posts under this theme, contact Clinical Academic Training Administration 

Clinical education research

The School of Medicine and Population Health designs medical undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that provide trainees experience in educational research for quality improvements, developing innovative rapid training methods, simulation and inclusive ways of learning.

Trainees will have the opportunity to become involved in the following specific areas: 

Critical Care and safe mechanical ventilation - developing new ways of rapidly training multidisciplinary teams on complex care to respond to future crises- with Professor Gary Mills; 

Palliative Medicine-The innovative Project ECHO vital for addressing the needs of an ageing population, with multi-morbidity and unmet palliative care needs- with Dr Catriona Mayland and Dr Paul Taylor; 

Inclusive Quality Learning- tackling the challenges of sustaining inclusive, quality learning for increasing numbers of diverse learners; Developing non-technical skills through simulation (design to evaluation);plus National opportunities such as the Virtual Primary Care project.

For further details on training posts under this theme, contact Professor Pirashanthie Vivekananda-Schmidt

Other research priority areas

The University of Sheffield has several other areas of significant research strength with track records that are prime for developing future clinical academic careers.

These include

  • the Clinical Infection Research Group
  • the Academic Unit of Gastroenterology
  • Reproduction
  • Endocrinology and Diabetes
  • Paediatrics and Child Health

For further details on training posts under these areas of research, contact Clinical Academic Training Administration 

Centres of excellence

The University's cross-faculty research centres harness our interdisciplinary expertise to solve the world's most pressing challenges.

Centres of excellence