Career stories

Explore interviews with clinical academics who share their career paths and experiences. These stories offer insight into academic life and support those considering or developing a clinical academic career.

Profession

Medicine
Dentistry
Pharmacy
Veterinary Medicine
Nursing, Midwifery & AHPs

Theme

Overcoming adversity
Women in academia
Diversity
Alternative routes
Navigating clinical workload
Day in the life
Balancing family commitments

Career stage

Independent Researcher/Senior Leadership
Undergraduate
Pre-doctoral
Doctoral
Early Post-Doctoral
Later Post-Doctoral

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“I'm looking forward to giving back by helping grow the next generation of clinical academics.”

Dr Eugene Tang

NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle University and a General Practitioner.

“I feel that ideas for research should come from working with patients on a day-to-day basis.”

Dr Lorraine Cowley

Genetic Counsellor at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Clinical Academic Research Partnership (CARP) fellow.

“Knowing the destination of your research is important, but the route to get there can change along the way.”

Dr Ken Baker

Senior Clinical Fellow at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, Newcastle Freeman Hospital.

“It is vital to find appropriate ways to improve and coordinate care for people living with multiple long-term conditions.”

Dr Felicity Dewhurst

Consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Oswald's Hospice and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

“My fellowship supports me to undertake key training to not only enable me to deliver the project to a high standard, but also to help shape me as a future research leader.”

Dr Helen Rogers

Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry, Newcastle University.

“The NIHR In-Practice Fellowship is an incredible opportunity that will allow me to develop as a researcher without stepping away from my clinical work.”

Kayleigh Davison

Lead Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner and NIHR In-Practice Fellow, Newcastle University.

“My internship gave me hands-on experience around many aspects of research studies, types of studies, methods and ethics.”

Dr Rosheen El Fatihi

Mental Health Nurse and NIHR INSIGHT Master’s in Research student at Teesside University. 

“A PhD isn’t about being a genius – it’s about commitment, curiosity and endurance. Nurses are excellent at all three.”

Dr Charlotte Gordon

Assistant Professor of Nursing at Northumbria University.

“My research focus has increasingly turned towards workforce issues and training, areas that have a huge impact on disabled doctors' careers.”

Dr Megan Brown

Senior Research Associate in the School of Medicine at Newcastle University and Community Involvement and Engagement Lead within Workforce Voices.

“I’d really like to encourage women into surgery and academia. Women have a huge amount to contribute in these spaces, and I really believe they can thrive, if they just go for it. ”

Dr Emily Thompson

Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University.

“Those early conversations often become the foundation for future collaborations.”

Dr Nehal Hassan

Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy at Newcastle University.

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Case study

“The NHRP Academy were really great at getting more established researchers to look through my application and set up mock interviews that were even more robust than the real thing.”

Dr Wezi Sendama

Consultant in respiratory medicine at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) Newcastle and an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow.

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