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Acadmic Clinical Fellows (ACF)

Research Projects Associated with Acadmic Clinical Fellows (ACF) Posts for August 2026

Each of the ACF posts for August 2026 will be linked to an area of research that is aligned to the expertise and interests of academic staff in research institutes, centres and groups within the College of Heath and Science. While the detailed aspects of the research may change over time (i.e. from the time this job description has been written to the time when an ACF starts working on a project), the broad area of research an ACF will undertake will be similar. It is possible for ACFs to generate an entirely new research project with their supervisor in the early stages of their post but such research will need to be approved by the University of Lincoln CATO-SB.

Further detail of the research areas most closely aligned with the ACF posts offered in 2026:

Response Mode Post (Public Health Medicine or General Practice)

The Community and Health Research Unit's (CaHRU) research areas encompass community healthcare, pre-hospital emergency care, and public health. CaHRU has had historical and ongoing success in grant capture, publication, and research impact (three impact statements in the last REF arose from CaHRU’s work and were rated 4*, 4* and 3*).  Research in this environment would combine well with specialty training in Public Health Medicine or General Practice. 

Recent grant capture successes that involve CaHRU members include: 

  • Integrated models of community service delivery for children and young people in coastal regions of England: A Realist evaluation. Price to funder (NIHR): £154,200. 2025-2027. 
  • Allied Health Professions Workforce Research Partnership: supporting a sustainable and effective Allied Health Professions workforce in rural and coastal regions and in deprived urban areas. Price to funder (NIHR): £806,000. 2025-2030. 

Recent relevant publications include: 

  • The impact of polypharmacy on health outcomes in the aged: A retrospective cohort study. Irene Boateng, Carlos Rodriguez Pascual, Paul Grassby, Zahid Asghar, Kinda Ibrahim (2025) PLoS One 20(2), e0317907. 
  • Effectiveness of a personalised self-management intervention for people living with long covid (Listen trial): pragmatic, multicentre, parallel group, randomised controlled trial. Monica Busse, Philip Pallmann, Muhammad Riaz, Claire Potter, Fiona J Leggat, Shaun Harris, Andrea Jane Longman, Rachel Lowe, Adrian Edwards, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Nick Sevdalis, Jackie McRae, Jessica Fish, Bernadette Sewell, Fiona Jones (2025) BMJ medicine 4(1), e001068. 
  • Pre‐hospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate for transient ischaemic attack: Data from the RIGHT‐2 trial. Jason P Appleton, Mark Dixon, Lisa J Woodhouse, Craig S Anderson, Sandeep Ankolekar, Lesley Cala, Timothy J England, Peter J Godolphin, Kailash Krishnan, Grant Mair, Keith W Muir, John Potter, Chris I Price, Marc Randall, Thompson G Robinson, Christine Roffe, Peter M Rothwell, Else Charlotte Sandset, Jeffrey L Saver, A Niroshan Siriwardena, Joanna M Wardlaw, Nikola Sprigg, Philip M Bath, RIGHT‐2 Investigators (2024) European Journal of Neurology 31(12), e16502. 
  • Supporting health and social care practitioners to transition to academia: A systematic review. Lesley Gratrix, Sharon Black, Rachael Mason, Thomas Parkhouse, Todd Hogue, Marishona Ortega, Ros Kane (2024) Nurse Education Today, pp106517.
Multiple Long Term Conditions Post (Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus or General Practice)

The Diabetes, Inflammation and Metabolism Research Group (Prof C Hills, Prof K Lee, and Prof P Squires) is a successful collaborative research group undertaking laboratory, translational and clinical research in cardiovascular, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases.

Given the co-incident pathophysiological consequences of diabetes, metabolic disease, and cardiovascular conditions, this research is well-aligned with the NIHR Research Theme of Multiple Long Term Conditions, and would combine well with specialty training in Endocrinology & Diabetes Mellitus or General Practice.

There are numerous studies currently ongoing within the partnership in the broad field of cardio-metabolic and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease medicine. These include clinical trials in diabetes, in the management of cardiodiabetes patients post-myocardial infarction (the CArdioMetabolic early-Intervention CAMIS study and the EFSD inflammasome diabetes cardiomechanistic study), in the Vazkepa atherosclerosis inflammasome mechanism of action study (ISRCTN pending).

Recent grant capture successes include: 

  • Lee K, Hills C, Squires P, Inghels M. The role of Vazkepa and the inflammasome in patients with cardiovascular disease with and without type 2 diabetes. Amarin Global Project Grant and University of Lincoln Grant. 2023-27. £170,000 + £30,000. 
  • Hills C, Squires P, (Lee K). Unravelling a mechanistic role for SGLT2 inhibitors in the diabetic kidney. Diabetes UK (Project Grant). 2024-26. £156,683.
  • Lee K, Srinivasan B, Roebuck A. Cardio-metabolic Joint-Working Project Grant, Cardiometabolic Clinical Research Fellow funding and the Cardiometabolic Early Intervention Registry Observational Study. Boehringer-Ingleheim Joint working grant and ULTH research programme funding. 2022-25. £159,000 + £64,000. 

Recent relevant publications include: 

  • Shah MU, Roebuck A, Srinivasan B, Squires PE, Hills CE, Inghels M, Lee K. Optimisation of care among patients with diabetes mellitus and acute coronary syndrome through a specialised cardiodiabetes service – a registry study. Diabet Med. 2025 
  • Markham-Lee Z, Bhagat-Jones S, Carlton J, Frankel A, Fraser S, Habte-Asres HH, Hill C, Kanumilli N, Karalliedde J, Maskell A, McKnight AJ, Morris A, Nitsch D, Otake John N, Parks S, Robinson SJ, Rosenthal M, Rutter MK, Schmutz C, Scullion S, Smith R, Tarm L, Wheeler DC, Newman D, Mistry S, McCafferty K, Hills CE. Research recommendations from the 2024 Breakthrough T1D, Diabetes UK and Kidney Research UK, diabetes and kidney disease expert workshop. Diabet Med. 2025 Feb 27:e70013. doi:10.1111/dme.70013. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40013419. 
  • Karalliedde J, Hills CE. A special issue on from bench to bedside: An integrated and multidisciplinary approach to tackling diabetic kidney disease. Diabet Med. 2025 Feb;42(2):e15501. doi:10.1111/dme.15501. Epub 2024 Dec 15. PMID: 39676274. 
  • Vijay Kunadian, Helen Mossop, Carol Shields, Michelle Bardgett, Philippa Watts, M Dawn Teare, Jonathan Pritchard, Jennifer Adams-Hall, Craig Runnett, David P Ripley, Justin Carter, Julie Quigley, Justin Cooke, David Austin, Jerry Murphy, Damian Kelly, James McGowan, Murugapathy Veerasamy, Dirk Felmeden, Hussain Contractor, Sanjay Mutgi, John Irving, Steven Lindsay, Gavin Galasko, Kelvin Lee, Ayyaz Sultan, Amardeep G Dastidar, Shazia Hussain, Iftikhar Ul Haq, Mark de Belder, Martin Denvir, Marcus Flather, Robert F Storey, David E Newby, Stuart J Pocock, Keith A A Fox. On behalf of The British Heart Foundation SENIOR-RITA Trial Team and Investigators. Invasive versus Conservative Strategy for Older Patients with Myocardial Infarction. New England Journal of Medicine. Sep, 2024. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa 2407791 

ACF positions are advertised by NHS England IAT Guide | NIHR. Vacancies are advertised on Oriel. Applications are open throughout October. Interviews then take place in December with initial offers released in January.