Foundation West Yorkshire Academic Posts | Health Education Yorkshire and Humber

West Yorkshire (WY) Academic Posts

18 Academic Research Programmes.
3 Academic Research Placements in General Practice
Enrolment on the Postgraduate Certificate in Health Research

The full academic rotations for YHFS are available at the bottom of the page (filter by West).

How to Apply

For details of how to apply, please see our Recruitment and Retention section. If you have any queries, please contact foundation.yh@hee.nhs.uk

What Does WY Offer to Academic Trainees?

Within West Yorkshire there are 21 Academic Foundation Training Programmes. These incorporate a standard F1 training programme and an F2 training programme which includes a 4 month academic research attachment at the University of Leeds and enrolment onto the Postgraduate Certificate in Health Research.

18 of the Academic Foundation Research Placements are offered in research areas linked to a broad range of clinical specialties
3 of the Academic Foundation Placements are in Primary Care

Projects and Supervisors

West Yorkshire Academic Foundation placements are available with the following supervisors in the research areas indicated below. Please indicate three projects you would be interested in undertaking in order of preference by emailing Jo Bentley (J.Bentley@leeds.ac.uk) who will then put you in touch with the appropriate academic. If there is not a project offered in a particular specialty you are interested in pursuing research in contact Jo Bentley (J.Bentley@leeds.ac.uk) to discuss and we will advise you.

Academic Foundation Projects and Supervisors – West Yorkshire (for 4-month F2 projects in Aug 20-Jul 21)

	Supervisor	Clinical Specialty	Project description
1	Prof Else Guthrie	Psychiatry	Characterising the clinical activity of liaison psychiatry services
2	Prof Allan House	Psychiatry	Repeated self-harm: reasons for which people repeatedly self-harm; use of social media by people who self-harm; developing new interventions
3	Prof Allan House	Psychiatry	The nature and treatment of medically unexplained symptoms
4	Prof Allan House	Psychiatry	Living with long term conditions: understanding those with severe or complex problems of adjustment
5	Prof Else Guthrie	Psychiatry	Validating a clinical tool for measuring outcome in liaison psychiatry
6	Prof Else Guthrie	Psychiatry	A systematic review of high cost patients with medically unexplained symptoms
7	Prof Mike Bennett Dr Matt Mulvey	Palliative Medicine	Quantifying cancer pain: investigating the association between self-reported pain and altered pain processing (neurophysiological mechanisms) in patients with cancer pain using Quantitative Sensory Testing [Training in QST and patient data collection]
8	Prof Mike Bennett Dr Matthew Allsop	Palliative Medicine	Variations in palliative care duration before death for specific cancer and non-cancer diseases, and associated patient or service characteristics [Training in stats for analysis of big data sets]
9	Prof Mike Bennett Dr Maggie Fu	Palliative Medicine	Developing palliative care self-management support tools for patients with advanced COPD [Training in intervention development and patient evaluation]
10	Prof Mike Bennett Dr Gemma Clarke	Palliative Medicine	Understanding access to palliative care by ethnic minority groups in UK: analysis of qualitative or healthcare record data [Training in ethnicity research and data analytics]
11	Prof Ann Henry	Clinical Oncology	Delivering radiotherapy in patients with Cancer and Dementia: Understanding patient pathways and outcomes
12	Dr Adel Samson Dr Steve Griffin	Medical Oncology	Non-replicating viral immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma
13	Prof Phil Quirke	Histopathology	3D visualization of early development of bowel cancer using the novel iDIsco technique
14	Prof Phil Quirke	Histopathology	Investigating the immune response in bowel cancer - the microbiome and colonic inflammation
15	Prof Phil Quirke	Histopathology	Use of the new 3 dimensional light sheet microscope to study tumour invasion in bowel cancer
16	Dr Darren Treanor	Histopathology (Digital Pathology)	Evaluating new systems for digital pathology
17	Dr Darren Treanor	Histopathology (Digital Pathology)	Are you sure it’s cancer? Cognition, error and image quality in diagnostic pathology
18	Dr Darren Treanor	Histopathology (Digital Pathology)	“Artificial intelligence and digital pathology for the diagnosis of cancer"
19	Prof Rory O’Connor Prof Hemant Pandit	Rehabilitation Medicine	Evaluating cognitive impairment following major trauma or anaesthesia
20	Prof Rory O’Connor Prof Hemant Pandit	Rehabilitation Medicine	Technology-enhanced prehabilitation prior to total knee replacement
21	Ms Grainne Bourke	Plastic Surgery	Patient related outcome measures in children's hand surgery. This project would focus on duplicate thumb.
22	Ms Grainne Bourke	Plastic Surgery	Soft tissue tumours in the hand - pathway evaluation, demographics and patterns of disease.
23	Ms Grainne Bourke	Plastic Surgery	Patient related outcome measures after hand trauma. This project would focus on fingertip injury and consequences for the working population.
24	Prof Hemant Pandit	Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery	Direct Anterior Approach for Total Hip Arthroplasty – clinical and cost-effectiveness
25	Prof Hemant Pandit Prof Simon Howell	Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery – perioperative medicine	Perioperative Risk Stratification and Modification in Patients Undergoing Elective Joint Arthroplasty – impact of ethnicity
26	Dr Anthony Howard	Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery	How we manage polytrauma - evaluation of the physiological and psychological pathways
27	Dr Anthony Howard	Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery	Consent and trauma surgery a prospective study.
28	Dr Anthony Howard	Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery	Study into medical error in surgery both in the UK and Internationally
29	Prof Dermot Burke	General Surgery	A trial to prevent post operative infection following colorectal surgery
30	Mr Chris Derham Dr Ryan Mathews	Neurosurgery	Biomechanical stability of the cervical spine. Pathological processes implicated in degenerative cervical disc disease.
31	Dr Ryan Mathews Matthew Smith	Neurosurgery	Is immersive technologies in the neurorehabilitation of neurosurgical patients feasible and does it increase engagement with therapy.
32	Dr Ryan Mathews	Neurosurgery	Evaluating Microsoft HoloLens immersive technology for neuronavigation.
33	Dr Ryan Mathews Mrs Suzanne Spink.	Neurosurgery	Can neurolinguistic pattern recognition using machine learning detect brain tumours?
34	Prof Julian Scott Dr Marc Bailey Mr Mohammed Waduud	Vascular Surgery	Multi-morbidity and mortality in vascular surgery. Task: Refine existing datasets with co-morbidity data. Analyse outcomes in relation to no. of morbidity cut offs and identify trends.
35	Dr Marc Bailey Mr Mohammed Waduud Dr Russell Frood Prof Julian Scott	Vascular Surgery	Unveiling hidden data in CT scans in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm to predict disease progression using radiomics”
36	Prof Julian Scott Dr Marc Bailey Mr Mohammed Waduud	Vascular Surgery	Mortality following intervention turndown in AAA disease. Task: Use M&M and the virtual clinic notes to identify AAA intervention turndown cohort and compare outcomes to the intervened cohort of patients
37	Prof Julian Scott Dr Marc Bailey Mr Mohammed Waduud	Vascular Surgery	Outcomes associated with peripheral compartment syndrome. Task: Identify cohort of patient who have undergone fasciotomies at the Leeds Vascular Institute and identify morbidity outcomes.
38	Prof Julian Scott Dr Marc Bailey Mr Mohammed Waduud	Vascular Surgery	Management and outcomes of upper limb DVTs in a tertiary vascular centre. Task: Identify cases of upper limb DVTs from an existing dataset and collect/refine patient outcome data.
39	Prof Julian Scott Dr Marc Bailey Mr Mohammed Waduud	Vascular Surgery	Cost effectiveness of the Leeds Vascular Institute ultrasound graft surveillance programme. Task: To audit the last 12 months of graft surveillance in Leeds (and subsequent intervention) and determine the cost effectiveness of the programme.
40	Prof Simon Howell	Anaesthesia/Intensive Care	Developing personalised anaesthetic and perioperative care for frail high risk patient
41	Prof Simon Howell	Anaesthesia	Use of digital tools in surgical pre-assessment
42	Prof Simon Howell	Anaesthesia	Mechanisms of sarcopenia. We are planning work with colleagues in biological sciences on the biological mechanisms of acute muscle loss following surgery. These include the inflammatory and endocrine responses to surgery and the subsequent molecular changes.
43	Prof Simon Howell	Anaesthesia	Big data analyses. We have access to a large ResearchOne dataset of patients who have undergone surgery. This includes data the electronic frailty index. The thrust here is to bring primary care data to both the assessment of frailty and the follow-up of patients following surgery.
44	Prof Simon Howell	Anaesthesia	Pre and postoperative exercise training. We are collaborating with colleagues in Sports Science using novel exercise modalities to for physical training in elderly patients.
45	Prof Simon Howell	Anaesthesia	Health Services Research. We are collaborating with colleagues in Psychology on research into the working of clinical teams and MDTs when dealing with high risk patients and the management of blocks to changing clinical and patient behaviours.
46	Dr Ramzi Ajjan Dr Afroze Abbas	Endocrinology	Cardiovascular risk in hyperparathyroidism: the role of thrombosis
47	Dr Ramzi Ajjan	Endocrinology	Mortality reduction following severe hypoglycaemia: the role of structured intervention
48	Dr Ramzi Ajjan	Endocrinology	Thrombosis risk and dysglycaemia following myocardial infarction
49	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson	Rheumatology	Assessing signalling events in the Fc gamma receptor FcgRIIa: an important therapeutic target
50	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson	Rheumatology	Optimising therapeutic monoclonal antibody design for autoimmunity and cancer
51	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson	Rheumatology	Unravelling how autoantibodies potentiate rheumatoid arthritis through studying Fcg Receptor biology
52	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Aruna Chakrabarty	Rheumatology	Can blindness and ischaemic symptoms in giant cell arteritis be predicted by histological features?
53	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Aruna Chakrabarty	Rheumatology	Does macrophage polarization in giant cell arteritis tissue biopsies predict response to treatment?
54	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie	Rheumatology	Can response to steroids be predicted at disease onset in in giant cell arteritis? Can we identify patients who require additional immunosuppressant therapy/biologics at presentation?
55	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie	Rheumatology	How do we know our treatment has worked? Validation of key patient-reported outcome measures in polymyalgia rheumatica.
56	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie	Rheumatology	Predictors of patient-reported steroid toxicity in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis.
57	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie	Rheumatology	Could mannequin diagrams have diagnostic utility in patients with suspected polymyalgia rheumatica?
58	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Charlotte Harden	Rheumatology	Diet and nutrition in patients with giant cell arteritis.
59	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Ana Tiganescu Dr Charlotte Harden	Rheumatology	Steroid Education: evaluation of patient's knowledge of the side-effects of long-terms steroid use
60	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Charlotte Harden	Rheumatology	NETIMIS project: service evaluation of patients with giant cell arteritis within the LTHT using web-based computer simulation
61	Prof Ann Morgen Prof Andrew Scarsbrook Dr Harry Tsoumpas	Rheumatology	Enhancing PET-CT analysis and reporting in large vessel vasculitis through novel analytical techniques.
62	Prof Philip Conaghan Dr Sarah Kingsbury	Rheumatology	The relationship of changes in physical activity with pain in a large cohort of people with osteoarthritis with 8 year follow-up
63	Prof Philip Conaghan Dr Sarah Kingsbury	Rheumatology	The impact, burden and care of musculoskeletal conditions in the NHS workforce
64	Dr Ed Vital Dr Miriam Wittmann	Rheumatology	Explaining, predicting and preventing the onset of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in people at risk
65	Prof Anne-Maree Keenan Prof Anthony Redmond	Rheumatology/Diabetes	Foot Stress Fractures in Peri-menopausal Women: incidence and impact
66	Prof Anthony Redmond Dr Andrew Grainger Dr Jill Halstead	Rheumatology/Radiology	Supplement to the La Trobe Foot (Radiographic) Atlas for Osteoarthritis: development and validation of a scoring system based on oblique view X-rays.
67	Prof Anthony Redmond Dr David Lunn	Rheumatology	Proficiency in performing activities of daily living following total hip replacement
68	Prof Andy Scarsbrook	Radiology	Prediction of patient outcome in anal squamous cell carcinoma following chemoradiatherapy - comparative effectiveness of MRI and FDG PET-CT
69	Prof Andy Scarsbrook Dr Russell	Radiology	Exploring the utility of artificial intelligence for characterisation of incidental adrenal lesions detected on CT
70	Dr Peter Swoboda	Cardiology (Cardiac MRI)	Mechanisms and significance of cardiac fibrosis detected by MRI in endurance athletes
71	Dr Peter Swoboda	Cardiology (Cardiac MRI)	Cardiac MRI assessment of fibrosis in patients with heart failure and type 2 diabetes
72	Dr Klaus Witte, Dr Richard Cubbon, Prof Mark Kearney	Cardiology	Defining the contribution of skeletal muscle dysfunction to symptoms of heart failure
73	Dr Richard Cubbon, Dr Stephen Wheatcroft, Prof Mark Kearney	Cardiology	Defining how diabetes and obesity accelerate the development of vascular disease
74	Dr Andrew Walker, Dr Richard Cubbon, Prof Mark Kearney	Cardiology	Understanding factors that promote healthy cardiovascular ageing
75	Dr Erica Dall’Armellina, Prof Jurgen Schneider, Prof Sven Plein	Cardiology	Understanding myocardial fibres and their deformation: a CMR study
76	Dr Eylem Levelt, Dr Richard Cubbon, Dr Klaus Witter	Cardiology	How does diabetes influence heart failure re-hospitalisation?
77	Dr Eylem Levelt, Prof Eleanor Scott, Prof Sven Plein	Cardiology	Multiparametric MRI phenotyping study in gestational diabetes
78	Dr Malenka Bissell	Cardiology	Advanced Cardiac MRI Assessment in Tetralogy of Fallot to guide timing of interventions
79	Dr Christopher Mannion	Medical Education	Education in human factors – looking at the medical team.
80	Dr Christopher Mannion	Medical Education	Feedback and reflection in Foundation Years doctors.
81	Dr Christopher Mannion	Medical Education	Multi professional working and the educational impact on training.
82	Dr Christopher Mannion	Medical Education	Inter professional education in the context of 'one health'- working across veterinary and medical education (linked to University of Surrey School of Veterinary Medicine).

Placements in Primary Care

Academic Foundation Placements in Primary Care – West Yorkshire

Why primary care?

Primary care is a diverse, challenging and exciting speciality which brings together acute care, continuing care and prevention. Primary care in the UK is responsible for both individual and population-based approaches to healthcare and health – so it offers a chance to make a real difference to individual patients and whole communities. Up to 90% of patient contacts with the NHS occur in primary care. International comparisons indicate that strong primary care systems are associated with better population health, narrowing of inequalities and reduced costs.

Why academic primary care at Leeds?

We have a vibrant and growing academic team. Academic primary care is integrated within the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (LIHS), thereby ensuring an interdisciplinary approach incorporating expertise in research methods, behavioural sciences, health economics, informatics and statistics.

Research

We can offer opportunities to become involved in or lead projects which span a range of evaluation methods, such as systematic reviews, qualitative studies and quantitative studies.

We possess particular strengths in:

Primary care oncology - particularly early diagnosis of cancer and survivorship (led by Professor Richard Neal);
The health and wellbeing of older people; trials of complex healthcare interventions (led by Professor Suzanne Richards); and
Implementation science – understanding and changing professional behaviour to improve the uptake of evidence-based practice (led by Professor Robbie Foy).

Education

Primary care has a central role in the Leeds medical undergraduate curriculum with a well-established and successful spiral curriculum. Our GP team has a track record of educational innovation and scholarship, including leading projects to widen participation and selection of entrants to medicine, and playing a key role in the development of educational resources such as clinical skills e books and cases for the Virtual Community. We are leading the conceptualisation, development and testing of a personalised adaptive learning system (MyPAL@Leeds), which is a major contributor to School strategy in medical education.

This placement will therefore be of interest to doctors who wish to combine learning about research and/or teaching methods with opportunities to make a difference to patient care and outcomes.

Documents:

2020-2022 YHFS AFP Placements

WY Academic Foundation - Postgraduate Courses in Health Research