YHFS Academic Foundation Programmes
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
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 21-Jul 22)
|
Supervisor |
Clinical Specialty |
Project description |
1 |
Prof Else Guthrie |
Psychiatry |
Characterising the clinical activity of liaison psychiatry services |
2 |
Prof Else Guthrie |
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 Else Guthrie |
Psychiatry |
Validating a clinical tool for measuring outcome in liaison psychiatry |
4 |
Prof Else Guthrie |
Psychiatry |
Depression and physical illness-prevalence and course in surgical patients |
5 |
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] |
6 |
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] |
7 |
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] |
8 |
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] |
9 |
Dr Ann Henry |
Clinical Oncology |
Delivering radiotherapy in patients with Cancer and Dementia: Understanding patient pathways and outcomes |
10 |
Dr Adel Samson Dr Steve Griffin |
Medical Oncology |
Virus-mediated immunotherapy for liver tumours.
|
11 |
Dr Darren Treanor |
Histopathology (Digital Pathology) |
Evaluating new systems for digital pathology |
12 |
Dr Darren Treanor |
Histopathology (Digital Pathology) |
Are you sure it’s cancer? Cognition, error and image quality in diagnostic pathology |
13 |
Dr Darren Treanor |
Histopathology (Digital Pathology) |
Artificial intelligence and digital pathology for the diagnosis of cancer |
14 |
Ms Grainne Bourke |
Plastic Surgery |
Patient related outcome measures in children's hand surgery. Several options for projects here to link with national and international outcomes assessments in congenital hand surgery |
15 |
Ms Grainne Bourke |
Plastic Surgery |
Functional Rotational limb range in adolescence with and without nerve injury |
16 |
Ms Grainne Bourke |
Plastic Surgery |
Patient related outcome measures after hand trauma. Is there a gender difference in evaluation |
17 |
Ms Grainne Bourke |
Plastic Surgery |
Evaluation of nerve repair after injury - imaging\ clinical \neurophysiology |
18 |
Prof Hemant Pandit |
Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery |
Direct Anterior Approach for Total Hip Arthroplasty – clinical and cost-effectiveness |
19 |
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 |
20 |
Dr Anthony Howard
|
Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery
|
How we manage polytrauma - evaluation of the physiological and psychological pathways |
21 |
Dr Anthony Howard |
Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery |
Consent and trauma surgery a prospective study. |
22 |
Dr Anthony Howard |
Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery |
Study into medical error in surgery both in the UK and Internationally |
23 |
Dr Anthony Howard |
Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery |
Management of Trauma Surgery in South America - A Dephi Study |
24 |
Dr Anthony Howard |
Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery |
Pilot Studies for an RCT in common orthopaedic conditions |
25 |
Prof Dermot Burke |
General Surgery |
Improving outcomes of emergency general surgery |
26 |
Prof Dermot Burke |
General Surgery |
Identification of patients at risk of aspiration pneumonia after abdominal surgery |
27 |
Prof Dermot Burke |
General Surgery |
Improving outcomes for patients with intestinal failure. |
28 |
Mr Chris Derham Mr Ryan Mathew |
Neurosurgery |
Biomechanical stability of the cervical spine. Pathological processes implicated in degenerative cervical disc disease. |
29 |
Mr Ryan Mathew Matthew Smith |
Neurosurgery |
Is immersive technologies in the neurorehabilitation of neurosurgical patients feasible and does it increase engagement with therapy. |
30 |
Mr Ryan Mathew |
Neurosurgery |
Evaluating immersive technology for patient consultation and MDT working |
31 |
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. |
32 |
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”
|
33 |
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 |
34 |
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. |
35 |
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. |
36 |
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. |
37 |
Prof Simon Howell Richard Wakefield Ai Lyn Tan |
Anaesthesia/Intensive Care |
Assessment of frailty and sarcopenia in surgical patients using ultrasound imaging of muscle |
38 |
Prof Simon Howell |
Anaesthesia |
Pain management in patients undergoing major body cavity surgery: do opiate sparing strategies improve quality of recovery? |
39 |
Prof Simon Howell |
Anaesthesia |
Targeting exercise prehabilitation strategies in older surgical patients. Is effective training feasible in a limited time window? |
40 |
Prof Simon Howell |
Anaesthesia |
Health informatics Assessing co-morbidity in surgical patients using routine hospital data |
41 |
Dr Ramzi Ajjan |
Endocrinology |
Double diabetes and mental health: an overlooked part of patient care |
42 |
Dr Ramzi Ajjan |
Endocrinology |
Mortality reduction following severe hypoglycaemia: the role of structured intervention |
43 |
Dr Ramzi Ajjan |
Endocrinology |
Double diabetes and risk of cardiovascular complications |
44 |
Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson |
Rheumatology |
Assessing signalling events in the Fc gamma receptor FcgRIIa: an important therapeutic target |
45 |
Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson |
Rheumatology |
Optimising therapeutic monoclonal antibody design for autoimmunity and cancer |
46 |
Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson |
Rheumatology |
Unravelling how autoantibodies potentiate rheumatoid arthritis through studying Fcg Receptor biology |
47 |
Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Aruna Chakrabarty |
Rheumatology |
Can blindness and ischaemic symptoms in giant cell arteritis be predicted by histological features? |
48 |
Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Aruna Chakrabarty |
Rheumatology |
Does macrophage polarization in giant cell arteritis tissue biopsies predict response to treatment? |
49 |
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? |
50 |
Dr Sarah Mackie |
Rheumatology |
Defining relapse in polymyalgia rheumatica. |
51 |
Dr Sarah Mackie |
Rheumatology |
Improving clinical decisions in management of giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica |
52 |
Dr Sarah Mackie |
Rheumatology |
Image analysis of patient-completed mannequin diagrams to expedite socially- distanced evaluation of polymyalgia rheumatica, giant cell arteritis and their mimics. |
53 |
Prof Ann Morgen Prof Andrew Scarsbrook Dr Harry Tsoumpas |
Rheumatology |
Enhancing imaging analysis and reporting in large vessel vasculitis through novel analytical techniques. |
54 |
Prof Philip Conaghan Dr Sarah Kingsbury |
Rheumatology |
E-rehabilitation for chronic musculoskeletal pain' with the same supervisory team. |
55 |
Prof Philip Conaghan Dr Sarah Kingsbury |
Rheumatology |
The impact, burden and care of musculoskeletal conditions in the NHS workforce |
56 |
Prof Anne-Maree Keenan Prof Anthony Redmond |
Rheumatology/Diabetes |
Foot Stress Fractures in Peri-menopausal Women: incidence and impact |
57 |
Prof Andy Scarsbrook |
Radiology |
Prediction of patient outcome in cervical squamous cell carcinoma following chemoradiotherapy - comparative effectiveness of MRI and FDG imaging |
58 |
Dr Peter Swoboda |
Cardiology (Cardiac MRI) |
Mechanisms and significance of cardiac fibrosis detected by MRI in endurance athletes |
59 |
Dr Peter Swoboda |
Cardiology (Cardiac MRI) |
Cardiac MRI assessment of fibrosis in patients with heart failure and type 2 diabetes |
60 |
Dr Klaus Witte, Dr Richard Cubbon, Prof Mark Kearney |
Cardiology |
Defining the contribution of skeletal muscle dysfunction to symptoms of heart failure |
61 |
Dr Richard Cubbon, Dr Stephen Wheatcroft, Prof Mark Kearney |
Cardiology |
Defining how diabetes and obesity accelerate the development of vascular disease |
62 |
Dr Andrew Walker, Dr Richard Cubbon, Prof Mark Kearney |
Cardiology |
Understanding factors that promote healthy cardiovascular ageing |
63 |
Dr Erica Dall’Armellina, Prof Jurgen Schneider, Prof Sven Plein |
Cardiology |
Understanding myocardial fibres and their deformation: a CMR study |
64 |
Dr Eylem Levelt, Dr Richard Cubbon, Dr Klaus Witte |
Cardiology |
How does diabetes influence heart failure re-hospitalisation? |
65 |
Dr Eylem Levelt, Prof Eleanor Scott, Prof Sven Plein |
Cardiology |
Multiparametric MRI phenotyping study in gestational diabetes |
66 |
Dr Malenka Bissell |
Paediatric cardiology/Neonatology |
Early confirmative diagnosis of coarctation of the aorta using neonatal feed and wrap MRI |
There are additional projects available in Histopathology with the following supervisors – please contact for further details |
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67 |
Ms Kathryn Griffin |
Histopathology |
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68 |
Dr Kate Marks |
Histopathology |
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69 |
Dr Caroline Young |
Histopathology |
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.