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 Allocation Process 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

Academic Foundation Projects and Supervisors – West Yorkshire (for 4-month F2 projects in Aug 2019 - July 2020)

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.

	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	A systematic review of high cost patients with depression and anxiety
6	Prof Else Guthrie	Psychiatry	A systematic review of high cost patients with medically unexplained symptoms
7	Prof Mike Bennett	Palliative Medicine	Impact of age on quality of end of life care and place of death
8	Prof Mike Bennett	Palliative Medicine	Factors associated with different opioid dose trajectories in the last months of life
9	Prof Mike Bennett	Palliative Medicine	Determining thresholds for clinical response to blood transfusion and factors that influence this
10	Prof Mike Bennett	Palliative Medicine	Variations in palliative care duration before death for specific cancer and non-cancer diseases, and associated patient or service characteristics
11	Prof Ann Henry	Clinical Oncology	Analysing patterns of relapse following Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) to optimise patient selection
12	Dr Adel Samson Dr Steve Griffin	Medical Oncology	Suppression of Human Papilloma Virus, using oncolytic virus-based immunotherapy, to enhance anti-cancer efficacy
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)	Computerised image analysis 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
25	Prof Hemant Pandit Prof Simon Howell	Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery – perioperative medicine	Perioperative Risk Stratification and Modification in Patients Undergoing Elective Joint Arthroplasty
26	Dr Anthony Howard	Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery	Prospective study into surgical optimisation of trauma patients with the comorbidities associated with obesity.
27	Dr Anthony Howard	Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery	Undertaking a prospective analysis of Polytrauma patients and consent to surgical treatment
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	Treatment of complex abdominal infections
30	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.
31	Prof Julian Scott Dr Marc Bailey Mr Mohammed Waduud	Vascular Surgery	Deprivation related mortality in vascular surgery. Task: identify patient deprivation score in patients in undergoing index vascular interventions (AAA, Peripheral bypass, Amputation) and evaluate any association with patient mortality outcomes
32	Prof Julian Scott Dr Marc Bailey Mr Mohammed Waduud	Vascular Surgery	Prognostic value of PET-CT in aortic intervention. Task: identify CT-PET scans performed in our AAA cohort and evaluate whether metabolic activity observed in the AAA sac correlates with disease progression
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 David Jayne Mr Noel Aruparayil	Surgery	NIHR Global Health Research Group in Surgical Technologies: Innovative teaching methods in Anatomy for Low & Middle Income Countries
38	Prof David Jayne Mr Noel Aruparayil	Surgery	NIHR Global Health Research Group in Surgical Technologies: Laparoscopy for Low-Resource Settings: Technology and Training Programme Optimisation - Rural India
39	Prof David Jayne Prof Julian Scott Dr William Bolton	Surgery	NIHR Global Health Research Group in Surgical Technologies: Guidelines for Fracture and Wound Management in Low-Resource Settings
40	Prof David Jayne Prof Julian Scott Dr William Bolton	Surgery	NIHR Global Health Research Group in Surgical Technologies: Surgical Training in Low-Resource Settings: Optimising the use of Models in Training Platforms
41	Prof Simon Howell	Anaesthesia/Intensive Care	Developing personalised anaesthetic and perioperative care for frail high risk patient
42	Prof Simon Howell	Anaesthesia	Use of digital tools in surgical pre-assessment
43	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.
44	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.
45	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.
46	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.
47	Dr Afroze Abbas	Endocrinology	Assessing quality of life in patients with chronic hypoparathyroidism; conventional versus novel therapies
48	Dr Afroze Abbas	Endocrinology	Management and outcomes of osteoporosis in primary hyperparathyroidism– 5 year data
49	Dr Ramzi Ajjan Dr Afroze Abbas	Endocrinology	Cardiovascular risk in hyperparathyroidism: the role of thrombosis
50	Dr Ramzi Ajjan	Endocrinology	Mortality reduction following severe hypoglycaemia: the role of structured intervention
51	Dr Ramzi Ajjan	Endocrinology	Thrombosis risk and dysglycaemia following myocardial infarction
52	Dr Andy Scarsbrook Dr Afroze Abbas Dr Sheila Fraser	Radiology/ Endocrinology/ Endocrine Surgery	Adrenal masses - Assessment and analysis of new multi-disciplinary pathway and outcomes
53	Dr Afroze Abbas Dr Din Kassim	Endocrinology/Diabetes	Evaluation of bone health in patients with Type 1 diabetes - Development and implementation of bone health guidelines in diabetes clinic
54	Mr David Russell Dr Heidi Siddle	Vascular Surgery and Diabetes	Developing and optimising novel off-loading strategies to prevent ulceration in patients with diabetes
55	Mr David Russell Dr Heidi Siddle	Vascular Surgery and Diabetes	Improving pathways of care to optimise outcomes following major lower limb amputation
56	Mr David Russell Dr Heidi Siddle	Vascular Surgery and Diabetes	Enhancing inter-professional shared decision making pathways for patients with critical limb ischaemia
57	Mr David Russell Dr Lee Roberts	Vascular Surgery	The contribution of metabolic perturbation in the subcutaneous adipose tissue of obese and diabetic patients to systemic disease
58	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson	Rheumatology	Assessing signalling events in the Fc gamma receptor FcgRIIa: an important therapeutic target
59	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson	Rheumatology	Optimising therapeutic monoclonal antibody design for autoimmunity and cancer
60	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Euan Baxter Dr Jim Robinson	Rheumatology	Unravelling how autoantibodies potentiate rheumatoid arthritis through studying Fcg Receptor biology
61	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Aruna Chakrabarty	Rheumatology	Can blindness and ischaemic symptoms in giant cell arteritis be predicted by histological features?
62	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Aruna Chakrabarty	Rheumatology	Does macrophage polarization in giant cell arteritis tissue biopsies predict response to treatment?
63	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?
64	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.
65	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie	Rheumatology	Predictors of patient-reported steroid toxicity in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis.
66	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie	Rheumatology	Could mannequin diagrams have diagnostic utility in patients with suspected polymyalgia rheumatica?
67	Prof Ann Morgan Dr Sarah Mackie Dr Charlotte Harden	Rheumatology	Diet and nutrition in patients with giant cell arteritis.
68	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
69	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.
70	Prof Ann Morgen Prof Andrew Scarsbrook Dr Harry Tsoumpas	Rheumatology	Enhancing PET-CT analysis and reporting in large vessel vasculitis through novel analytical techniques.
71	Prof Philip Conaghan Dr Sarah Kingsbury	Rheumatology	The relationship of changes in physical activity with pain and function in people with osteoarthritis
72	Prof Maya Buch Dr Aamir Aslam Dr Sinisa Savic	Rheumatology	Phenotyping and understanding the basis for multi targeted therapy refractory rheumatoid arthritis.
73	Prof Maya Buch Dr Ed Vital Dr Agata Burska Dr Karen Porter	Rheumatology	Investigating inflammatory/immune processes driving increased cardiovascular pathology in autoimmune diseases.
74	Prof Francesco Del Galdo Prof Maya Buch	Rheumatology	Interferon inducible proteins as predictors of severe organ involvement in Systemic Sclerosis.
75	Dr Ed Vital Dr Miriam Wittmann	Rheumatology	Explaining, predicting and preventing the onset of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in people at risk.
76	Prof Anne-Maree Keenan Prof Anthony Redmond	Rheumatology/Diabetes	Foot Stress Fractures in Peri-menopausal Women: incidence and impact.
77	Dr Peter Swoboda	Cardiology (Cardiac MRI)	Mechanisms and significance of cardiac fibrosis detected by MRI in endurance athletes.
78	Dr Peter Swoboda	Cardiology (Cardiac MRI)	Cardiac MRI assessment of fibrosis in patients with heart failure and type 2 diabetes.
79	Dr Richard Cubbon Prof Mark Kearney Prof Klaus Witte	Cardiology	Defining prevalence and predictors of sepsis hospitalisation in patients with chronic heart failure.
80	Dr Christopher Mannion	Medical Education	Education in human factors – looking at the medical team.
81	Dr Christopher Mannion	Medical Education	Feedback and reflection in Foundation Years doctors.
82	Dr Christopher Mannion	Medical Education	Multi professional working and the educational impact on training.
83	Dr Christopher Mannion	Medical Education	Inter professional education in the context of 'one health'- working across veterinary and medical education (linked with 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.

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YHFS Academic Posts

WY Academic Foundation - Postgraduate Courses in Health Research