NIHR Training Advocates
NIHR Academic Training Advocates are ambassadors for clinical led research and clinical academic careers. They promote NIHR training and career opportunities, and support clinicians embarking on or developing their own research career.
If you are an aspiring or early career clinical academic, or an organisation developing clinical academic careers, our advocates may be able to advise you.
Find an Advocate
Dietetics and Nutrition
Lead advocate: Professor Gary Frost - g.frost@imperial.ac.uk
Associate Professor Steve Wootton - saw@soton.ac.uk
Professor Mary Hickson - mary.hickson@plymouth.ac.uk
Dr Linda Wedlake - linda.wedlake@rmh.nhs.uk
Healthcare Science
Dr Owen Driskell - owen.driskell@nihr.ac.uk
Dr Jane Freeman- jane.freeman4@nhs.net
Dr Samantha Irving - s.irving@rbht.nhs.uk
Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green - Elaine.cloutman-green@gosh.nhs.uk
Midwifery
Lead advocate: Professor Jane Sandall - jane.sandall@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Annette Briley - annette.l.briley@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Kirstie Coxon - K.Coxon@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Dr Sara Kenyon - s.kenyon@bham.ac.uk
Dr Vikki Smith - vikki.smith@northumbria.ac.uk
Nursing
Lead advocate: Professor Dave Richards - d.a.richards@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Bailey - sarahl.bailey@soton.ac.uk
Professor Caroline Nicholson - c.nicholson@surrey.ac.uk
Professor Caroline Watkins - clwatkins@uclan.ac.uk
Dr Theresa Wiseman - theresa.wiseman@rmh.nhs.uk
Occupational Therapy
Lead advocate: Professor Pip Logan - pip.logan@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor Jo Adams - ja@soton.ac.uk
Dr Sally Fowler-Davis - s.fowler-davis@shu.ac.uk
Dr Christina Jerosch-Herold - c.jerosch-herold@uea.ac.uk
Dr Niina Kolehmainen - niina.kolehmainen@newcastle.ac.uk
Pharmacy
Dr David Alldred - d.p.alldred@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Ian Maidment - i.maidment@aston.ac.uk
Physiotherapy
Lead advocate: Professor Nadine Foster - n.foster@keele.ac.uk
Dr Caroline Alexander - caroline.alexander@imperial.ac.uk
Professor Anne Forster - a.forster@leeds.ac.uk
Associate Professor Lisa Roberts - l.c.roberts@soton.ac.uk
Professor Sally Singh - sally.singh@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
Psychology Practitioners
Professor Cathy Creswell - cathy.creswell@psych.ox.ac.uk
Podiatry
Lead advocate: Professor Anne-Maree Keenan - a.keenan@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Lindsey Cherry - l.cherry@soton.ac.uk
Radiography
Dr Carole Burnett - carole.burnett1@nhs.net
Speech and Language Therapy
Dr Roganie Govender - Roganie.Govender@nhs.net
Dr Jackie McRae - Jackie.mcrae@nhs.net
Professor Jo Patterson - joanne.patterson@liverpool.ac.uk