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.
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Dietetics and Nutrition
Associate Professor Steve Wootton - saw@soton.ac.uk
Professor Gary Frost - g.frost@imperial.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
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 Snaith - vikki.snaith@ncl.ac.uk
Nursing
Professor Dave Richards - d.a.richards@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Bailey - sarahl.bailey@soton.ac.uk
Dr Caroline Nicholson- caroline.nicholson@kcl.ac.uk
Professor Caroline Watkins - clwatkins@uclan.ac.uk
Dr Theresa Wiseman - theresa.wiseman@rmh.nhs.uk
Occupational Therapy
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
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 Richard Brown - richard.g.brown@kcl.ac.uk
Professor Cathy Creswell - c.creswell@reading.ac.uk
Dr Isabel Clare - ichc2@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Barney Dunn - b.d.dunn@exeter.ac.uk
Podiatry
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
Dr Jo Patterson - joanne.patterson@ncl.ac.uk