Clinical Academic Careers

Structured research development in your career

Clinical Academic Careers are a more formal way to develop research activity within your role. People who wish to become a clinical academic may have joint roles with local universities or apply for research grants in order to fund their research.

You don’t have to be a clinical academic to get involved in research, but if you want to make research a more substantial part of your job then it could be the route for you.

chantel holding the be part of research hand

Supporting your development as an independent researcher

Clinical academic careers are typically defined by a series of training opportunities to help develop your research and leadership skills to become an independent researcher. To get started on a clinical academic career pathway, several options are available.

Researcher Development Programme

We run a three-day programme to help people learn some basic research skills, meet other research interested clinicians and think about next steps to develop research in their careers.

Find out more

Clinical academic/research taster sessions

Spend time with a clinical academic who will introduce you to the Academy team, share elements of both their clinical and academic roles and where possible arrange to have you observe research in action.

Research Internships

Research internships offer a small amount of funding to buy you out of your clinical role to develop a small-scale project or explore different aspects of research in practice. These can be a great steppingstone onto larger funding awards that can support formal research training.

Academy Research Discovery Internship award (details will be available soon).
Across the Wessex region the Wessex Applied Research Collaborative (ARC) offer internship schemes. If you would like to find out about opportunities, you can visit their website or join our mailing list.