What is a Clinical Lectureship (CL)?
CLs are designed for specialist trainees and newly qualified GPs with a higher degree (PhD or MD).
Most are NIHR-funded but the University of Southampton does offer some locally-funded positions. Both have the same access to resources and support.
CLs take four years, or until the trainee reaches their completion of clinical training (CCT), whichever is sooner.
Clinical Lecturers spend half of their time doing specialist clinical training and half undertaking research. They are expected to extend the findings from their higher degrees into new (related) areas of research to develop applications for externally-funded intermediate level fellowships.
What specialties are available?
We appoint CLs in various specialties every year. Visit our vacancies page to find out more about what is available. If you are interested in applying for a post in any of these specialities, please contact the relevant academic lead.
Why choose Southampton?
Choosing to do a CL at Southampton gives trainees:
- the chance to join a world-class research community.
- access to a range of research facilities.
- opportunities to link with University researchers in other disciplines including Biological Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics, and Mathematics.
We support all CLs at Southampton developing their careers as clinical academics through:
- a £1000 travel bursary to attend conferences and events.
- access to a training fund covering course fees and associated costs
- an active community of fellow clinical academics.
- annual networking opportunities.
- help with with external grant and fellowship applications.
- the option to apply for project funding from the Faculty's Research Management Committee (subject to conditions).
- access to the Faculty of Medicine mentoring scheme and programme of transferable skills workshops.
We have a strong track record of developing clinical lecturers. Most have gone on to senior clinical academic or research-active NHS posts. Many have obtained significant amounts of research funding (including awards up to £1 million) and intermediate and advanced fellowships. Many of our clinical lecturers have published in high-impact journals including Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, The Lancet and BMJ.
Learn more about the experiences of some of our CLs
Our clinical lecturers
| Dr Natalie Cox | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine |
| Dr Andrew Cumpstey | NIHR Senior Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Critical Care |
| Dr Ben Gaastra | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery |
| Dr Nathan Huneke | NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry |
| Dr Faidra Laskou | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology |
| Dr Sheah Lin Lee | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Surgery |
| Dr Rebecca Moon | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Child Health |
| Dr Anna Selby | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Respiritory Medicine |
| Dr Ganesh Vigneswaran | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Interventional Radiology |
| Dr Aneurin Young | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Neonatal, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolomics |
| Dr Sara Mckelvie | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in General Practice |
| Dr Alasdair Munro | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics |