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School for Primary Care training and career development

The SPCR deliver a research capacity and development programme to develop and support future leaders in primary care research.  All SPCR funded Fellows and PhD students are part of the SPCR Trainees community and have access to training and development opportunities via the NIHR academy. More information about the benefits and opportunities of being an SPCR trainee.

Trainees at the University of Nottingham 2021-26

PhD trainees and their research projects

• Salma Almidani: Addressing Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minorities and migrant groups
• Sarah Harris: Identifying key factors that result in the delayed diagnosis of endometriosis to design an educational tool for primary care health professionals
• Joy Watterson (nee Agbonmwandolor): Adapting the Action Falls programme for ethnic minority stroke survivors

Post-doctoral fellowship holders and their research projects

Primary Care Clinician Career Progression Fellowship

• William Evans (GP): Can we diagnose rare Antinuclear antibody-associated autoimmune diseases earlier?

Post-doc Fellowship (two-year non-medical)

• Jade Kettlewell (health psychology): Exploring use and implementation of rehabilitation prescriptions for individuals admitted to UK major trauma centres: a mixed-methods study
• Ralph Akyea (applied epidemiologist): Cholesterol and cardiovascular disease risk assessment: what next?
• Eithne Heffernan (health psychology): Co-designing improvements to primary care services for people living with hearing loss
• Gillian Campbell (physiotherapist): Conservative management of pelvic floor disorders for women: barriers to engagement (EMPOWER)
• Rob Goodwin (physiotherapist): Using realist research approaches to understand implementation and subsequent support needs of first contact physiotherapist roles in primary care

SPCR Wellcome PhD programme for primary care clinicians

These highly competitive awards aim to increase research capacity across primary care by supporting Clinicians working in Primary Care to undertake a PhD alongside a programme of researcher development. It aims to create future research leaders who will develop innovative and evidence based practice and policy to improve population health and support the NHS. Find out more about this programme.

Current Wellcome trainee

• Sadaf Qureshi (pharmacist): The use of pharmacogenomics testing to guide prescribing in the UK primary care setting: mixed methods investigation to explore its potential in everyday clinical practice