Career stories

Explore interviews with clinical academics who share their career paths and experiences. These stories offer insight into academic life and support those considering or developing a clinical academic career.

Profession

Medicine
Dentistry
Pharmacy
Veterinary Medicine
Nursing, Midwifery & AHPs

Theme

Overcoming adversity
Women in academia
Diversity
Alternative routes
Navigating clinical workload
Day in the life
Balancing family commitments

Career stage

Independent Researcher/Senior Leadership
Undergraduate
Pre-doctoral
Doctoral
Early Post-Doctoral
Later Post-Doctoral

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“I love that no two days are ever the same. I get to combine clinical work, research, teaching and leadership while helping others grow in their careers.”

Professor Chris Vernazza

Head of the Dental School and Professor of Oral Health Services at Newcastle University.

“As you become more engaged, you start to develop your own networks and put your own project teams together, and that becomes a catalyst for research.”

Dr James Field

Senior Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry and Honorary Consultant in Prosthodontics and a National Teaching Fellow.

“I probably haven’t taken the most typical route to become a clinical academic.”

Dr Jamie Read

Professor of Medical Education and Dean of the Lincoln Medical School at the University of Lincoln.

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