Academic Clinical Lectureships

UCL is proud to have one of the largest cohorts of National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) trainees in the UK.

UCL's cohorts of National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) trainees includes approximately 50 NIHR (and locally funded) NIHR Clinical Lecturers in posts across UCL and our UCL Partner Academic Health Science Centres and Hospitals.

Our Academic Clinical Lectureship (CL) schemes have an overall success rate of approximately 85% in securing peer-reviewed internationally competitive research funding to continue their clinical academic careers.

For more information, please see NIHR Integrated Academic Training and NIHR IAT Guide

Please see below for the UCL UCAT Guide:

2023_ucl_icat_guide.pdf

2024 CL Recruitment

Recruitment to the 2024 NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureships (CL’s) will open from April 2024.

All posts are advertised via Oriel
Posts can be advertised in different HEE recruitment windows eg: April, May/June and August
Health Education England (HEE) is responsible for the application and interview process.
For enquiries about the application process you can contact HEE directly via the Support Portal
See the table below for a list of the 2023 UCL ACFs

2024 NIHR CL Posts

Post Number	Speciality	Lead
CL Post 1	General Surgery	Dr Reza Motallebzadeh
CL Post 2	Infectious Diseases	Prof Maddy Noursadeghi
CL Post 3	Intensive Care Medicine	Prof Mervyn Singer
CL Post 4	Renal Medicine	Prof Jeremy Brown

Themed CL Posts

Post Number	Speciality	Theme	Lead
CL Post 5	Cardiology	Multiple Long Term Conditions	Prof Pier Lambiase
CL Post 6	General Adult Psychiatry	Mental Health	Prof Maddy Noursadeghi
CL Post 7	Neurosurgery	Digital	Prof Rob Brownstone
CL Post 8	Paediatrics	Clinical Therapeutics & Pharmacology & Industry	Prof Terence Stephenson

Additional CL Posts

Post Number	Speciality	Funding	Lead

2024 Dental CL Post

Post Number	Speciality	Funding	Lead
CL Post 9	Prosthodontics	NIHR Dental	Prof Stephen Porter