Addenbrookes
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Conway Morris group work on neutrophil biology, immune dysfunction in critical illness and the biology of pneumonia. Comprising a mixture of clinical fellows and pre and post-doctoral fellows, we undertake a range of work ourselves and in collaboration with other groups in Cambridge and beyond.
Queen’s University of Belfast Critical Care Research Group
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
Mutidisciplinary Group
The Belfast critical care research group is a highly productive, growing, multidisciplinary research group encompassing all aspects of critical illness.
We have a range of interests from basic science, translational research, clinical trials and evidence synthesis, encompassing paediatric and adult emergency medicine, critical care, and perioperative medicine. Our diverse background includes scientists, physicians, nurses and allied health professionals.
We work closely with the Intensive Care Units at Royal Victoria Hospital (regional trauma and neurosurgical centre, 32 beds) and Belfast City Hospital (elective surgery, haem-oncology centre, 10 beds), and with other clinical departments in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine in which we are based is a state-of-the-art research environment for laboratory science, and we work closely with the NI Clinical Research Facility for early phase clinical trials.
We welcome interest from potential collaborators, students, or research fellows, and are always happy to discuss opportunities to come and work with us, either in person here in Belfast or remotely wherever you are.
Birmingham
Queen Elizabeth Hospital / University of Birmingham
As the largest ICU in the UK, we offer a wide-range of research opportunities. We have close links with the University of Birmingham and 24/7 access to labs and freezers for sample collection, storage and analysis. We have a large research team and a team of dedicated research nurses to facilitate portfolio and home-grown projects. We are part of the Birmingham Acute Care Research Group that brings together collaborators from the whole of Birmingham.
Bristol Anaesthesia, Pain, & Critical Care Research Group
University of Bristol, University of Bath, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, North Bristol NHS Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Trust
The Bristol Anaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care Research group is a multi-disciplinary collaboration aiming to transform patient care by providing new evidence from basic science through to applied clinical studies. The group develops novel methods to tackle important questions relevant to patients, clinicians, scientists and the NHS and is working to inspire and train new generations of junior clinicians and scientists to undertake high quality research. We host undergraduate students, clinical and basic science PhD students, as well as Special Academic Foundation Program trainees, Academic Clinical Fellows, and Clinical Lecturers.
Royal Cornwall Hospital
Treliske Hospital
We are a team of 4 critical care research nurses that work apart from the Research and Development team at Royal Cornwall. We provide a 7 days service
Edinburgh Critical Care Research Group
The Edinburgh Critical Care Research Group (ECCRG) is an enthusiastic, multi-disciplinary team, whose bench to bedside approach to research bridges from basic science through to large-scale clinical projects.
Within critical care, our research covers a wide range of areas including sedation, blood transfusion, genomics, sepsis, inflammation and optical imaging. Our neuroscience work focusses on the management of traumatic brain injury, and our team collaborates with University basic science colleagues in this area. We are also very interested in recovery from critical illness and have a multidisciplinary group of doctors, nurses, dietitians and physiotherapists all working together for the benefit of critical care patients.
The group also supports an expanding perioperative research portfolio where we have strong links with colleagues in surgery and anaesthesia.
Members of the ECCRG has extensive expertise in epidemiology and health services research, in particular, to use large linked databases in Scotland and the UK, to study outcomes following critical care and major surgery.
Places of Work
Glasgow Royal Infirmary ICU Research
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
At Glasgow Royal Infirmary ICU we are enthusiastic about providing our patients with access to clinical research and are active participants in multi-centre trials. In addition, we have close links to the University of Glasgow Academic department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care and run our own original research program.
We welcome research fellows to work in ICU and in our research group to gain experience in collaborating and leading research often leading to the award of higher degrees. We have successfully supported ICM trainees during a Specialist Study Year (Research) and offer opportunities for trainees including Associate PI scheme and study involvement.
Manchester Academic Critical Care (MACC)
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Mutidisciplinary Group
Manchester Academic Critical Care (MACC) is a collaboration between The University of Manchester’s teaching hospitals. Our research focuses on data synthesis and hypothesis testing in the critically ill. We develop research skills in local researchers and trainees through placements on our projects. We conduct novel and innovative primary research, partner with industry, and support recruitment to NIHR portfolio studies.
Mid Yorkshire ICU Research Team
Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield
Pinderfields is a large DGH, including a regional Adult Burns Centre. We have a 20 bedded ICU, including 2 Burns ICU beds. We are involved in multiple ICU, Burns and Anaesthesia studies, and encourage participation from our trainee doctors as well as permanent staff, including outreach and physiotherapy staff. The team is led by Dr Brendan Sloan, assisted by several research nurses and clinical trials assistants. We have been a consistently high recruiting site for several of our studies.
Oxford Critical Care Research Group
University of Oxford
Mutidisciplinary Group
The Oxford Critical Care Research Group is a highly multi-disciplinary team, including clinicians, nurses, physiotherapists, biomedical engineers and statisticians.
We have a successful history of conducting research in and around the critical care environment, focussing on early patient deterioration and long-term clinical outcomes of patients who have been admitted to an intensive care unit. Further details of our research themes can be found here: Research themes — Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (ox.ac.uk).
The group has strong and ongoing collaborations with the Department of Engineering at the University of Oxford, the Centre for Statistics in Medicine at the University of Oxford, ICNARC and the universities of Southampton and Portsmouth. These collaborations bring additional expertise in the fields of artificial intelligence, advanced statistical modelling and clinical trial management.
The group’s research activities are also supported by several NHS Trusts and their clinical teams, for example the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust ICU, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust.
We host postgraduate projects and provide research secondment opportunities for doctors and allied health professionals. We are heavily involved in the NIHR academic foundation and academic clinical fellowship programmes, providing academic training to junior clinicians.
Derriford Hospital
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Hospital ICU Research Group and South West Critical Care Research Community of Practice (Claire West is CRN coordinator)
Queen Mary University of London
Critical Care and Peri-operative Medicine Group
Mutidisciplinary Group
Within our team we have a wide range of research expertise allowing us to tackle research questions through a variety of research methods from laboratory experiments to large clinical trials, epidemiological studies and qualitative research. Our research is carried out at our hospitals: the Royal London, St Bartholomew's, Newham, Whipps Cross and in the laboratory facilities at the William Harvey Research Institute.
Royal Free London
The Royal Free Hospital is a large London teaching hospital and one of UCL Medical School’s main teaching and research sites. It comprises an ICU encompassing 46 Critical Care beds and an 8 bedded Post Anaesthesia Care Unit. Within this, we have a dedicated Liver Critical Care Unit, run by a highly specialised multi-disciplinary team. The critical care research group has close links with the Royal Free Perioperative Research Group (RoFPoR) in both the participation of national research projects but also in the development and delivery of original research. We welcome trainees to get involved in this work from the undergraduate level through to post CCT fellows and offer both clinical research fellowships and participation in the NIHR Associate PI Scheme. We collaborate closely with other specialties with the aim of delivering high-quality, patient-centred, and clinically relevant research.
Surrey Perioperative Anaesthesia Critical Care Collaborative Research group (SPACeR)
Places of Work
University of Warwick
Emergency, Prehospital, Perioperative and Critical Care (EPPiC) Research Group
The EPPiC research group based at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit is a multidisciplinary research comprising methodologists, doctors, nurses, and paramedics. We specialise in large pragmatic clinical trials, health services research, and evidence synthesis.
Please do contact us if you are interested in collaborative research or want to work with us on the next stage of your academic journey.
Watford General Hospital
