Research in Your Career
Professional Pathways
There are several different ways to bring research into your career, from using evidence daily, to helping support studies, to building a clinical academic role.
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Take a look below to see how we can support you in starting your research journey.
Possibilities to Explore
Research Pillar
Many clinical roles now have research as part of the requirements for ongoing revalidation and progression (for example Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Consultant Practitioners, Medical Staff). However, anyone can get involved in research and improvement and make the research pillar a part of their role. This might include Clinical Audits, leading Quality Improvement projects or supporting research. Click the button below for more information or get in touch if you need help or would like to receive updates about research in practice opportunities.
Support Patient Access
Many of the studies that we run are developed by research teams around the country, and hosted by local clinical services. Patients or participants are invited to take part in research via their clinicians or research staff working alongside them. You can be involved by helping identify patients, explaining studies to them, and even taking consent.
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Be a Local Lead
Many clinical roles now have research as part of the requirements for ongoing revalidation and progression (for example Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Consultant Practitioners, Medical Staff). However, anyone can get involved in research and improvement and make the research pillar a part of their role. This might include Clinical Audits, leading Quality Improvement projects or supporting research. Click the button below for more information or get in touch if you need help or would like to receive updates about research in practice opportunities.
Your Own Research
We can support you in undertaking your own research whether it is big or small. Guidance is available on designing, delivering, and sharing findings from smaller projects.
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Our Research Roadmap can lead you through the approvals process. Larger projects often need grant funding, and the team can help identify the best funding stream, as well as support with your application. Contact us for more information.
Research Delivery Careers
A research delivery career is a fantastic way to get involved in health and social care research. As a research nurse, allied health professional, clinical research assistant, research governance officer, or facilitator, you can help bring new research opportunities to people using Solent services.
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This career involves working with researchers to assess the feasibility of studies, set up the study processes, and ensure we can undertake the project. You might identify suitable patients, seek their consent, collect data, or deliver new interventions.
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In any role within a research delivery team, you will work closely with clinical colleagues and patients, promoting improvement through research and sharing learning from projects that can significantly impact patient care.
Clinical Academic Careers
If doing your own research and developing your research skills more formally interests you, you could consider a clinical academic career. A Clinical Academic Nurse or Allied Health Professional (AHP) is typically a clinically active health researcher.
They work in the NHS as clinicians while in parallel researching new ways of delivering better outcomes for the patients that they treat. As they remain clinically active, their research is grounded in day-to-day clinical issues they face, and importantly they form partnerships with other academics and clinicians.