Clinical Lecturer in Medical Oncology

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Lecturer in Medical Oncology in the School of Cancer Sciences. This is a fixed term (up to 6 years or up until six months after obtaining CCT, whichever is soonest) and will be available from Wednesday 5th August 2026. The funding for this academic training post is through NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and is part of their SCREDS Clinical Lecturer scheme.

You will hold MRCP or equivalent and will have completed general professional training. It is expected that you will already hold a higher research degree (MD/PhD), but in exceptional circumstances a talented candidate may be appointed without this qualification, although progression would be dependent upon them successfully completing this qualification in the first few years of the post. If the successful candidate does not possess a higher degree, they will be supported by Professor Richard Wilson and other senior clinical academics in medical oncology as well as senior academics in the School of Cancer Sciences and Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Scotland Centre in developing an appropriate project, pursuing any necessary funding and executing research suitable for submission of a post‑graduate degree.

You will be appointed at the appropriate level of Specialty Trainee and will enter the West of Scotland Higher Training Programme in Medical Oncology. You must already have a UK national training number in Medical Oncology at the time of taking up the post.

The post will be based within the School of Cancer Sciences in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences (MVLS) of the University of Glasgow. Whilst clinical training will be a major focus of the Lectureship in order to ensure the appointee can successfully complete their certificate of completion of training (CCT), this post will also provide an exceptional opportunity for combined academic training.

Clinical training will cover all aspects of the Medical Oncology Curriculum and will provide opportunities to develop subspeciality expertise in tumour sites of particular interest to the appointee. Clinical training will take place predominantly at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre. However, if required for training, there are opportunities to pursue a period of clinical training in other Centres.

Research training will be undertaken in the world class academic environment of the University of Glasgow with excellent opportunities in all aspects of oncology research. For this Lectureship, the School is particularly keen to develop further capacity in its areas of internationally recognised research excellence, for example developmental therapeutics and early/late phase clinical trials, early detection, pre‑clinical cancer models, therapy resistance, energetic stress, tumour microenvironment and metastasis and data analysis.

We have tumour specific research themes within the CRUK Scotland Centre, based on cancer types that profoundly affect the Scottish population (colorectal, hepatobiliary, pancreas and lung cancer/mesothelioma) or in which we have significant, growing expertise (brain and gynaecological cancer). However, applicants who have other research interests that are aligned with College and School strategy are encouraged to apply. Excellent infrastructure for pre‑clinical, translational, clinical and data research is available, supported by our Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre and Glasgow Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre funding streams.

There are also additional expertise and resources available in the other Schools within our College, in the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute and with our colleagues in the University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics and Cancer (part of our CRUK Scotland Centre).

The supervisory team can also work with the appointee to try to obtain competitive funding for additional protected research time e.g. through the NES/CSO post‑doctoral fellowship scheme.

The academic aim of the lectureship is to support research development, including an MD or PhD where appropriate, aimed at the submission of intermediate fellowship applications by the end of the lectureship and eventual…