Supervision & Mentorship

Building the next cohort of clinical academics in kidney medicine.

Supervising postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students and clinical academic trainees — with mentees graduating with Distinction and First Class Honours, presenting at international congresses, publishing as first authors and winning an MRC fellowship.

Currently Supervising

Five mentees across every stage of the clinical academic pathway.

1
Post-doctoral Researcher
2
Doctoral Students
1
Academic Clinical Fellow
1
Specialised Foundation Programme Doctor
Completed Supervision

Mentees who graduated with top honours and presented internationally.

Postdoctoral
3

International presentations & a first-author paper

Post-doctoral researcher on loin pain in IgA nephropathy (Mayer IgA Nephropathy Group, University of Leicester). Presented at ASN Kidney Week, the World Congress of Nephrology and the ERA Congress, with two further national presentations and a first-author publication in Kidney International Reports.

Postgraduate
MSc

Graduated with Distinction

Masters student supervised through to graduation with a Distinction.

Undergraduate
BSc

Graduated with First Class Honours

BSc student supervised through to graduation with First Class Honours.

Mentee Outputs

Fellowships, papers and congress presentations from the group.

Post-doctoral researcher

Loin pain in IgA nephropathy

2026
Characterization of patient-reported loin pain in IgANFirst-author publication · Kidney International Reports 2026;11(8):106620
2025
Loin pain in adults with IgA nephropathy: insights from qualitative interviews with patients, families and healthcare professionalsERA Congress · Vienna, Austria  ·  International
2025
Loin pain in rare kidney disease: 3,867 questionnaire responses with linked data from RaDaRWorld Congress of Nephrology · New Delhi, India  ·  International
2025
Recommendations for future research in IgA nephropathy & emotional and mental health support needs in adult IgANUK Kidney Week · Bournemouth, UK  ·  Two national presentations
2024
Exploring the impact of loin pain in IgA nephropathy: a UK-wide mixed-methods studyASN Kidney Week · San Diego, USA  ·  International

Academic Foundation Programme doctor

IgA nephropathy and IgA vasculitis across the paediatric–adult divide

2026
MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship · £280,000Competitive fellowship investigating differences between paediatric IgA nephropathy and IgA vasculitis
2026
Characterization of patient-reported loin pain in IgANCo-author · Kidney International Reports 2026;11(8):106620
2025
IgA nephropathy: a paradigm shift in treatment strategiesFirst-author review · Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension 2025;34(5):381–388
2025
Digital spatial profiling to study IgA nephropathy and IgA vasculitis across paediatric and adult patientsEuropean Society for Paediatric Nephrology Congress · Athens, Greece  ·  International
2025
Transcriptional profiling of podocytes in minimal change disease using digital spatial profilingKidney Research UK Driving Discoveries · Bristol, UK  ·  National
2024
IgA nephropathy: emerging mechanisms of diseaseFirst-author review · Indian Journal of Nephrology 2024;34(4):297–309

Specialised Foundation Programme doctor

Tubular injury in minimal change disease

2026
Exploring the effect of proteinuria on proximal tubular epithelial cells in minimal change disease using digital spatial profilingEuropean Renal Association Congress · Glasgow, UK  ·  International
2025
IgA nephropathy: a paradigm shift in treatment strategiesCo-author · Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension 2025;34(5):381–388
8
Mentee presentations as supervising author
5
At international congresses
3
First-author mentee publications
1
MRC fellowship awarded to a mentee
Approach

What I can offer.

My supervision style emphasises early ownership, methodological rigour, and visible scholarship — every mentee should leave with a clear technical specialism and at least one piece of internationally presentable work.

Mentees gain access to a broad programme of research spanning spatial transcriptomics, clinical trials, patient-reported outcomes and clinical AI. Mentees have presented at ASN Kidney Week, the World Congress of Nephrology, the ERA Congress and the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology Congress.

Open to enquiries from prospective PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, academic clinical fellows, foundation doctors and intercalating BSc/MSc students with interests in glomerular disease, spatial omics, or clinical AI.

Prospective Mentees

Interested in joining the group?

Particularly keen to hear from candidates with interests in IgA nephropathy, glomerular biology, spatial transcriptomics, and AI in nephrology.