Kirsten Guy

Kirsten is a physiotherapist by profession and has specialised in stroke rehabilitation for over 15 years. Kirsten has a passion for research, and specifically for providing colleagues and members of the public with opportunities to get involved in, and benefit from research. Kirsten initially moved into a role as Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Research Lead for Lincolnshire in October 2022 and subsequently took up the position of Lincolnshire Integrated Care System (ICS) Research Lead in November 2023. Kirsten has facilitated the development of Lincolnshire’s first Research and Innovation Research Strategy and has helped launch the Research and Innovation Hub.

Professor Ciro Rinaldi

Also, Consultant Haematologist, United Lincolnshire Hospital NHS Trust. Professor Ciro Rinaldi trained in Italy at University Federico II Naples, where he gained his MD, followed by Haematology specialist training and a PhD in Biotechnology.

During his PhD, he moved to Chicago where he worked in Giuseppina Nucifora’s Lab at University of Illinois (UIC), and he published several articles on alternative pathways in MPN and MDS.

He is Consultant Haematologist at United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust specialised in myeloid malignancies including MPN, MDS and AML and he is also Deputy Medical Director and Director of Research and Innovation.

He became Honorary Professor in Haematology at University of Lincoln in 2015 where He leads the MPN/MDS molecular biology lab focusing on Philadelphia-negative MPN and abnormal pathways in MDS.

He is former Chair for the Haematology Expert Clinical Advisory Group (ECAG) Lead for the East Midland.

Professor Jaspreet S Phull

Dr Jaspreet Phull is Consultant in Forensic & General Adult Psychiatry and Deputy Medical Director of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Lincoln.

He is currently working as a Responsible Clinician for a low secure 15 bedded male forensic unit.

Jaspreet is experienced in all aspects of General Adult and Forensic Psychiatry having worked extensively within the NHS.  His roles have included positions in high and medium secure units, rehabilitation units, and community forensic services as well as serving as a visiting psychiatrist in prisons.

Jaspreet holds the qualifications of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is a Section 12 approved doctor under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Access Assessor for Lincolnshire Low Secure Adult Services.

Jaspreet first studied medicine at Bristol University and undertook his higher and core postgraduate training in the East Midlands. Alongside postgraduate membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Jaspreet has additional qualifications in clinical psychiatry, psychotherapy and mental health law.

Jaspreet has authored a book on psychiatric diagnoses, in 2012, co-authored national standards for community forensic services in 2013 and has over 14 peer reviewed journals.  His interests are service improvement, clinically relevant research and teaching.

Jaspreet has 2 children. Outside of work he is actively involved in family life and when time allows enjoys watching and playing sports.

Dr. Majid Akram

Deputy Medical Director and Chief Clinical Informatics Officer for primary care.

Interests include innovation and digital health. Clinical interest includes cardiovascular disease, and prevention, especially in terms of lifestyle and therapeutics that can influence ‘health-span’.

Always keen to collaborate on meaningful pathway redesign and discussions around disruptive transformation that removes wasteful touch points for patients and improves health outcomes.

Completed membership exam for the Royal College of physicians (MRCP) and then progressed to completing the MRCGP.

Working as a GP principle in Lincolnshire for 14 years. Involved in medical student and GP registrar training.

Paul Holmes

I joined the team in April 2024 as Innovation Lead in collaborative partnership with Health Innovation East Midlands (HEIM).   My journey in the NHS began back in 2007 in the days of the Primary Care Trusts with a variety roles involving Governance, Data Analytics and Project Management before finding my real passion of service improvement, which I was fortunate enough to develop as Quality Improvement Academy Lead at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust prior to making the short journey south to Lincolnshire.

My role is primarily about seeing how we can help bring innovation into our systems, if we don’t try something different, we’ll always end up with the same results.  But innovation doesn’t have to be huge and transformational,

it can be as simple as seeing something that is working elsewhere and seeing how we can adopt it here.  The end product and focus is making things better for everyone, the journey to get there should flex to suit the problem at hand.  One thing you’ll always hear me ask is ‘So what problem are we trying to solve?’.

I’m a seaside boy at heart although I live just outside Lincoln these days, longing for the feel of a sea-breeze on my face.  I’ve yet to master the art of sitting still with Triathlons previously taking up a lot of my energy, happily my young family dictate a lot of my spare time these days, so the bike especially is gathering a lot of dust.  I’d describe myself as curious and incredibly sociable, I’ll always welcome a conversation!

Prof Kate Mansfield

Michelle Webb

Prof Nikki Adams

Nikki is Professor of Healthy Ageing and Director of the Healthy Ageing Research Group at the University of Lincoln, where she has worked since 2025. She is also Honorary Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation and Behavioural Medicine at Northumbria University, Newcastle.

My interests are in managing long term conditions in the clinical and community setting, through the development, design and implementation of complex interventions to improve physical function and quality of life for older adults. I am specifically interested in falls prevention, cardiac rehabilitation and the management of pain in older adults. I am also interested in community-based behavioural interventions to maintain independence and reduce frailty.

My research methodologies include clinical trials, mixed methods research, feasibility and pilot studies and evidence synthesis. I served on the NIHR-RfPB North East Committee for 4 years prior to taking up my current post at UoL.

Paul Gutherson

Paul currently leads LVET, a collective of Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise organisations all involved in supporting the social care, health and wellbeing of people in Lincolnshire. He is committed to the idea that communities and people should not only shape research and innovation but that they can be active participants in the whole research process. LVET helps encourage VCFSE organisations of all sizes to get involved in research through leading the Research Engagement Network and the development of the Research Charter.

Tracy McCranor

Gemma Squires

Dr Lucy Gavens

Lucy is a Consultant in Public Health at Lincolnshire County Council. She has over 15 years experience working across a wide range of public health areas, with a particular focus in more recent years on substance misuse and mental health and wellbeing. Lucy is also an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Lincoln. Her research is focused on addiction and mental health, including research on gambling related harms and suicide prevention in substance use treatment services.

Prof Andrew Jackson

Prof Caroline Horton

Caroline is Professor of Sleep and Cognition at Lincoln Bishop University, where she also leads the Psychology, Health and Wellbeing Research and Knowledge Exchange Unit, acts as Ethics Lead and is Director of the DrEAMSLab. Further afield, Caroline is Co-Director of the Lincoln Sleep Research Centre, Trustee and Treasurer of the British Sleep Society, and holds numerous roles within the British Psychological Society.

Caroline’s research spans experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as public health. She supports interdisciplinary psychological and health research.

Dr Alex Carlin

As a District Nurse, Dr Alexandra Carlin brings specialist expertise in community nursing, primary healthcare, wound care, complex care (including palliative care), leadership, management, and education. Her research focuses on nurse and health professional education, with a particular interest in exploring social worlds through a microsociological lens. Alex continues to write for publication in a variety of academic texts and journals, to promote evidence-based practice for professionals working in the field.

Alex began her nursing career in 2009 after graduating from the University of Nottingham. After working on the District for many years, Alex launched her academic career, initially at the University of Lincoln, and then at the University of Nottingham.

She is currently the Programme Lead for Health and Social Care at Lincoln Bishop University, where she draws on her clinical background to lead teaching, develop programmes and offer quality assurance to academic partners. As a qualitative researcher and ethnographer, Alex’s work focuses on problem‑based learning, student experience and contemporary issues in nursing and healthcare practice. She completed her PhD in 2025, exploring social interaction in nurse education.

Alongside her academic leadership, Alexandra maintains strong professional engagement as an external examiner, an associate governor (at Lincoln College) and she holds an honorary contract with a local GP practice to maintain clinical competency in Lincolnshire.

David Stacey

David is a Public Health Practitioner and has worked as a Programme Manager in the Public Health Team at Lincolnshire County Council for over 15 years. David currently leads on programmes of work relating to public mental health and research and development, supporting the local authority to become a more research active organisation. This includes overseeing the local authority’s relationship with the University of Lincoln through a Rural and Civic Agreement. Recently, David has been a part of the bid to establish the Lincolnshire Unit for Mental Health Research and is part of the team working with the university to deliver this new research unit.

Eddie Alder

Emma Adams

Hannah Finch

Hannah graduated with a degree in Human Science and began her NHS career in March 2004 as Team Administrator for the Derby-Burton Cancer Research Network at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. In this role, she supported the administration and data management for cancer research studies. Later that year, she transitioned to the hospital R&D office as Clinical Trials Manager, reviewing and approving research studies proposed for delivery within the Trust and across Derbyshire primary care.

In June 2008, Hannah joined the newly formed NIHR Comprehensive Local Research Network as Senior Research Management and Governance Manager for the Trent region. She led a research governance team and provided expert guidance on research governance across the region.

Following the 2014 NIHR network restructure, which merged Comprehensive and Topic-Specific networks and expanded the footprint to the East Midlands, Hannah shifted focus from governance to research delivery. She joined the Senior Leadership Team of the NIHR Clinical Research Network as Research Delivery Manager, where she managed a diverse portfolio including overseeing research delivery in Cancer, Haematology, Reproductive Health and Childbirth, Children’s, and Genetics. As part of a national network of Continuous Improvement leaders, she served as the regional lead, driving best practice and championing improvement methodologies across the region.  She also contributed nationally as a member of the CRN Research Delivery Steering Group and worked closely with four organisations to strengthen their research functions.

During this time, Hannah provided strategic support to ULTH’s Research & Innovation department, which led to her appointment as Head of Research & Innovation in 2021.  Over the past 5 years, Hannah has led Trust-wide efforts to improve its research and innovation capacity and capabilities, including developing a strategic direction and a range of initiatives within the Lincolnshire Community & Hospitals Group and in partnership with other providers and stakeholders.

Harriet Savage

Harriet works for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) as the East Midlands Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) Head of Partner Liaison and Planning. In this role, she leads strategic engagement with system partners to support research development and delivery across the region, with a specific focus on organisations in Lincolnshire. She also oversees the Study Support Service, which enables the effective set-up and delivery of research studies by supporting sponsors and research teams to navigate processes, assess feasibility, and deliver high-quality studies across the health and care system.
Harriet has over 15 years’ experience within NIHR research networks and has been working in health research since 2010. She joined the Clinical Research Network East Midlands in 2017 and has held a number of senior operational leadership roles, including Research Operations Manager and Research Delivery Manager, where she supported the delivery of a portfolio of research across a range of specialty areas including cancer, children’s, reproductive health, and primary care, before moving into her current position.
She holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Applied Psychology, and works closely with senior leaders, regional settings, and specialty leads to shape and deliver research across the NIHR portfolio. Harriet is particularly passionate about ensuring research reaches underserved communities and translates into meaningful benefits for patients and the public.

Jake Bontoft

I am a Nurse by background, currently working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Research Nurse for St Barnabas Hospice Trust.

I have been working in specialist palliative and end of life care for over 10 years. I am committed to developing the individual and overall experience of people using our services.

The holistic nature of palliative care and individualism of every person means that each situation is unique, and the learning never stops.

My practice as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner affords me to exercise multiple facets of my practice and brain.

I am interested in evolution of services, efficiency, and resourcefulness.

I am currently responsible for building research capacity within St Barnabas Hospice, a task which I am thoroughly enjoying.

Rather than information hoarding, I love to educate and share what I know. I believe new information and new ways of doing things invigorates our workforce.

Prof Jeanette Rotchell

Professor Jeanette Rotchell has more than 25 year’s experience in environmental toxicology and is currently College Director of Research within the College of Health and Science at the University of Lincoln. Her research interests include the levels, fate and impacts of contaminants in various environments, foodstuffs and, most recently for microplastics, in the human body.

Jess Boot-Marshall

Jessica Boot-Marshall is the Senior Development Manager at the Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health, the country’s first integrated and multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to bringing together rural and coastal health and wellbeing research to help tackle the place-based inequalities, based at the University of Lincoln. Jessica’s role is to lead the Professional Services team within the Institute and develop and deliver the financial sustainability plan to ensure the longevity of the Institute. Jessica’s background spans roles in research development and commercial partnerships within the higher education sector, and economic development roles within local government.

Debbie Jeffrey

Debbie is a registered nurse with over 38yrs experience, latterly in the delivery of clinical research and governance in Lincolnshire and the wider East Midlands. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) provide the research governance approval for any studies opening in LCHS and research governance assurance for the Lincolnshire GP practices. We work closely with our other NHS partners, academia, and the voluntary sector.