Dr Anna Volkmer - Every penny counts, small grant applications

Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Small research grants play an important role in supporting early-stage research (and early stage researchers), encouraging innovation, and advancing scientific knowledge. They provide flexibility and agility to pursue ideas that may be considered too risky or too exploratory for larger grants, and we all know what can grow from an acorn... In this blog Dr Anna Volkmer (now a quite senior researcher) is waiting for news from a small grant application, demonstrating that despite the time and effort, these small grants play an important role, a topic Anna discusses in this blog. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-every-penny-counts-small-grant-applications/ -- Dr Anna Volkmer is a Speech and Language Therapist and researcher in Language and Cognition, Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. Anna is researching Speech and language therapy interventions in language led dementia and was once voted scariest speech and language therapist (even her children agree). -- If you would like to write your own blog drop us a line, we're always on the look out for new contributors to write about their research, careers + more [email protected] -- This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support.