Perpetual Postdoc - Breaking the Perpetual Postdoc Cycle

Adam Smith & Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali host this Twitter Spaces discussion for Dementia Researcher. They speak with four dementia research Professors about their careers, how they navigated the path to professor, discovering what they learned along the way, what they might do differently and getting their advice for any postdocs who are looking to progress, decide what comes next or who just feel stuck in the endless cycle of short-term contracts. Our guest panellists are: Tara Spires-Jones - Professor of Neurodegeneration & Deputy Director, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences within the UK Dementia Research Institute at The University of Edinburgh. Sci-fi fan and working on the Neurobiology of synapse degeneration. Louise Serpell - Professor of Biochemistry & Director of Sussex Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. Leading a busy research group with four Postdocs and three PhD students. Researching proteins and how they fold and misfold and proving her physics teacher wrong every day! Professor Claire Surr - Director of the Centre for Dementia Research at Leeds Beckett University, cycling and researching Dementia care and services with particular interest in care homes and hospital care and workforce education and training. Tammaryn Lashley - Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Research for the Queen Square Brain Bank at University College London. UCL 18 year veteran, leading a Neuropathology lab, supervising 11 PhD Students and wrangling two children. If you would like to get involved and join us for our next social audio chat drop us a line at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/dem_researcher ________________________ Odd News by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/