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Dementia Researcher Blogs — 724 episodes
Beccy Owen - Giving Your First Seminar: What I Learned
Harriet Greene - The PhD Comfort Zone
Dr Emma Law - GCP Training: Do We Really Need Regular Refreshers?
Professor Frank Gunn-Moore - An Academic career, then and now
Dr Becky Carlyle - Building Labs Where It's Safe to Fail
Emma & Sue Williams - A what? A Public Advisor Researcher? You may well ask…
Emily Spencer - Overcoming Academic Conference Presentation Anxiety
Adam Smith - Good Research Still Needs an Audience
Dr Yvonne Couch - Pedagogy For Gen Z
Dr Lindsey Sinclair - What Sport Can Teach Science
Rahul Sidhu - Weightlifting and Creatine on Brain Health
Dr Ajantha Abey - Research Habits I Wish I’d Started Earlier in My PhD
Dr Clíona Farrell - An Alzheimer’s Cabaret
Dr Connor Richardson - Small Vessel Disease: A Quiet Driver of Dementia
Professor Louise Serpell - Football, CTE and the Science Protecting Future Players
Beccy Owen - When Experiments Fail: Staying Positive in Research
Harriet Greene - How I Found My Way into Dementia Research: Give to Gain
Professor Frank Gunn-Moore: Do Cats, Dogs and Dolphins Get Dementia Too?
Dr Sam Moxon - Why Some Ideas Never Get a Chance
Dr Becky Carlyle - How I Started My Own Lecture Course
Brandon Newman - Why data matters in human-centred dementia care
Rahul Sidhu - Sleep and Dementia: Should We Worry?
Dr Yvonne Couch - Academia and the Sense of Self
Professor Louise Serpell - What's in a name? Amyloid, Amyloid-beta, Beta Amyloid, Amy-Lloyd
Bernie McInally - Not a good advert for Dementia
Emily Spencer - The Hidden Work of Finishing a PhD
Dr Connor Richardson - Learning to Belong Somewhere New
Dr Maria Drummond - What My First Major NIHR Award Taught Me
The Report, Out Loud: Listening to Early Career Researchers
Dr Tatiana A. Giovannucci - If I Fall Behind, I'll Fall Into Torpor
Beccy Owen - The Trials and Tribulations of Electrophysiology
Dr Sam Moxon - Unexpected Things Dementia Teaches us About Time
Rahul Sidhu - Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
Dr Clíona Farrell - It’s getting (too) hot in here; the climate crisis and brain health
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Contradictions & Challenges of the Junior PI
Dr Toby Williamson - Finding values in research and dementia
Dr Becky Carlyle - Building accessible and inclusive research environments
Emily Spencer - Life After the PhD: My Fellowship Application
Professor Louise Serpell - Alzheimer's Disease Takes a Lifetime
Dr Connor Richardson - Leaving Your University After 10 Years
Adam Smith - Remembering Terry Pratchett
Kirsty Hynes - No Care Homes Left Out in Dementia Research
Dr Ajantha Abey - PhD Application Advice: Assessing & Approaching a New Lab
Beccy Owen - The Long Way Round to a PhD
Dr Sam Moxon - Knowing When to Apply for Your First Research Fellowship
Dr Andrew Kiselica - Why "Normal" Cognition Is Hindering Preclinical Alzheimer’s Trials
Rahul Sidhu - Momentum in Dementia Research: What I Saw at ARUK
Jacqui Kerr - How clinical trials Site Initiation Visits work and why they matter
Dr Clíona Farrell - Optimise, troubleshoot, repeat - Beginning a new project
Dr Becky Carlyle - The Motherhood Penalty and Career Progression
Emily Spencer - Motherhood, PhDs, and the Funding Gap
Professor Louise Serpell - From Academia and Beyond
Dr Emma Law - Managing patient expectations (without overpromising)
Bernie McInally - If Only I Were an ECR Lessons from a Bangkok Park
Dr Yvonne Couch - chatGPT in Academia
Dr Sam Moxon - Real Food for Thought in the Fight Against Dementia
Rahul Sidhu - Imposter Syndrome
Dr Ajantha Abey - How I Came To Enjoy Public Speaking As An Introvert
Dr Peter Connelly - Two Worlds of Clinical Trials
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Supervision vs Mentorship
Dr Clíona Farrell - Returning to work after a travel-filled career break
Emily Spencer - Learning to Let Good Be Enough
Dr Gemma Lace - An Introverts Survival Guide to Conferences
Professor Louise Serpell - A career in Alzheimer’s Research
Dr Becky Carlyle - Academic overwhelm, you’re not the only one
Dr Yvonne Couch - Storytelling in Academia
Dr Emma Law - How We Ensure Safety in Dementia Drug Trials
Rahul Sidhu - My journey to a PhD in neuroscience: the highs & lows
Dr Sam Moxon - Never Truly Known, The Reality of Lewy Body Dementia
Adam Smith - Living alongside Hallucinations
Ajantha Abey - From Alzheimer’s to Lewy Body Disease - Expanding our Research Horizons
Dr Peter Connelly - Recognising Dementia with Lewy Bodies in Clinical Practice
Rebecca Williams - Why you should Start Writing Blogs
Dr Lindsey Sinclair - What Changing Institution Taught Me
Dr Sam Moxon - Why the Business Side of Dementia Research Matters
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Protecting your Intellectual Property
Adam Smith - What I thought I would be doing at 18
Emily Spencer - Battling Disconnection
Dr Tom Russ - Which medical specialty should treat and research dementia?
Dr Sam Moxon - Working on the Move
Dr Gemma Lace - Pursuing Your Passion: Finding Purpose in Chaos
Rebecca Williams - The Rocky Road to PhD Submission
Dr Becky Carlyle - A Scientific Christmas Message of Hope
Dr Emma Law -The Cognitive Dementia Rating (CDR) Scale: The future is coming!
Dr Peter Connelly - Cognitive Testing
Adam Smith - Finding Your First Research Assistant Role
Dr Yvonne Couch - Competition in Science
Dr Jodi Watt - This Is Not a Goodbye Post (Except It Is, Sort Of)
Dr Rosie Ashworth - Finding My Path
Rebecca Williams - Gamifying Dementia Research
Marian Montanha - Including Research in Every Dementia Diagnosis
Dr Tom Russ - How I Got into Clinical Research: My Career Journey
Dr Lindsey Sinclair - Is kindness key in academic life?
Emily Spencer - Time, Work, and a Two-Year-Old
Aygun Badalova - Life Inside a Dementia Clinical Trial
Dr Donald Lyall - What Adrian Newey Can Teach Dementia Researchers
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Making the most of my sabbatical
Dr Yvonne Couch - Running a Conference
Bernie McInally - Research and the Lone Worker
Denise Grassick-Munro - How carers can help research
Dr Becky Carlyle - From Draft to Dialogue: Fellowship Writing & Interview Tips
Rebecca Williams - Uncertainty: Academia’s Drive & Downfall
Dr Jodi Watt - Navigating Digital Fatigue and Techno-Resistance
Professor Naaheed Mukadam - Understanding Inequalities in Dementia
Adam Smith - The Perfect Study Playlist
Dr Clíona Farrell - A World Alzheimer’s Day reflection
Emily Spencer - Rethinking Balance in Research
Dr Emma Law - Recruiting Participants for Clinical Trials
Dr Clíona Farrell - Genetically determined Alzheimer’s; recap from ADAD-DSAD
Dr Peter Connelly - Balancing Clinical Research with a Clinical Career
Dr Becky Carlyle - Managing the Endless Demands of an Academic Career
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Delirium and dementia: A neglected area of research?
Dr Yvonne Couch - Organizing a Conference
Rebecca Williams - Career Decisions in Academia
Jacqui Kerr - The role of a Research Nurse in Dementia trials
Dr Lindsey Sinclair - What does it mean to be Perfect?
Lesley Cousland - A Career from Nursing to Research
Dr Jodi Watt - The Myth of the Neutral Scientist
Emily Spencer - Letting Go of Mum Guilt
Julie Scott - How I Got into Clinical Research: My Career Journey
Dr Peter Connelly - Patients, Practice and the Research Mindset
Victoria Gabb - Patient and Public Involvement & Engagement in the MCI Core Outcomes Study
Marian Montanha - How We Use Biomarkers in Dementia Trials
Dr Lindsey Sinclair - Why does inclusion matter at scientific conferences?
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - The Impact of Dementia on Women
Dr Clíona Farrell - Climate Change and the Brain
Rebecca Williams - Go with the Flo: Periods at Work
Dr Becky Carlyle - Presenting Your Data Like a Pro
Adam Smith - AAIC 2025, Big, Busy and Worth It
Professor Brian Lawlor - Why doctors should rethink dementia as brain health
Lesley Cousland - Why Care Home Communities Deserve a Place in Research
Dr Yvonne Couch - Coaching and Self-Reflection
Dr Jodi Watt - Who Gets Left Out of Dementia Prevention?
Emily Spencer - The Exhausting Reality of Data Collection
Adam Smith - Closing the Gap Between Research and Implementation
Dr Lindsey Sinclair - Courage in Academic Life
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Does the research funding process need reforming?
Dr Emma Law - Why Some people Say No to Research And How We Can Respond
Dr Clíona Farrell - How to be okay facing the unknown
Dr Peter Connelly - When Clinical Trials Fail
Rebecca Williams - Self-Worth versus Reviewer Two
Bernie McInally - Dementia Research in Rural Areas
Emily Spencer - Staying Ahead of the PhD Panic Curve
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Accelerated brain ageing and dementia
Dr Jodi Watt - Why Saying ‘Demented’ Isn’t Just Wrong, It’s Harmful
Dr Yvonne Couch - What Is DORA in Research and Why It Matters More Than You Think
Dr Becky Carlyle - It Could Happen Here: Defending Research from Politics
Ajantha Abey - Reflections on Thesis Writing
Dr Emma Law - What makes a good clinical research team?
Dr Clíona Farrell - First time through the publication process
Dr Peter Connelly - The Role of Memory Clinics in Clinical Research
Adam Smith - Building Your Personal Brand
Rebecca Williams - AI and BlueSky: Embracing the Everyday Tech of Academia
Emily Spencer - Retreat, Regroup, Rewrite
Adam Smith - How to Network and Advice for Making the First Move
Jacqui Kerr - A Day in the Life of a Clinical Trial Coordinator
Jennifer Bray & Teresa Atkinson - Reflecting on challenging situations when conducting research
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - The use of Generative AI in academia & higher education: friend or foe?
Dr Jodi Watt - How to Write a Powerful Conference Abstract
Dr Yvonne Couch - Writing Your First Fellowship
Bernie McInally - LGBTQ+ and higher dementia risk
Ajantha Abey - What Happens In a Grant Review Panel
Dr Becky Carlyle - Choose your Mentors
Yasmin Bonsu - Embracing Unplanned Opportunities
Dr Clíona Farrell - How PPIE involvement can Improve a Conference
Marian Montanha - What I Wish I Knew Before Working in Clinical Trials
Dr Sam Moxon - Will Dementia Research Funding Weather the Financial Storm?
Rebecca Williams - Stand-Up Scientists: Lessons from Comedy
Emily Spencer - Balancing fieldwork and family
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - How to use controls in your scientific studies
Rahul Sidhu - My PhD: Neurovascular effects of heart disease in Alzheimer's
Dr Jodi Watt - So you need some data – now what?
Dr Becky Carlyle - How on earth do I hire my team?!
Dr Emma Law - My First Clinical Trial: Lessons Learned
Dr Sam Moxon - How to turn your thesis into publications
Dr Clíona Farrell - My first time as a peer reviewer
Rebecca Williams - Draft Zero to Hero
Emily Spencer - Writing, Parenting, & Everything Else: Making things Work
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Addressing inequalities in access to dementia treatment
Dr Clíona Farrell - Experience from a collaborative research trip
Yasmin Bonsu - Final Semester: Uncertainty, Applications & Balance
Dr Jodi Watt - Heading Into a Year of Job Uncertainty
Dr Becky Carlyle - To teach, or not to teach?
Victoria Gabb - MCI Core Outcomes Study: Interviewing the experts
Rebecca Williams - The Binary of Science & Femininity
Emily Spencer - Productivity, Focus, and Parenthood
Dr Yvonne Couch - Your CV Needs You: Part Two
Dr Jodi Watt - Textile Arts and Dementia
Dr Sarah Griffiths - The Emotional Labour of Study Recruitment
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Facing Redundancy in Academia
Dr Clíona Farrell - A vascular element of Alzheimer’s: Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Yasmin Bonsu - Essential Resources for Internship Success
Opening Notes: Dr Becky Carlyle's Journey
Rebecca Williams - A PhD’s Christmas Carol
Amelia Robson - Working on the road: Benefits of traveling to meet participants
Dr Sam Moxon - Dementia Winter Care
Emily Spencer - Battling Perfectionism and Building Resilience
Lorna Smith - Co-Analysis in Dementia Research: Insights from D-PACT
Rebecca Williams - Be the Door, Bringing Academia to Life
Dr Yvonne Couch - Coping with An Absent Supervisor
Dr Jodi Watt - Financial Exploitation & Scam Susceptibility in Dementia
Adam Smith - Bringing Project Management into your PhD
Dr Clíona Farrell - Should You Stay? Pros and Cons of Postdoc’ing in Your PhD Lab
Victoria Gabb - Learning from experience to develop MCI Core Outcomes
Dr Connor Richardson - Dear Diary, Why I Keep a Research Journal
Dr Yvonne Couch - Imposter Syndrome as a PI
Emily Spencer - Unexpected Snags and Small Wins as a PhD Mum
Rebecca Williams - The Dark World of Computational Modelling
Bernie McInally - LGBTQ+ in Care Home Research
Yasmin Bonsu - The Comparison Trap: Finding Balance in Your Final Year
Dr Jodi Watt - Dementia-Friendly Spaces
Amelia Robson - Why I have a complicated relationship with TV adverts
Ella Moonan-Howard - Alzheimer’s Society newest support package: Launchpad
Dr Sam Moxon - How do you create a university spin out?
Ella Moonan-Howard and Pepsi Reilly - 4 reasons academics make good Innovators
Ella Moonan-Howard - Venture Science: What is it?
Dr Clíona Farrell - Journey to a PhD: A week in the life of a PhD student
Dr Clíona Farrell - Journey to a PhD: How to write a standout CV and Cover Letter
Dr Clíona Farrell - Journey to a PhD: How to get there
Emily Spencer - Best of Both Worlds
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Mimicking Dementia: What is Functional Cognitive Disorder?
Victoria Gabb - Developing ‘core outcomes’ for mild cognitive impairment research
Dr Sam Moxon - Flying Solo to an International Conference? A Survival Guide
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Open Secret: A Piece on Academic Bullying
Yasmin Bonsu - Returning to University Post-Placement Year: Nervous or Excited?
Adam Smith - The Evolving Landscape of PhD Funding
Dr Connor Richardson - In Defence of Academia
Dr Hannah Hussain - Reflections on My PhD Viva and Next Steps
Martin Robertson - My Experience as a Co-Researcher
Adam Smith - Making Friends When You're the Newcomer
Rebecca Williams - The Joys of Academia (Seriously)
Dr Jodi Watt - Inequity in dementia drug development
Dr Clíona Farrell - Communicating your science effectively: know your audience
Dr Lis Grey - Think BIG, Moving from the Individual to the Population
Emily Spencer - Pain, Perception, and Childbirth: Can a Woman be Believed?
Dr Martyna Matuszyk - Alzheimer’s Society invests £9m in Doctoral Training Centres
Dr Ayokunmi Ojebode - Poetic Tales from Dementia Wards
Rebecca Williams - Selfish Reasons for Open Science
Amelia Robson - What is polysomnography?
Dr Sam Moxon - The Mind’s Hidden Fortress, Cognitive Reserve and Dementia
Adam Smith - Research Like an Olympian
Dr Yvonne Couch - Resilience
Yasmin Bonsu - A reflection of my year in an Oxford Lab
Hannah Hussain - Challenges of Dementia Care for Ethnic Minorities in the UK
Dr Connor Richardson - Academic Promotions: A Tale of Two Tries (Part 2)
Dr Jodi Watt - Navigating challenging conversations in academia
Dr Clíona Farrell - News from the Trisomy 21 Research Society Conference
Dr Sarah Griffiths - Ethical review process guided by people with dementia
Dr Lis Grey - Academic precarity: Moving the discussion forward
Emily Spencer - Identity revisited: Becoming a parent
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Cost of Research
Dr Helena Gellersen - Ultimate guide to making the most of the AAIC
Rebecca Williams - Perfectionism: The Why Matters
Amelia Robson - Is age just a number? Working with patients from a different generation
Dr Clarissa Giebel - What actually happens at funding committees?
Athena Bratopoulou and Dr Zsófia László - The Quest to Understand MND / ALS
Dr Sam Moxon - Diet and Motor Neuron Disease, Is There Anything Here?
Dr Hannah Smith - The grant review process; perspective of an ECR
Dr Connor Richardson - Academic Promotions: A Tale of Two Tries (Part 1)
Ajantha Abey - The Transformative Potential of AI on Basic Science
Dr Yvonne Couch - Waste in Academic Research
Yasmin Bonsu - Benefits of Completing a Placement Year
Dr Jodi Watt - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Journal Clubs: How can I set one up?
Dr Emma Law - So, you think you could be a rater…Maybe not!
Bernie McInally - Fate, Research and Retirement
Dr Clíona Farrell - Tackling the PhD thesis through planning
Emily Spencer - Life after Maternity leave: planning a return to work
Dr Yvonne Couch - Supervising PhD Students
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - What type of role models do we need in academia?
Dr Sam Moxon - Enhancing Dementia Drug Discovery with AI
Dr Jodi Watt - Should I Consider My Environmental Impact in Academia?
Anika Wuestefeld - Building a Successful Grant Application
Sara Zsadanyi - A Look Inside AAIC Neuroscience Next
Emily Spencer - The illusion of choice when starting a family
Dr Connor Richardson - Reserve, Resilience, and Protective Factors PIA Year in Review Recap
Dr Marianne Coleman - Connecting Globally: Insights from the ADI Conference
Ajantha Abey - The Use of AI for Dementia Diagnosis
Dr Dylan Williams - The Genetic Culprit Behind Alzheimer's
Yasmin Bonsu - Life of an Undergraduate in Research
Rebecca Williams - Genetic Mystery Solved: The Importance of Collaboration
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Who does the ‘housework’ in academia?
Dr Beth Eyre - It’s not the end, it’s a new beginning
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Implementing Patient & Public Involvement as a lab scientist
Adam Smith - Listening: Key to Effective PI Leadership
Dr Yvonne Couch - What It’s Really Like Being a PI
Emily Spencer - Maternity Leave Priorities
Dr Jodi Watt - Art-based communication for dementia & brain health
Hannah Hussain - Pulling together your PhD Thesis
ISTAART Research Retrospectives - Professor Bruce Miller
Ajantha Abey - The Pros and Cons of using iPSCs in Dementia Research
Dr Beth Eyre - Eye as a Biomarker for AD PIA Year in Review Recap
Emily Spencer - PhD Finances & Maternity: A Reality
ISTAART Research Retrospectives - Professor Alison Goate
Dr Sam Moxon - How ‘Publish or Perish’ Harms Research Commercialisation
Dr Jodi Watt - Making your presentations more accessible
Rebecca Williams - Research Impact: Beginning at the End
Dr Anna Volkmer - Appraising and planning for the next year
Dr Yvonne Couch - Let's Talk About Sex
Ajantha Abey - How to use basic AI as a daily research tool
Dr Gaia Brezzo - The price of deception, academia’s dark side
Sára Erzsebet Zsadányi - My experience as an ISTAART Ambassador
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - British Neuropathological Society Meeting Highlights
Marija Taneska - Nonpharmacological interventions PIA Year in Review Recap
Emily Spencer - ‘Winding down’ Preparing for maternity leave
Dr Dorothy Tse - Intellect on the clock: Value Led Time Management
Hannah Hussain - Coping with distress: the unyielding strength of caregivers
Dr Sam Moxon - Nutrition Metabolism & Dementia PIA Year in Review
Rebecca Williams - A Whimsical Research Culture
Adam Smith - Dementia Researcher, Bringing Communities Together
Dr Beth Eyre - Subjective Cognitive Decline PIA Year in Review Recap
Dr Jodi Watt - Reflections on a challenging PhD
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Building non-academic collaborations
Dr Yvonne Couch - Aging in Pre-Clinical Research
Kate Turley - Which hat to wear? Navigating industry-academic partnerships
Dr Anna Volkmer - Moving forward from disappointment
Dr Sam Moxon - 2023: A Landmark Year for Public Understanding of Dementia?
Ajantha Abey - Mastering the PhD Journey: Key Application Insights
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Unlocking the lecturing toolkit; preparing your first lecture.
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - When to say “no” to new opportunities
Dr Aitana Sogorb-Esteve - Biofluid-based biomarkers PIA Year in Review Recap
Emily Spencer - Who am I? Navigating identity as a parent
Hannah Hussain - The Economics of Dementia
Rebecca Williams - MEGry Christmas to All!
Dr Connor Richardson - 2023 Unfiltered: An honest diary of a researcher
Dr Jodi Watt - Navigating the holidays after a relative is diagnosed with dementia
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Christmas time, Time for reflection and getting excited about 2024
Beth Eyre - Reflections on my (kind of) first year as a post-doc
Dr Yvonne Couch - Frazzled Brains, Academic Burnout
Rebecca Williams - Unfrazzled Brains, 10-4 to stop Burnout
Dr Anna Volkmer - The (core) academic skill of receiving feedback
Dr Sam Moxon - Why the Link Between Obesity and Dementia is Good News
Emily Spencer - The Path Less Travelled
Dr Clarissa Giebel - The importance of good mentorship
Dr Jodi Watt - Tokenism and the challenges of diverse recruitment
Hannah Hussain - What is statistical mapping?
Dr Anna Volkmer - Building blocks and PhD supervision skills
Rebecca Williams - The Horror of P-Values
Dr Sam Moxon - Feeling Overwhelmed? Get away from your desk!
Beth Eyre - How to make your PhD application stand out
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Raising awareness of dementia with cartoons
Adam Smith - Critical Roles That Fuel Clinical Trials
Dr Connor Richardson - How is working from home affecting research culture in universities?
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Recent advances in Alzheimer’s treatments: Game-changers or false hope?
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Sorting FACS from fiction
Dr Yvonne Couch - Presenting your Research to a Lay Audience
Dr Jodi Watt - Advocating for Yourself in Academia
Dr Beth Eyre - How to find a PhD… an insider’s guide!
Ajantha Abey - Using Time Tracking for Time Management
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Let’s Talk About Impact
Dr Anna Volkmer - Study Recruitment and the Sample Size Jinx
Rebecca Williams - Starting a PhD: How to Know Nothing
Dr Yvonne Couch - When to Find Funding as a Post-Doc
Dr Jodi Watt - The Naked Truth About My Academic Confidence
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Role of Luck in Academic Success
Ajantha Abey - World Alzheimer’s Day 2023: A new era of optimism
Dr Sam Moxon - Be Your Own Benchmark: Measuring Your Career Journey
Dr Beth Eyre - Demystifying the PhD – what actually is a PhD and what should I expect
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Beyond the manuscript: disentangling academic authorship
Dr Connor Richardson - Population Studies, Examples of how they are helping
Dr Vitor Zimmerer - Sharing Time and Brain Space
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Barriers to Innovation and what this means for dementia research
Ajantha Abey - How Dogs Are Helping Us Understand And Solve Dementia
Introducing Dementia Researcher: The Blogs Podcast
Rebecca Williams - Self-Report: It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
Dr Sam Moxon - How to Prepare a Keynote Talk
Dr Yvonne Couch - Organ-On-Chip and Organoid Technologies
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Learning about dementia care in India
Dr Beth Eyre - Cracking the Viva: Preparing for PhD Success
Dr Jodi Watt - I didn’t know who I was after my PhD (and maybe I still don’t..)
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Navigating Collaborative Science
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Improving clinician-academic partnerships to advance dementia research
Ajantha Abey - Why You Should Teach Alongside Your Research (Especially As A PhD Student)
Dr Connor Richardson - Population Studies, What we have learned and why we need them
Dr Sam Moxon - How to Build your Academic Network
Rebecca Williams - Science Communication, Reaching Out of the Bubble
Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - Getting yourself a senior academic promotion
Dr Clarissa Giebel - More than a paper: co-designing a board game
Dr Yvonne Couch - Isolation in Academia
Hannah Hussain - Conference Countdown: Mastering the Art of Preparation
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Pivoting your research area
Beth Eyre - Five things I wish I had known about writing up my PhD thesis
Dr Sam Moxon - Why Dementia Patients Deteriorate in Hospital
Adam Smith - Sustainable Travel to International Conferences
Dr Jodi Watt - My experience as an LGBTQIA+ postgraduate & PhD student
Dr Mark Crook-Rumsey - Digital Biomarkers: A New Era in MND Research and Care
Ajantha Abey - A Beginner’s Guide to Preparing for a Big Conference
Dr Chris Henstridge - Fading stars: disorder in the galaxy of the brain
Dr Sam Moxon - Are Sportspeople More Prone to MND?
Dr Jane Haley - UK Motor Neuron Disease Research Institute
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Searching for the ‘whole’ scientist - juggling academia
Dr Anna Volkmer - Visiting other research labs: A personal reflection
Dr Jodi Watt - Where LGBTQIA+ identities intersect with dementia
Rebecca Williams - Coding, Lessons from a Seamstress
Dr Yvonne Couch - How to Make a Female Professor
Navigating the aisles: Assessing dementia-friendliness of a supermarket as part of a university seminar
Dr Clarissa Giebel - How the Applied Research Collaboration influenced my career in dementia research
Dr Sam Moxon - How does an idea turn into a clinical product?
Ajantha Abey - Conference Insights: Top 10 Takeaways in Dementia Research
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Should you apply for a Lectureship?
Beth Eyre - The many hats of a dementia researcher
Hannah Hussain - Weightlifting is only for your younger years, right? … Wrong!
Dr Yvonne Couch - Developing a Plan B
Lisa Hammond - Back to Research
Dr Gaia Brezzo - The Blot thickens; using Western Blotting in research
Dr Anna Volkmer - Does my patient understand what my research study is about?
Dr Clarissa Giebel- Halving Social Care Reform Budget, what it means to dementia
Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - Non-pharmacological interventions: methods matter
Dr Sam Moxon - The Academic Exodus
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - What is an ‘Early Career Researcher’?
Dr Connor Richardson - Getting Involved in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Leadership
Rebecca Williams - Apathy Research: Why Should We Bother?
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Impact of a Paper
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Sharing dementia knowledge and support with other countries
Hannah Hussain - Introduction to Psychometrics
Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - Dementia Research and Advocacy
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Moving four-ward, could a 4-day working week work in academia?
Dr Timothy Daly - From Journal Clubs to Letter Writing for ECRs: Why and How
Dr Connor Richardson - My Path to an NIHR ARC Dementia Fellowship
Dr Anna Volkmer - Every penny counts, small grant applications
Dr Sam Moxon - Should we get paid for peer review?
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Using immunohistochemistry to understand disease pathology
Dr Clarissa Giebel - International Women’s Day, gender equity in science and celebrating fellow women’s achievements
Beth Eyre - How to find a Postdoc Job
Adam Smith - Find the right journal for your research & avoid predators
Dr Yvonne Couch - How Being Seen Might Matter in Science
Hannah Hussain - Vitamins, Food Supplements & Dementia
Anna Marie Rosická - 5 things I wish I knew before starting my PhD
Dr Sam Moxon - How to Navigate a Job Switch
Dr Gaia Brezzo - To cross or not to cross the picket line: striking as an ECR.
Dr Connor Richardson - Am I in “Career Drift Mode?”
Dr Anna Volkmer - Writing a paper with lots of co-authors
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Public Involvement & Engagement in Research
Dr Aida Suárez-Gonzalez - Building positive narratives about dementia
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Peer Reviewing Grant Applications
Beth Eyre - Writing a fellowship application
Dr Yvonne Couch - Procrastination the Thief of Time
Dr Clarissa Giebel - The value of academic travel and face-to-face networking
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali blog - Why ECRs need good mentors
Dr Diana Karamacoska - Fostering inclusivity in dementia research and teams
Dr Diana Karamacoska - Fomentar la inclusión en la investigación y los equipos de demencia
Hannah Hussain - Outcomes Matter
Dr Megan Polden - Evaluation of Singing & Dancing Interventions for Dementia
Dr Victoria Shepherd - Advance planning for research participation
Dr Sam Moxon - My top tips for Veganuary
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Reflections for 2022; another year of science
Adam Smith - New Year’s Resolutions
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Avoiding Burnout, taking stock(ings) over Christmas
Dr Yvonne Couch - Prioritising
Dr Connor Richardson - My Research Career from Biochemistry to Biostatistics
Nathan Stephens - Addressing Market Failure: why we can’t let the market win
Dr Sam Moxon - Looking back on 2022: A year of change
Dr Clarissa Giebel - INTERDEM Taskforce exploring Inequalities in Care
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Should failure be normalised in academia?
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Early career research events: to attend or not to attend?
Dr Yvonne Couch - Stem Cells
Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - Embedding PPI in our ReadClear Tech Trial
Dr Connor Richardson - Introductions
Nathan Stephens - Designing and Distributing Questionnaires
Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon - 2nd December
Dr Yvonne Couch - BIG Data
Danielle Wilson - Technology to Help Care
Thaïs Caprioli - The benefits and drawbacks of accessing post-diagnostic support remotely
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Advances in digital cognitive assessments for dementia diagnosis
Pippa Kirby - Communicating Smart Technology
Dr Sam Moxon - Nanomedicine in Dementia Research
Dr Alan Cronemberger Andrade - Digital phenotyping in dementia and neurology: we have questions
Hannah Hussain - Virtual Reality
Dr Anna Volkmer - Finding your cheer team: Maintaining resilience in academia
Dr Gaia Brezzo - The importance of lived experience in research
Beth Eyre - Hello imposter syndrome my old friend
Dr Anna Volkmer - Going on my own: Being my own boss for my new fellowship
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Innovative long-term care for dementia
Dr Yvonne Couch - Is Leadership Important In Science?
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Writing my first grant application
Dr Sam Moxon - Are We Entering a “Golden Age” of Dementia Research?
Dr Gaia Brezzo - Teaching as an ECR, why take the time to do it?
Beth Eyre - Two–photon microscopy: How can it be used in Alzheimer’s research?
Nathan Stephens - A guide to mixed methods research design
Dr Anna Volkmer - The outcome: My NIHR Advanced Fellowship Application
Dr Clarissa Giebel - World Alzheimer Report 2022, Post-diagnostic care or lack thereof
Dr Yvonne Couch - Angiogenesis
Introducing Dr Gaia Brezzo
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - From Postdoc to Lecturer
Nathan Stephens - Physical Activity & Dementia: increasing opportunities and reducing inequalities
Beth Eyre - Why should you apply to be an ISTAART Ambassador?
Hannah Hussain - Medicines Management in Dementia
Dr Sam Moxon - The Importance of Public Trust in Science
Dr Clarissa Giebel - From remote to face-to-face international research understanding the mental health needs of older adults in Colombia
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Great Academic Resignation
Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - How to prepare a search strategy for your systematic review
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - How academic misconduct affects ECRs
Dr Anna Volkmer - Study Pre-registration: Say it, do it, share it
Nathan Stephens - Positionality and reflexivity, and why it’s not just for qualitative research
Beth Eyre - A guide to moving abroad as a PhD student
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Making an impact: A week in Westminster with the Royal Society
Hannah Hussain - Stepping outside of academia
Dr Yvonne Couch - How to be a Peer Reviewer
Adam Smith - Do you need research funding?
Dr Sam Moxon - Communication is one of your best research tools: Here’s why
Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - Age at onset in atypical Alzheimer´s: why it matters
Dr Clarissa Giebel - The value of conferences in a since-pandemic world
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Is it time to look at alternatives to rodent models for dementia breakthroughs?
Nathan Stephens - An incoherent blurb from an unpaid family care worker
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Do you have to be a good writer to be a successful academic?
Meet Esra Hassan, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Dr Yvonne Couch - Negative Data
Dr Anna Volkmer - Can Conversation Analysis inflitrate mainstream Dementia Research?
Dr Sam Moxon - Are we Proactive Enough about Dementia?
Dr Clarissa Giebel - From PhD student to supervisor
Dr Aida Suárez-Gonzalez - Top Tips to Nail your Research Job Interview
Beth Eyre - How to deliver an engaging scientific presentation
Nathan Stephens - Alzheimer’s Society Annual Conference
Dr Yvonne Couch - Money Management
Hannah Hussain - Tops tips for your first literature review
Dr Sam Moxon - The Mental Struggle of Living with Chronic Illness
Adam Smith - A Mental Health Update
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Who Cares for the Carers?
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Curse of the Three-Year Fellowship
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - The importance of including both sexes in preclinical dementia research
Beth Eyre - How to get the most out of your PhD experience
Nathan Stephens - What is Value? A Concept Analysis
Masha Burelo - Cannabinoids for better sleep?
Clíona Farrell - Dementia in Down syndrome and the role of neuroinflammation
Hannah Hussain - Can fasting help prevent dementia?
Dr Anna Volkmer - Aphasia, public awareness
Dr Yvonne Couch - How to Present your Research
Dr Sam Moxon - How to Nail Your Conference Abstract
Beth Eyre - Networking: what is it and how do you approach it as a PhD student?
Hannah Hussain - The impact of furry friend’s on people with dementia…
Nathan Stephens - Redressing the ‘gold standard’ for evaluating complex interventions
Marianne Cranwell - On feeling qualitative research, being naïve, and a wee bit of crying
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Do equality, diversity & inclusion policies provide sufficient support for ECRs?
Leanne Greene & Alex Gude - Judging capacity in dementia studies
Dr Yvonne Couch - Quitting
Masha Burelo - Pesticides in Cannabis
Dr Sam Moxon - Do we need to peer review the process of peer review?
Dr Anna Volkmer - The making of the clinical academic…the façade is slipping
Meet Dr Emmanuelle Vire, University College London
Meet Dr Soraya Meftah, The University of Edinburgh
Meet Beth Eyre, University of Sheffield
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - What is “brain health” and is it important?
Nathan Stephens - Am I doing PPI or Was that PPI?
Meet Dr Mizuki Morisaki, University of St Andrews
Meet Elizabeth English, University of Cambridge
Meet Dr Ian Harrison, University College London
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Running a Journal Club and how to be Reviewer 2 in a safe environment
Felicity Slocombe and Chloe Waterman - Dementia and stigma through the lenses of neuro-culture and neoliberalism
Adam Smith - Dementia Champions - Inspiring or a false narrative?
Masha Burelo - Cannabinoids and Anxiety
Dr Yvonne Couch - Brain Imaging, Inside The Black Box
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Overseas Collaborations
Hannah Hussain - Women and Girls in Science: Agents of Change
Beth Eyre - The Perils of ’what next...?’
Jodi Parslow - Research ’Flies’ When You’re Having Fun
Dr Anna Volkmer - The Interview
Dr Sam Moxon - Hospital in a Time of Covid (from my own experience)
Hannah Hussain - Beating the Winter Blues
Dr James Quinn - The Trials and Tribulations of Doing an Academic Postdoc Abroad
Nathan Stephens - Don’t Say the ’D’ Word
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Blood Brain Barrier
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - What neuropathology can tell us about the brain diseases which lead to dementia
Beth Eyre - The highs and lows of scientific research
Masha Burelo - From the plant to the lab
Dr Clarissa Giebel - From costings to successfully managing a research budget
Dr Yvonne Couch - Inflammation and the Brain, thinking outside the box
Nathan Stephens - The Imperfection in Reflection (A Day in the Life of Nathan)
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Surviving a bad viva
Felicity Slocombe - Couplehood & co-remembering, the bond of a lifetime together
Hannah Hussain - 10 Christmas Ideas For The Researcher In Your Life
Dr Clarissa Giebel - What is mixed-methods research and how do you go about it?
Dr Anna Volkmer - Open access and dissemination, the story continues
Nathan Stephens - An introduction to Social Return on Investment
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - When to leave academia, and how to return if you change your mind
Dr Sam Moxon - How to Develop Research Independence
Dr Yvonne Couch - Academic Life and the Problems of Perpetual Post-Docing
Beth Eyre - Three important things to remember when preparing for a PhD interview
Hannah Hussain - Player 001
Felicity Slocombe - Conversation analysis beginnings, tips and lessons learned
Morgan Daniel - Job Hunting
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Another year, another Liverpool Dementia Conference!
Dr Yvonne Couch - Err On the Side of Patronising: Writing Tips
Beth Eyre - How does the brain clean itself? And is this linked to Alzheimer’s?
Adam Smith - Disrupting Dementia Research Careers
Dr Anna Volkmer – Intervention planning in dementia: knowing people well
Hannah Hussain - Finalising the 1st year of your PhD! Preparing for your confirmation review
Dr Sam Moxon - Can we 3D print revolutionary dementia research?
Nathan Stephens - Social Value: a vehicle for social change
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Grant Rejections, the norm in academia
Dr Yvonne Couch - The edge of anxiety
Felicity Slocombe - “Do you remember…”: Studying remembering together using conversation analysis
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Has a reliance on animal models delayed progress in dementia research?
Dr Yvonne Couch - Dear Scientist... Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
Dr Sam Moxon - The way we think about dementia has changed for the better
Beth Eyre - Five transferable skills you can gain from a PhD
Adam Smith adds to the World Dementia Council Global Voices
Dr Anna Volkmer - Green and gold: the highs and the lows of open access publications
Hannah Hussain - Top 10 tips for new PhD students
Nathan Stephens - Exploring the Meeting Centres Support Programme
World Alzheimer‘s Day Research Update Special
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Dementia reporting season, from inequalities to the Moon
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Why does brain injury increase the risk of dementia?
Felicity Slocombe - What the ethics? Negotiating ethics submissions
Beth Eyre - What I wish I‘d known before starting my PhD
Jessica Rees - How to engage participants remotely, lessons learnt during the pandemic
Dr Sam Moxon - Eat your vegetables, trust Me… It’s Important!
Dr Anna Volkmer - Anxiety dreams and short terms contracts
Hannah Hussain - What does a health economist do?
Nathan Stephens - Rebalancing Gender in Care
Dr Yvonne Couch - Your Résumé Needs You!
Morgan Daniel - Tips for taking care of yourself during Grad School
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - From aspiring psychologist to neuroscientist, my journey into dementia research
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Hybrid care, the future of dementia care?
Dr Sam Moxon - If research is so unpredictable, why do it?
Dr Yvonne Couch - Go with the flow
Beth Eyre - Is blood flow to the brain the missing link to helping us understand Alzheimer’s?
Morgan Daniel - My experience of online learning and what it has taught me
Adam Smith - AAIC 2021 Highlights
Felicity Slocombe - My first in-person event, experiences and reflections
Dr Anna Volkmer - Future funding: Applying for an NIHR advanced fellowship
Sharing my story, meet Hannah Hussain
‘First Steps’, introducing Nathan Stephens
Adam Smith - What do you want? How to write successful cold emails
Dr Yvonne Couch - A balancing act
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Social Care, why does it matter?
Dr Anna Volkmer - Including the voices of people with dementia
Adam Smith - How to build resilience and bounce back
Dr Sam Moxon - The Aduhelm Paradox
Beth Eyre - The importance of taking a break
Dr Christine Toomey - How does the brain bank work
UK Alzheimer’s Society opens new grant funding round
Felicity Slocombe - Introductions
Dr Yvonne Couch -The Hunt for Tiny Messengers
Social Isolation and Loneliness - ISTAART Research Perspectives Special
Morgan Daniel - MSc Dissertation
Dr Clarissa Giebel - It is the season of research grant deadlines
Dr Sam Moxon - How to Sell Your Conference Poster
Dr Fiona Calvert and Molly Massetti - Alzheimer’s Research UK’s call for Early Career Researchers
Dr Anna Volkmer - Using research to deliver change
Beth Eyre - What’s it like writing up your first journal article?
Dr Yvonne Couch - Respecting Your Betters
Dr Sam Moxon - How to Nail your CV
Bethany McLoughlin - How using mixed methods changed the direction of my PhD
Adam Smith - Mental Health Awareness Week and Me
Morgan Daniel -What I have learned from my MSc so far
Dr Siobhan Crilly & James Cooper - A new resource for translational stroke research
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Research networking in a socially distanced age
Dr Sam Moxon – Managing Unpredictable Workloads
Dr Yvonne Couch - Stroke 101
Dr Sarah Griffiths - Realist Methodology
Dr Anna Volkmer - Through the looking glass: Moving on from supervisee to supervisor
Charly Harris - How I discovered that it’s never too late to become an Early Career Researcher
Beth Eyre - My experience of the ARUK 2021 conference
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Where would we be without international research?
Professor Louise Serpell - How not to win a Nobel Prize – do we need to reassess “success” in science?
Morgan Daniel - Perfectionism, and how my relationship with University changed
Dr Yvonne Couch - Lead With a Success Story
Dr Anna Volkmer - Using qualitative methods in dementia: A rough guide to thematic analysis
Beth Eyre - Neurovascular coupling in Alzheimer’s disease, an introduction to my research area
Dr Sam Moxon - Tissue Stiffness, An Overlooked Aspect of Dementia?
Adam Smith - You are an expert and your opinion matters
Bethany McLoughlin - Spinning Plates and Tomatoes
Dr Sam Moxon - So your experiment failed...
How AMRC Open Research publishing platform contributes to dementia research
Dr Sam Moxon - Finding your place in dementia research
Nadine Mirza - A product of failure, how I fell in to dementia research
Dr Christina Toomey - Academia vs Medicine, why academia was the right choice for me
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Why I became involved in dementia research
Morgan Daniel - Is a Masters the right choice for me?
Dr Anna Volkmer - Dementia care over the last 25 years: From “there is nothing we can do” to “a range of interventions”
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Studying whilst working in dementia research – it’s possible!
Beth Eyre - Why should you become a lab-based dementia researcher?
Dr Ashvini Keshavan - My path into dementia research, and what I have learnt along the way
Dr Christina Toomey - Inspiring the next generation of dementia researchers
Morgan Daniel - Tips and tricks for effective studying
Find your future in Dementia Research at the firs Dementia Research Careers Festival
Bethany McLoughlin - Conducting Interviews Online During COVID-19
Dr Sam Moxon - Surviving Lockdown
Thaïs Caprioli - My initial PhD plans
Dr Emily Oliver - What should I research and how do I formulate a research question?
Morgan Daniel - Homesickness
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Embarking on international research during the pandemic
James Watson - A PhD during COVID-19
Dr Anna Volkmer - Implementation Science: Why Dementia Research is the most exciting place to be working…
Dr Prerana Sabnis - How the COVID-19 lockdown impacted people with dementia and their carers
Beth Eyre - Looking after your wellbeing as a PhD Student during a pandemic
Dr Alys Griffiths - Relational counselling as a psychosocial intervention for dementia
Morgan Daniel - Finding the right experience
Dr Emily Oliver - New year, new goals
Dr Sarah Griffiths and Dr Hannah Wheat - Interviewing people with dementia and carers remotely
Dr Sam Moxon - Science Operates on Evidence, not Proof
Dr Clarissa Giebel - How has 2020 changed dementia research and the research work-life balance?
Dr Anna Volkmer - Writing a systematic review when developing a novel intervention for dementia
Bethany McLoughlin - The first two months of my PhD
Morgan Daniel - Imposter Syndrome
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Planning and hosting a virtual conference
Beth Eyre - Introductions and discovering science
Dr Emily Oliver - Clinical Academic Roles in nursing- do they exist? And if so, where do I find one?
Dr Sam Moxon - Job hunting in a pandemic
Dr Anna Volkmer - A little bit of Conversation Analysis can tell us a great deal about dementia
Dr Katy Stubbs - Getting started in public engagement and involvement with research
Adam Smith - A few thoughts on peer review
Bethany McLoughlin - Introducing me and my research
Dr Ellen Dicks - Reflecting on year one as a Race Against Dementia Fellow
Dr Claire Durrant - Reflecting on year one as a Race Against Dementia Fellow
Dr Christy Hung - Reflecting on year one as a Race Against Dementia Fellow
Dr Cara Croft - Reflecting on year one as a Race Against Dementia Fellow
Dr Emily Oliver - Ethics committee, an insight into the other side
Morgan Daniel - My Masters degree so far
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Taking research outside of its bubble
Adam Smith - Should I (meaning you) do a Masters
Dr Anna Volkmer - The measure of COVID-19 on loneliness in dementia
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Using routine data for dementia research
Dr Emily Oliver - Introducing her regular series
Morgan Daniel - London Calling
Dr Anna Volkmer - Talking about diversity in dementia research
Adam Smith - It’s World Alzheimer’s Day and I have a message for Dementia Researchers
Morgan Daniel - Sharing my MSc Journey
Dr Anna Volkmer - The post doc puzzle …applying for an NIHR Development Skills Enhancement Award
Michelle Naessens - Brexit: a noose slowly strangling academic research in the UK?
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Waving the flag for better social care in dementia
Dr Emily Oliver - The 'insider' researcher debate in qualitative research, should there be one?
Dr Anna Volkmer - Doing a virtual viva and completing those darned amendments during COVID-19
Adam Smith - Ways to avoid rubbish video calls