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Lesley Cousland - Care Home Research: Getting the Balance Right

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Rahul Sidhu & Prisha Sharma - From Research to Clinical

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Beccy Owen - Beyond the Lab Bubble: Why PhD Teamwork Matters

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Dr Connor Richardson - Does Rugby Cause Dementia? A Player-Epidemiologist's View

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Bernie McInally - Pandas, dementia and why we need to reach Early Career Researchers

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Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie - When research becomes your reality: dementia and cancer

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Dr Yvonne Couch - Understanding Changes to UKRI Funding Strategy

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Emily Spencer - From Dreading My Thesis to Loving Writing

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Dr Clíona Farrell - Forty years of dementia progress; how many more to go?

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Dr Becky Carlyle - How not to lose the plot when you lose a postdoc

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Beccy Owen - 10 Things My PhD Has Taught Me So Far

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Jacqui Kerr - Returning to My Roots: Visiting a Memory Café

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Rahul Sidhu - My Grandad’s Story: Why I Became a Neuroscientist

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Dr Yvonne Couch - Brain Drain: The Controversy Around Glymphatics

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Dr Emma Law - pTau217 Blood Test for Alzheimer's: What the FDA Clearance Means

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Dr Ajantha Abey - More Research Habits I Wish I'd Started Earlier in My PhD

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Dr Connor Richardson - We're Still Not Counting LGBT People in Dementia Research

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Professor Louise Serpell - Getting a Grant Funded: A View from the Panel

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Beccy Owen - Giving Your First Seminar: What I Learned

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Harriet Greene - The PhD Comfort Zone

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Dr Emma Law - GCP Training: Do We Really Need Regular Refreshers?

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Professor Frank Gunn-Moore - An Academic career, then and now

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Dr Becky Carlyle - Building Labs Where It's Safe to Fail

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Emma & Sue Williams - A what? A Public Advisor Researcher? You may well ask…

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Emily Spencer - Overcoming Academic Conference Presentation Anxiety

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Adam Smith - Good Research Still Needs an Audience

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Dr Yvonne Couch - Pedagogy For Gen Z

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Dr Lindsey Sinclair - What Sport Can Teach Science

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Rahul Sidhu - Weightlifting and Creatine on Brain Health

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Dr Ajantha Abey - Research Habits I Wish I’d Started Earlier in My PhD

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Dr Clíona Farrell - An Alzheimer’s Cabaret

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Dr Connor Richardson - Small Vessel Disease: A Quiet Driver of Dementia

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Professor Louise Serpell - Football, CTE and the Science Protecting Future Players

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Beccy Owen - When Experiments Fail: Staying Positive in Research

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Harriet Greene - How I Found My Way into Dementia Research: Give to Gain

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Professor Frank Gunn-Moore: Do Cats, Dogs and Dolphins Get Dementia Too?

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Dr Sam Moxon - Why Some Ideas Never Get a Chance

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Dr Becky Carlyle - How I Started My Own Lecture Course

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Brandon Newman - Why data matters in human-centred dementia care

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Rahul Sidhu - Sleep and Dementia: Should We Worry?

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Dr Yvonne Couch - Academia and the Sense of Self

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Professor Louise Serpell - What's in a name? Amyloid, Amyloid-beta, Beta Amyloid, Amy-Lloyd

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Bernie McInally - Not a good advert for Dementia

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Emily Spencer - The Hidden Work of Finishing a PhD

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Dr Connor Richardson - Learning to Belong Somewhere New

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Dr Maria Drummond - What My First Major NIHR Award Taught Me

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The Report, Out Loud: Listening to Early Career Researchers

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Dr Tatiana A. Giovannucci - If I Fall Behind, I'll Fall Into Torpor

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Beccy Owen - The Trials and Tribulations of Electrophysiology

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Dr Sam Moxon - Unexpected Things Dementia Teaches us About Time

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Rahul Sidhu - Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking

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Dr Clíona Farrell - It’s getting (too) hot in here; the climate crisis and brain health

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Dr Yvonne Couch - The Contradictions & Challenges of the Junior PI

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Dr Toby Williamson - Finding values in research and dementia

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Dr Becky Carlyle - Building accessible and inclusive research environments

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Emily Spencer - Life After the PhD: My Fellowship Application

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Professor Louise Serpell - Alzheimer's Disease Takes a Lifetime

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Dr Connor Richardson - Leaving Your University After 10 Years

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Adam Smith - Remembering Terry Pratchett

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Bernie McInally - Making Care Home Research Visible

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Kirsty Hynes - No Care Homes Left Out in Dementia Research

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Dr Ajantha Abey - PhD Application Advice: Assessing & Approaching a New Lab

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Beccy Owen - The Long Way Round to a PhD

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Dr Sam Moxon - Knowing When to Apply for Your First Research Fellowship

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Dr Andrew Kiselica - Why "Normal" Cognition Is Hindering Preclinical Alzheimer’s Trials

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Rahul Sidhu - Momentum in Dementia Research: What I Saw at ARUK

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Jacqui Kerr - How clinical trials Site Initiation Visits work and why they matter

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Dr Clíona Farrell - Optimise, troubleshoot, repeat - Beginning a new project

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Dr Becky Carlyle - The Motherhood Penalty and Career Progression

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Emily Spencer - Motherhood, PhDs, and the Funding Gap

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Professor Louise Serpell - From Academia and Beyond

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Dr Emma Law - Managing patient expectations (without overpromising)

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Bernie McInally - If Only I Were an ECR Lessons from a Bangkok Park

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Dr Yvonne Couch - chatGPT in Academia

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Dr Sam Moxon - Real Food for Thought in the Fight Against Dementia

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Rahul Sidhu - Imposter Syndrome

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Dr Ajantha Abey - How I Came To Enjoy Public Speaking As An Introvert

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Dr Peter Connelly - Two Worlds of Clinical Trials

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Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Supervision vs Mentorship

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Dr Clíona Farrell - Returning to work after a travel-filled career break

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Emily Spencer - Learning to Let Good Be Enough

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Dr Gemma Lace - An Introverts Survival Guide to Conferences

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Professor Louise Serpell - A career in Alzheimer’s Research

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Dr Becky Carlyle - Academic overwhelm, you’re not the only one

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Dr Yvonne Couch - Storytelling in Academia

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Dr Emma Law - How We Ensure Safety in Dementia Drug Trials

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​Rahul Sidhu - My journey to a PhD in neuroscience: the highs & lows

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Dr Sam Moxon - Never Truly Known, The Reality of Lewy Body Dementia

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Adam Smith - Living alongside Hallucinations

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Ajantha Abey - From Alzheimer’s to Lewy Body Disease - Expanding our Research Horizons

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Dr Peter Connelly - Recognising Dementia with Lewy Bodies in Clinical Practice

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Rebecca Williams - Why you should Start Writing Blogs

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Dr Lindsey Sinclair - What Changing Institution Taught Me

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Dr Sam Moxon - Why the Business Side of Dementia Research Matters

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Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Protecting your Intellectual Property

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Adam Smith - What I thought I would be doing at 18

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Emily Spencer - Battling Disconnection

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Dr Tom Russ - Which medical specialty should treat and research dementia?

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Dr Sam Moxon - Working on the Move

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Dr Gemma Lace - Pursuing Your Passion: Finding Purpose in Chaos