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- Understanding Changes to the UKRI Funding Strategy
Dr Yvonne Couch reads UKRI's new grant assessment plans and asks what fewer, longer grants, triage and interviews mean for early and mid-career researchers.
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Beccy Owen on 10 things my PhD has taught me so far, from troubleshooting and resilience to boundaries, confidence and not having your career mapped out.
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Jacqui Kerr spent an afternoon at a rural Alzheimer Scotland memory café. Tea, shortbread, and a sharp reminder of why research delivery matters.
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Rahul Sidhu writes about his grandad, who lived with vascular dementia, and what watching his decline as a teenager taught him about his work today.
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Dr Yvonne Couch on the glymphatic system row: what we actually know about how the brain clears fluid, and where scientists still disagree.
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Dr Emma Law on what the FDA clearance of the pTau217 blood test means for dementia research, from recruitment and trial design to where PET imaging…
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