Blog – 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.
Blog – From Dreading My Thesis to Loving Writing
Emily Spencer writes about how self-imposed deadlines, taming her inner critic and a writing retreat turned academic writing into her favourite part of a PhD.
Blog – Forty years of dementia progress; how many more to go?
Dr Clíona Farrell reports from a UCL200 screening of the Carol Jennings documentary: forty years of progress, and the gaps in diagnosis, care and funding left.
Blog – How not to lose the plot when you lose a postdoc
Dr Becky Carlyle on what a PI loses when a postdoc leaves, and the record keeping, offboarding and reframing that keep a lab going without them.
Blog – 10 Things My PhD Has Taught Me So Far
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.
Blog – Returning to My Roots: Visiting a Memory Café
Jacqui Kerr spent an afternoon at a rural Alzheimer Scotland memory café. Tea, shortbread, and a sharp reminder of why research delivery matters.
Blog – My Grandad’s Story: Why I Became a Neuroscientist
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.
Blog – Brain Drain: The Controversy Around Glymphatics
Dr Yvonne Couch on the glymphatic system row: what we actually know about how the brain clears fluid, and where scientists still disagree.
Blog – pTau217 Blood Test for Alzheimer’s: What the FDA Clearance Means
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 still fits.
Blog – More Research Habits I Wish I’d Started Earlier in My PhD
Dr Ajantha Abey shares six more PhD habits worth starting early, covering notes, ideas, networks, conferences, side projects and life after the PhD.
Blog – We’re Still Not Counting LGBT People in Dementia Research
Dr Connor Richardson looks at what we know about dementia risk in LGBT people, why the evidence is so thin, and what LGBT dementia research needs next.
Blog – Getting a Grant Funded: A View from the Panel
Getting a grant funded starts with knowing what the panel wants. Louise Serpell shares advice from the review board, summary to interview.
Blog – Giving Your First Seminar: What I Learned
Beccy Owen spent months dreading her first seminar. Preparing for it turned out to be the most useful thing she did all year. Here's what she learned.
Blog – The PhD Comfort Zone
Harriet Greene was comfortable in her Oxford lab, so she spent 3 weeks in a Spanish one instead, this is her blog on why the PhD comfort zone is worth leaving.
Blog – GCP Training: Do We Really Need Regular Refreshers?
Dr Emma Law does her GCP update every two years and wondered why. She traces the rules back to 1947, and shares what changed in her latest refresher
Blog – An Academic career, then and now
Professor Frank Gunn-Moore on 40 years in research, the three gambles that shaped his career, and why collaboration and early career researchers matter most.
Blog – Building Labs Where It’s Safe to Fail
Dr Becky Carlyle on what happens in a lab after something goes badly wrong, and why the group leader's reaction matters more than the mistake.
A what? A Public Advisor Researcher? You may well ask…
Emma and Sue Williams are Public Advisor Researchers at the University of Liverpool. Two years in, they explain a job nobody could describe to them.
Blog – Overcoming Academic Conference Presentation Anxiety
Emily Spencer on conference presentation anxiety, returning to conference season after maternity leave, and why the talk she dreaded went better than expected.
Blog – Good Research Still Needs an Audience
Adam Smith on why good research does not speak for itself, and how science communication and visibility help findings get used and careers get noticed.
Blog – Pedagogy For Gen Z
Dr Yvonne Couch on teaching Gen Z, why lecture cliffhangers are ridiculous, what small group teaching gets right, and the skills ChatGPT can never hand them.
Blog – What Sport Can Teach Science
Dr Lindsey Sinclair on what sport can teach science, from rowing races to research projects, teamwork, marginal gains, goal setting and losing gracefully.
Blog – Weightlifting and Creatine on Brain Health
Rahul Sidhu weighs up whether lifting weights and taking creatine actually protect the brain, and what the dementia evidence really supports.
Blog – Research Habits I Wish I’d Started Earlier in My PhD
Dr Ajantha Abey shares the PhD lab hacks he wishes he had started earlier: experiment numbering, file naming, notes, references and figures
Blog – An Alzheimer’s Cabaret
Dr Clíona Farrell reviews Unforgettable, a funny, sad cabaret about familial Alzheimer's, and what it taught her about listening to families.
Blog – Small Vessel Disease: A Quiet Driver of Dementia
Dr Connor Richardson on small vessel disease: the vascular driver behind almost half of dementia cases, and maybe our best shot at prevention.
Blog – Football, CTE & the Science Protecting Future Players
On World Cup final day, Louise Serpell explores football’s links to CTE—and how research, safer rules and better awareness could protect future players.
Blog – When Experiments Fail: Staying Positive in Research
Beccy Owen on why a failed experiment does not make you a bad scientist, and how to keep a positive mindset when the work refuses to cooperate.
Blog – How I Found My Way into Dementia Research
Harriet Greene got into an Oxford PhD at 23 with no master's, via Bali, a broken arm and a Greek dive boat. Her first blog on the give to gain principle.
Blog – Do Cats, Dogs and Dolphins Get Dementia Too?
Can animals get dementia? Frank Gunn-Moore explores what cats, dogs, dolphins and whales can teach us about ageing, memory and Alzheimer’s.
