A PhD… plus four kids?!
Thesis WhispererSarah Stanford undertoook a PhD researching self-harm. In this blog she provides great advice for anyone thinking about the challenges of PhD and Parenting.
Dissemination
A Quick Guide to Peer Reviewing Scientific Papers
Dementia ResearcherFrom HelloBio – help tin conducting onstructive peer reviews, making it not as daunting as you might think.
A retrospective analysis of the peer review
Most funding agencies rely on peer review to evaluate grant applications and proposals, but do changes to process affect funding decisions?
A tool for navigating your research career
LSE Impact BlogNew tool to help map your activities exposing where activity is clustered, supporting you to be strategic and selective in what you take on to support your career priorities and goals.
A voice from the precariat
Thesis Whisperer post by Dr Pippa Yeoman who has started what is beginning to be called the ‘post-post-post doc’ stage of the academic career
AAIC Advancements – Abstract Deadlines
Alzheimer's AssociationSubmit abstracts to present at AAIC Advancements: APOE / Immunity, two conferences to foster collaboration & drive advancements in neuroscience
Academics Need to Talk
Academics Need to Talk is a global movement of the academic community to support each other through the pandemic – get some help.
Achieving a good work-life balance.. or should that be life-work balance?
Listen to Professor Alexandra Olaya-Castro and Professor Geraint Rees in this UCL Podcast, discussing the challenges and turning points in their careers as they maintain the balance between success in academia and personal life.
Across Time and Space: Machine Learning Reveals Paths to Dementia
Alz ForumDeveloping computational algorithms & machine-learning techniques, to transform cross-sectional imaging data to a longitudinal picture and reconstruct the sequence of disease progression.
Adam Smith adds to the World Dementia Council Global Voices
Our Programme Director Adam Smith was asked to write a blog for the World Dementia Council, take look to see how he connected ECRs to Space X Inspiration 4.
Advance Kenyan science – seize opportunities to collaborate
Nature Careers BlogHow networks can help to win research grants and equip labs in Africa – shared from Nature Careers.
Advice from the high seas: how to transition to a new lab
Respect for what you and your colleagues bring to the table is vital to successful integration, says Melissa T. Miller in her blog for Nature Careers