The Life Scientist’s Guide To Cost-Saving In The Lab
Dementia ResearcherIn this Life Scientist’s Guide To Cost-Saving In The Lab, neuroscience PhD student Karolina Farrell from UCL shares her top tips for cutting costs (not corners) in the lab.
Partner Blogs
Alzheimer’s Research UK – Dementia Attitudes Monitor
Blog shared from Hilary Evans for Alzheimer’s Research UK – New report published by Alzheimer’s Research UK shines a light on the UK’s attitudes towards dementia and research
Cleaning up, ready for the next phase
Is your desk a hot mess right now? Dr Linda Devereux can relate. In this post she shares the touching story of cleaning her office after the PhD was finished and the unexpected difficulty of the clearing out process.
Gender equity in health research funding
LSE Impact BlogResearch shows women continue to face systematic disadvantages in research funding competitions, publishing, hiring, and promotion. In this blog from the LSE, Zena Sharman considers… ‘What do we know, what do we wish we knew, and where do we go from here?’
Plugging the leaky pipeline for UK female chemists
The Royal Society of Chemistry has a plan to boost retention and promotion of female academic researchers.
How Facebook and Twitter could be the next disruptive force in clinical trials
Participants in medical research are more empowered than ever to influence the design and outcomes of experiments. Now, researchers are trying to keep up.
At the coalface for Dementias Platform UK
Blog from Joshua Bauermeister for DPUK, providing an insight into a key job that makes it possible for researchers to compare data across different cohorts in the Data Portal.
Twenty things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD
Recent PhD graduate Lucy A. Taylor shares the advice she and her colleagues wish they had received.
Maximising the potential of ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ in dementia research
PPI in research continues to evolve to improve and mould to the needs of the research community
Standing shoulder to shoulder to conduct research – academics, carers, and people with dementia
Blog from Dr Jen Yates – delivering patient and public involvement, looking into the way that care is provided to people with dementia who experience a mental health crisis
How to handle the one-size-fits-all PhD
Using various strategies to help cope with the pressures and demands of doctoral programmes.
Maximising the potential of ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ in dementia research
PPI in research continues to evolve to improve and mould to the needs of the research community