Catchup – Salon – Acing Job Interviews

In this session we talk about Acing Job Interviews.

Imagine stepping into a room, not just to discuss your qualifications for a job, but to unlock the doors to revolutionary dementia research. Every question you answer, every scenario you analyse, isn’t just about landing a job—it’s about challenging the very boundaries of what we understand about the human brain and memory. In this Salon, we get behind the scenes of what it’s like to interview for a position where your work could directly contribute to groundbreaking discoveries in dementia research, where every candidate’s response can be as crucial as the research questions they aim to solve. What does it take to get the job?

Dr Warren Donnellan – is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Liverpool. Warren’s research interests lie in the intersecting areas of resilience, (un)paid caregiving, and dementia. Warren was awarded a Senior Fellowship of Advance HE in 2019 in recognition of his educational leadership. He is also a member of the British Society of Gerontology and a Chartered Psychologist who has been both an interviewer and interviewee.

Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie – has a MA in Psychology, an MSc in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology, and a PhD in Psychology, all from the University of Edinburgh. While completing her PhD, Chloe worked as a psychometric testing officer at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology and a research assistant for the Dementias Platform UK. Both these roles involved developing cognitive assessments for large-scale studies. Chloe has put a lot of thought into how you get the job you want in academia, and how this goes beyond the interview.