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Salon – Books that have made me a better researcher
August 6 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
This weekly webinar series explores careers and research through live discussions, guest speakers, and interactive group chat. In this session, host Adam Smith is joined by Marianne Coleman and Rebecca Williams to explore the books that have challenged, motivated, or quietly reshaped them as researchers..
Some books teach us new methods or sharpen our academic skills. Others, often fiction, quietly shift how we see people, problems, and possibilities. Together, they shape how we think, how we listen, and how we approach the messy and human work of dementia research. It is not always the obvious titles that leave the deepest mark. So which books have challenged you, motivated you, or stayed with you long after the last page? Today, we will explore how both practical guides and powerful stories can make us better researchers.
Speakers
Dr Marianne Coleman is a Research Fellow at the National Centre for Healthy Ageing in Melbourne. Marianne qualified as an orthoptist in 2008 from University of Liverpool. After some time in clinical practice, she completed a Masters in Research at the University of Liverpool and then moved to Glasgow Caledonian University to study visual distortions arising in amblyopia for her PhD. After completing her PhD she moved to the University of Surrey in June 2016 to train in health services research and then on to The University of Melbourne in 2020.
Rebecca Williams is a PhD Student at University of Cambridge. Though originally from ‘up North’ in a small town called Leigh, Rebecca did her undergraduate and masters at the University of Oxford before defecting/seeing the light (depends who you ask) to Cambridge for her doctorate (if ever you were going to feel like an imposter… it’s at these institutions). Now Rebecca spends the majority of her days collecting data from our wonderful volunteers, and coding. In her spare time, she is a big fan of crafting in all its forms, and supporting children and young-people to seek careers in science.
