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Catchup – Salon – Returning to Research After a Career Break
21/08/2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

A weekly gathering to discuss careers and research topics, inspired by 17th and 18th century salons from Paris, with a modern twist. These sessions combine livestreams, guest speakers and group chat to exchange ideas, challenge, influence, inspire and educate.
In this session we talk about Returning to Research After a Career Break.
Returning to a research career after a career break (recognising that this is often after starting a family or period of care, or a job change) can be both exciting and daunting. Reconnecting with your networks and staying updated on the latest developments in your field can help the proces. But should you also be attending conferences? (nice if you can afford it), of course you could also use our app to re-establish connections and gain insight into current research trends. But what’s it really like coming back? How do you do it, should you do it? In this weeks Salon our speakers share their experiences, and we hope you will join us to also share yours. Together we can support each other, talk through the challenges, find solutions and workout how things could be made better by the institutions we work for.
Speakers
Dr Loukia Katsouri – studies the molecular mechanisms of tau propagation in Alzheimer’s disease at University College London. She aims to understand how the presence of tau is affecting the spread and the severity of the disease. With her own experience of a career break, Loukia has valuable insights.
Dr Claire Potter – is a Specialty Trainee in General Adult and Old Age Psychiatry and ICAT Fellow in Queen’s University Belfast and Fulbright Student Awardee. Claire graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2013 and entered Psychiatry training in 2015 obtaining her MRCPsych in 2017. Claire had a career break in 2022, and has lived through the challenges of getting back to work.
Programme
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