Our blogs cover a whole range of topics, to help early career dementia researchers (ECRs). Our contributors share information about their research, from social care to basic science, share advice from their own experiences, careers tips, what they learned from recent training events and conferences and much more. We have a small team of ECR staff bloggers who write each month, on a whole range of topics and every year we add more people who discuss their experiences of studying at particular places or on different topics. In addition to our staff bloggers, we welcome one-off contributions, and curate and link to content from other great sources, including our charity partners, the LSE Impact Blog, Nature Careers and where ever great support can be found.
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We are always on the lookout for new contributors, so if you would like to write for us, just head to the forum to drop us a line, or email dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk
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Blog – Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
Rahul Sidhu on turning public speaking from his greatest fear into something he genuinely enjoys, with seven tips he picked up along the way.
Only One in Four Governments Has a Dementia Plan
Only 1 in 4 governments has a national dementia plan — yet 139 million people will be affected by 2050. Read the new ADI report: From Plan to Impact 2026.
When Peer Review Feels Personal
In this Solutions Lab, two researchers share how they cope when peer review feels personal, unfair, and difficult to shake off after rejection.
Profile – Dr Laura Pritschet, University of Pennsylvania
Dr Laura Pritschet, NIH funded postdoctoral scholar at Penn studying hormones, womens brain health, cognition, and Alzheimer’s risk through life.
Blog – It’s getting (too) hot in here; the climate crisis & brain health
Dr Clíona Farrell on what the Hot Brain conference revealed about heatwaves, air pollution and the brain health of people with dementia.
Calling all past Dementia Researcher contributors
Former Dementia Researcher contributors, please complete our survey. We may have missed you by email, but we still want to hear from you.
Profile – Dr Lesley Williamson, King’s College London
Dr Lesley Williamson is a postdoctoral researcher at King’s College London, improving integrated palliative dementia care from diagnosis to end of life.
Help shape future trials for multiple long-term conditions
Round 2 of a Delphi study from Professor Laura Gray at Leicester is open. Help rank the methodological priorities for future MLTC trials. Closes 28 June.
XXplored Podcast – Women, Hormones & Mental Health: Rethinking Psychiatric Disorders
Why do mood disorders cluster around hormonal change? Vibe Frøkjær and Franziska Weinmar join Laura Stankeviciute on women’s brain biology.
Blog – The Contradictions & Challenges of the Junior PI
Dr Yvonne Couch on the junior PI trap: you train people up, lose them to bigger labs, and try to define a job nobody else has defined for you.
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