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.
To help find what you're looking for, you can browse through the articles, or use the filters on the right to find blogs by a particular person, or on a particular topic.
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
All of our blogs (since April 2020) come with narrations from the writer. You can listen while you read along on our website, or enjoy our blogs on the move via your podcast app. You can subscribe to our narrated blogs in your podcasts app, look for Dementia Researcher Blogs, or visit one of these platforms, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify and Goodpods.
Blog – Four takes on observing the ARUK grant review board – Take Four by Dr Nazira Albargothy
This is the third of three guest blogs from Early Career Researchers who observed the recent ARUK Grant Review Board
Blog – Four takes on observing the ARUK grant review board – Take Three by Dr Barbara Kramarz
This is the third of three guest blogs from Early Career Researchers who observed the recent ARUK Grant Review Board
Blog – Four takes on observing the ARUK grant review board – Take Two by Dr Hannah Scott
This is the second of three guest blogs from Early Career Researchers who observed the recent ARUK Grant Review Board
Blog – Four takes on observing the ARUK grant review board – Take One by Dr Kira Shaw
This is the first of three guest blogs from Early Career Researchers who observed the recent ARUK Grant Review Board
Blog – Manchester and North West Network Early-Career Researcher Conference
Did you miss the Alzheimer’s Research UK North-West Network early-careers research event? No worries, we have you covered.
Blog – Doing it for the girls: juggling academic and family life
Blog from Dr Anna Volkmer, exploring life as a researcher and mother and how to balance the two sides of life in academia
Blog – Forging New Frontiers in Dementia Research
A blog from Naomi Gallant an Occupational Therapist with Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, living in Bournemouth and currently undertaking a Clinical Academic PhD in Dementia Care at the University of Southampton.
Blog – Public Engagement and Academia – Some Things to Consider
Blog by Dr Stephen Gordon* *completed PhD in 2013 and now words as an Adviser at the University of Manchester.
Blog – Why Every Researcher Should Have a Science Blog
Blog by Maya Gosztyla discussing the rising demand for scientists to step up and take the lead on communicating their own research to the public.
Blog – Better Conversations for people with Primary Progressive Aphasia
Anna Volkmer is a NIHR Doctoral Fellow at University College London, in her blog she discusses her work to develop a new speech and language therapy intervention for people with language led dementia.
Blog – Caring for people who have dementia in Community Hospitals
Paul Brownbill, is from the University of South Wales, in his blog he talks about ‘Quality of Life and the Role of Communal Space in Sheltered Housing'

