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All the posts every put on our website. Blogs, Podcasts, Careers Support, News and all the good stuff that you wouldn’t want to miss. Only made possible thanks to funding from our amazing partners, NIHR, Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society & Race Against Dementia.

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Blog – How I Came To Enjoy Public Speaking As An Introvert

04/03/2026

Ajantha Abey

Dr Ajantha Abey reflects on moving from stage fright to enjoying public speaking, and how practice, teaching, and confidence shaped their voice as a researcher.

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Blog – Two Worlds of Clinical Trials

26/02/2026

Dr Peter Connelly

Dr Peter Connelly explores the differences between academic and industry sponsored clinical trials and what they mean for recruitment, intensity and practice.

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Podcast – Life As A Researcher Living With ADHD

23/02/2026

Dementia Researcher

Life as a dementia researcher with ADHD: hyperfocus, rejection sensitivity, medication, hormones and surviving academia. Personal and practical. Listen now.

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DEMON Webinar Recording: Precision Molecular Epidemiology

18/02/2026

DEMON Network

Dr Natàlia Vilor Tejedor explores genetics, risk factors and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer disease in this DEMON Biomarkers Group talk recorded 11 Feb 2026.

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Blog – Learning to Let Good Be Enough

18/02/2026

Emily Spencer

Emily Spencer reflects on perfectionism during her PhD, asking if striving for excellence can sometimes limit progress and wellbeing.

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Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed?

13/03/2026

LSE Impact Blog

Ulf Sandström revisits the famous 2.4 times gender bias claim in academic peer review, showing how field differences change the result and lessons for policy.

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Profile – Beccy Owen, University of Warwick

13/03/2026

Dementia Researcher

Beccy Owen is a PhD researcher at the University of Warwick studying how tau pathology disrupts neuronal ion channels and brain activity in Alzheimer’s disease.

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Catch-up on recordings from the Salon Research Showcase

13/03/2026

Dementia Researcher

The Dementia Researcher Salon Research Showcase features weekly talks where researchers present studies and findings in dementia research. Watch on YouTube.

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Profile – Ivana Kancheva

13/03/2026

Dementia Researcher

Ivana Kancheva is a PhD candidate at Leiden University Medical Center studying biomarkers and blood brain barrier changes in cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

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Dementia Researcher Solutions Lab – Here to Help!

13/03/2026

Dementia Researcher

We’re excited to unveil the Solutions Lab, a place where you can submit your questions or dilemmas anonymously for thoughtful, experience-based advice

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Podcast – Rainwater Prize Winners: Advancing Tau Research

12/03/2026

Dementia Researcher

Rainwater Prize winners Dennis Dickson, Melissa Murray and Marc Busche join Louise Serpell to discuss tau biology, brain banks, biomarkers and future therapies.

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Blog – ChatGPT in Academia

12/03/2026

Dr Yvonne Couch

Dr Yvonne Couch explores how researchers use ChatGPT in academia, asking if it boosts productivity, changes research culture, or exposes deeper problems.

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NIHR RSS Environmental Impact of Clinical Trials

11/03/2026

NIHR

NIHR Webinar on reducing the carbon footprint of clinical trials with Paula Williamson, Jessica Griffiths & Lisa Fox exploring methods, data & behaviour change

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Blog – Real Food for Thought in the Fight Against Dementia

11/03/2026

Dr Sam Moxon

A moving blog from Dr Sam Moxon on Lewy body dementia, diagnosis uncertainty, family experience, and why awareness matters even without clear answers

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Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2026

09/03/2026

Alzheimer's Association

AAIC 2026, 12 to 15 July in London and online, brings dementia researchers and innovators together at the world’s largest Alzheimer’s research meeting.

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Profile – Professor Jason Warren, University College London

09/03/2026

Dementia Researcher

Professor Jason Warren, neurologist at UCL Dementia Research Centre, studies hearing, language and primary progressive aphasia to understand dementia.

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AAIC Neuroscience Next Manchester 2026 – Session Recordings

05/03/2026

Dementia Researcher

Missed AAIC Neuroscience Next Manchester 2026? Watch biomarker session recordings spanning cognition, imaging, behaviour and technology via our playlist.