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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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Guest Blog – How to Make a Female Professor

02/06/2023

Dr Yvonne Couch

How do you get more female Professors? Feed the system with more female ECRs? Address the leaky pipeline? Or a big rethink? Dr Yvonne Couch explores

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Guest Blog – Navigating the aisles: Assessing dementia-friendliness of supermarkets

31/05/2023

Dementia Researcher

The blog discusses the assessment of a supermarket’s dementia-friendliness, highlighting the challenges faced by people with dementia in navigating and shopping

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Podcast – AAIC Satellite Symposium 2023 Highlights

29/05/2023

Dementia Researcher

Bringing you updates from the AAIC Satellite Symposium, held earlier this month in Mexico City, highlighting research from across Latin America.

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Towards A Cure, Alzheimer’s Research UK 10 year strategy

24/05/2023

Alzheimer's Research UK

Towards a Cure marks a pivotal moment both for everyone affected by dementia and for ARUK as they launch a new 10 year strategy

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Guest Blog – Conference Insights: Top 10 Takeaways in Dementia Research

19/05/2023

Ajantha Abey

Ajantha Abey shares insights from recent conferences: Therapeutic breakthroughs, biomarker revolution, digital innovation, spatial transcriptomics and more!

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Profile – Laura Garcia Diaz, WHO

09/06/2023

Dementia Researcher

Laura is a Consulant & PhD Student working with the WHO managing work on th eGlobal Dementia Observatory Knowledge Exchange Platform.

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Guest Blog – Where LGBTQIA+ identities intersect with dementia

09/06/2023

Dr Jodi Watt

Dr Jodi Watt explores LGBTQIA+ identities & dementia research, highlighting the lack of inclusion & unique challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ people with dementia

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Ask Your Mentor Podcast – Professor Heather Mortiboys

08/06/2023

Dementia Researcher

Dr Nikoleta Daskoulidou interviews her brilliant mentor Professor Heather Mortiboys, talks life, careers & research. In association with Alzheimer’s Research UK

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NIHR joins with top UK colleges for new e-learning programme

08/06/2023

NIHR

The NIHR has invested almost £1 million to create a new programme of e-learning content for health and care professionals with an interest in research.

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Nature Writing Courses

07/06/2023

Nature Careers Blog

Free courses for authors to build on your expertise delivered by experts from Nature, covering writing, peer review and more.

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Guest Blog – Coding, Lessons from a Seamstress

07/06/2023

Rebecca Williams

Rebecca Williams talks to the parallels between sewing and coding, offering advice for beginners & encouraging you to embrace failure as part of the process.

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6 tips for better coding with ChatGPT

06/06/2023

Nature Careers Blog

Although powerful, the tools are not as intelligent as they seem. Use them with caution, computer scientists warn, shared from Nature Careers.

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NIHR Academy new research career support for students

01/06/2023

NIHR

NIHR Academy has launched new schemes to give students insight into research careers in health, social work and public health, includes funding to host students

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New dementia strategy for Scotland

01/06/2023

Dementia Researcher

The new Dementia Strategy for Scotland is a 10-year vision for change, developed in collaboration with people with lived experience and wider partners.

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Ghosted: how to move on when a collaborator stops responding

31/05/2023

Nature Careers Blog

Don’t blame yourself if an enthusiastic and productive first encounter goes nowhere, says Aditya Simha in this post from Nature Careers.