News & Features

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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Profile – Dr Charlèss Dupont, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

12/10/2022

Dementia Researcher

Postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel exploring ementia, palliative care, and technology as part of the CAPACITY Project

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Blog – Are We Entering a “Golden Age” of Dementia Research

12/10/2022

Dr Sam Moxon

Dr Sam Moxon, from University of Manchester gives us a potted history lesson of Alzheimer’s Disease and drug treatments from 600AD to 2022

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Profile – Simone Anna Felding, DZNE

12/10/2022

Dementia Researcher

PhD Student in the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), exploring use of social robots for people with dementia within the DISTINCT Group.

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Balance is needed when discussing academic careers

11/10/2022

Nature Careers Blog

Is a stream of negativity putting people off academia? Let’s acknowledge the good, as well as the bad. Blog by John Tregoning share from Nature Careers

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Podcast – How to create a Narrative CV

10/10/2022

Dementia Researcher

The next time you submit a grant application or apply for a promotion, you may need a new kind of CV, are you ready? This podcast can help.

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Profile – Dr Claartje Vinkenburg, Amsterdam NL

07/10/2022

Dementia Researcher

Independent expert consultant focussed on diversity in careers, specifically on gender and research careers now working with funders, EU and Universities.

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Blog – Teaching as an ECR, why take the time to do it?

06/10/2022

Dr Gaia Brezzo

Dr Gaia Brezzo explores how her joint research-teaching experience helped her as an ECR, and provides a few tips on teaching.

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Profile – Dr Katie Meadmore, University of Southampton

05/10/2022

Dementia Researcher

Snr Research Fellow withing the National Institute for Health and Care Research, University of Southampton delivering Research on Research to inform improvement

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WHO Launches, A blueprint for dementia research

05/10/2022

Dementia Researcher

New WHO Report summarises the current state of research and identifies knowledge gaps, with 15 strategic goals, actions and timebound milestones to address them

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Yay to stipend rise, say UK postgrads — but don’t stop there

05/10/2022

Nature Careers Blog

Nature Careers reports PhD students call for further reforms after country’s largest research funder responds to campaigns with 10% increase.

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Profile – Dr Ola Thomson, University of Bristol

04/10/2022

Dementia Researcher

Ola works at the intersection of equality, diversity and inclusion in knowledge work careers, in and outside of academia with a background in Social Sciences

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Blog – Two–photon microscopy: How can it be used in Alzheimer’s research?

04/10/2022

Dr Beth Eyre

Blog from Beth Eyre, exploring how two-photon microscopy can be used to help us learn more about Alzheimer’s disease & inform research.