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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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Profile – Dr Brady McFarlane, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

21/09/2022

Dementia Researcher

Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, Clinical Researcher and Dementia Specialty Lead NIHR CRN Wessex based at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Careers

How to gain a competitive edge in grant writing

21/09/2022

Nature Careers Blog

Nature Careers three step approach to turning transforming a grant application library into a meaningful grant-writing aid.

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Profile – Dr Kasey Belanger-Mayer, Albany Medical College

20/09/2022

Dementia Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher investigating the functional impact of Alzheimer’s Disease risk genes on neuro-vascular interactions.

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Blog – Angiogenesis

20/09/2022

Dr Yvonne Couch

New blog from Dr Yvonne Couch providing a history of angiogenesis, and how after brain injury and in old age this may contribute to brain health.

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Profile – Dr Antoinette O’Connor, University College London

17/09/2022

Dementia Researcher

Active Researcher and Neurology Specialist Registrar at University College London, interested in Young onset and genetic forms of dementia

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Blog – Dr Gaia Brezzo Introduction

16/09/2022

Dr Gaia Brezzo

We welcome Dr Gaia Brezzo, Research Fellow at the UK Dementia Research Institute to our team of regular bloggers learn more about her and plans for her blog

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Blog – From postdoc to lecturer, my first six months

15/09/2022

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali

Six months ago Kamar started a new position as lecturer in biomedical science in this blog, she shares her experience of the first six months of lectureship.

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Methods Matter Podcast – Surveys & Questionnaires

12/09/2022

Dementia Researcher

In this podcast Dr Donncha Mullin talks with methods expert Dr Petra Boynton and Island Study Researcher Dr Larissa Bartlett discussing theory and practice.

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Methods Matter Podcast – Focus Groups

12/09/2022

Dementia Researcher

Tops tips on collecting data through group interaction, in the fourth episode of our Methods Matter Podcast with NCRM with special guest Nadine Mirza

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Methods Matter Podcast – Visual and Creative Methods

12/09/2022

Dementia Researcher

The third show in this series covers Visual and Creative Methods, a relativley new method in qualitative research but increasingly used in dementia research.