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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Cars and scientists Interview with Professor Bill Jagust

07/02/2023

Dementia Researcher

Ross Paterson & Michael Schöll two UCL Researchers are behind ‘Cars & Scientists’, a new YouTube show they chat to Prof Bill Jagust in a classic Mustang

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Podcast – Researching Inequalities in Dementia Care

06/02/2023

Dementia Researcher

Researchers from University of Liverpool, Dr Clarissa Giebel, James Watson, Laura Prato & Thais Caprioli discuss work on health inequalities in dementia care

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Blog – Public Involvement & Engagement in Research

03/02/2023

Dr Clarissa Giebel

Tips from an expert! Dr Clarissa Giebel shares some simple and easy to follow pointers to deliver good Patient & Public Involvement in your research.

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Did Dementia Patient Care Go Downhill During the Pandemic?

02/02/2023

Alz Forum

New research reports that dementia patients in six countries were more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics during the 2020 lockdowns than before.

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Blog – Building positive narratives about dementia

01/02/2023

Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez

Exciting news… Dr Aida Suárez-Gonzalez was awarded UCL Global Engagement Funds to co-produce positive narratives about dementia – find out more in her blog.

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Profile – Laura Prato, University of Liverpool

31/01/2023

Dementia Researcher

Research Associate with a background in Nursing, researching the experiences of people living with dementia and carers during hospital admission and discharge.

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3+ concussions linked to worse brain function in later life

31/01/2023

Dementia Researcher

Experiencing three or more concussions is linked with worsened brain function in later life, according to research published today in the Journal of Neurotrauma

Partner Blogs

A call to create funding equity for researcher-mums

30/01/2023

Nature Careers Blog

Mothers in academic research and those who support them say in a report that the funding system can and should remedy gender bias in the sciences.

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New Guidelines from Alzheimer Europe

30/01/2023

Dementia Researcher

Alzheimer Europe has published three new publications, looking at employment and social protection, at sex, gender and sexuality and at ethical communication

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Blog – Peer Reviewing Grant Applications

30/01/2023

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali recently had her first experience as a grant reviewer (no pressure). In this blog she shares her experience, to help new reviewers.