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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Podcast – Royal Society Pairing Scheme – Insights from Westminster

22/08/2022

Dementia Researcher

Dr Fiona McLean talks with Dr Sarah Marzi and Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly sharing their insights from participating in the Royal Society Pairing Scheme.

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Blog – How academic misconduct affects ECRs

19/08/2022

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali

Academic misconduct damages public confidence in research, but how does it affect ECRs? in this blog Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali explores

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Profile – Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly, Cardiff University

19/08/2022

Dementia Researcher

UKRI Future Leader Fellow and UK Dementia Research Institute Group Leader exploring Parkinson’s disease and the role synaptic dysfunction.

Partner Blogs

A tool for navigating your research career

18/08/2022

LSE Impact Blog

New tool to help map your activities exposing where activity is clustered, supporting you to be strategic and selective in what you take on to support your career priorities and goals.

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Blog – Study Pre-registration: Say it, do it, share it.

17/08/2022

Dr Anna Volkmer

Future-proof your research and Preregister your next study. In this blog Dr Anna Volkmer will explain why and the benefits.

Partner Blogs

Bullied abroad: how foreign researchers can fight back

16/08/2022

Nature Careers Blog

Most international scholars do not report experiences of bullying because they fear retaliation. But they can take action learn how from Nic Fleming

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Blog – Positionality and reflexivity, and why it’s not just for qualitative research

15/08/2022

Nathan Stephens

Nathan Stephens gets his head around positionality and reflexivity, two important essential concepts in qualitiative research

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Exploring gender composition of dementia researchers at different stages

11/08/2022

Dementia Researcher

New Alzheimer’s Research UK analysis published in AMRC Open Research this week explores gender disparities in dementia researcher careers

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Experiences of Racism Associated with Poor Memory, Increased Cognitive Decline

10/08/2022

Alzheimer's Association

Experiences of racism are associated with lower memory scores & worse cognition in midlife, in old age, and especially among Black people

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Persistent Loss of Smell Due to COVID-19 Closely Connected to Long-Lasting Cognitive Problems

10/08/2022

Alzheimer's Association

Persistent loss of smell may be a better predictor of long-term cognitive and functional impairment than severity of the initial COVID-19 infection

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Profile – Dr Natasha Clarke, Universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal

10/08/2022

Dementia Researcher

Postdoctoral Research Associate who navigated her way from London to Montréal to research brain functional connectivity as a biomarker of Alzheimer’s

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Profile – Dr Richard Lofthouse, University of Aberdeen

10/08/2022

Dementia Researcher

Country music loving, antibody engineer at the University of Aberdeen currently working on the development of new antibodies against Tau protein