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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Using health and social care datasets in research

11/12/2020

NIHR

Catch-up on what you missed in the recent ‘Using health and social care datasets in research – opportunities, assets, and examples’, from NIHR, HDR UK, MRC

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Alzheimer Europe future vision of EU dementia policy

10/12/2020

Dementia Researcher

At an online European Parliament workshop hosted by Sirpa Pietikäinen, MEP (Finland), Alzheimer Europe launched a new report “Dementia as a European Priority – A Policy Overview”

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Blog – Beth Eyre introductions and discovering science

10/12/2020

Dr Beth Eyre

In her first blog for Dementia Researcher, Beth Eyre introduces herself and brings us up to date on the last 10 years, what brought her to science, and where we now find her as a 2nd year PhD Student at The University of Sheffield researching Neurovascular and cognitive function in preclinical models of AD.

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Catch-up – Bob & Diane Fund and visual story telling

09/12/2020

Dementia Researcher

In this webinar Gina Martin, Founders and Director of the Bob and Diane Fund discusses her work and the importance and value of visual story telling in dementia

Science

Biomarkers of Errant Endosome Spotted in Cerebrospinal Fluid

09/12/2020

Alz Forum

Does jammed-up protein recycling in neurons cause proteins to spill into the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease? Article from the Alz Forum

Careers, Partner Blogs

How to write a literature review

08/12/2020

Nature Careers Blog

Nature speaks to old hands and first timers about the work they did to make their reviews sing, essential reading before you start a lit review.

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Blog – Clinical Academic Roles in nursing, do they exist?

07/12/2020

Dr Emily Jones

Dr Emily Oliver. looks back on what she has been doing since completing her Clinical Academic Doctoral Programme 12 months ago, and what opportunities exist after you finish.

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Blog – Job Hunting in a Pandemic

04/12/2020

Dr Sam Moxon

Dr Sam Moxon from The University of Manchester has joined our regular bloggers. Sam is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in 3D bioprinting to engineer better models of the human brain. In his first blog he talks about the challenges of job searching during the pandemic.

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Maintaining mobility and preventing disability

03/12/2020

Dementia Researcher

Researchers are identifying risk factors for physical disability and developing ways to prevent or reverse loss of mobility to maintain independence.

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Should supervisors be training PhD students on impact?

03/12/2020

LSE Impact Blog

PhD candidates need to be able to communicate their research to diverse audiences and be prepared for careers outside of Higher Education.

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Outstanding questions in dementia research

03/12/2020

UK DRI

See Professor Bart De Strooper, Professor Karen Duff, Professor John Hardy and Professor Giovanna Mallucci exploring outstanding questions in dementia research

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A Gateway from Health Data to Health Discovery

01/12/2020

Dementia Researcher

The Health Data Research Innovation Gateway provides a common entry point to discover and enquire about access to UK health datasets for research and innovation