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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Blog – A little bit of Conversation Analysis

01/12/2020

Dr Anna Volkmer

Dr Anna Volkmer talks to the value of conversation analysis, as a tool for life, not just for dementia – read or hear Anna read her own words.

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Final EPAD dataset now available

30/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

This week The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia project announced the external release of its final dataset – with free open access.

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Podcast – Finding your PhD Feet

30/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

PhD Students who are at the very first stages of their expedition discuss how they’re finding a way to settle in, and sharing what they have learned so far.

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Profile – Felicity Slocombe

28/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

Proud Northerner and PhD Student at Loughborough University using conversation analysis to examine interactions about identity between health care practitioners and people living with dementia.

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Profile – Dr Tiffeny James

27/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

Researcher in the Policy Institute at King’s College London, and former PhD Student at UCL, striving for equitable care for people affected by dementia

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Profile – Brendan Commane

27/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

PhD Student at the Royal College of Art, London. Researching the Environment in care homes and how Art can improve the lives of people living with dementia

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The career costs of COVID: Postdocs & PhD paying the price

27/11/2020

Nature Careers Blog

Closed labs and rescinded job offers have snatched away opportunities. How can science bounce back? Julie Gould finds out for Nature Careers.

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Profile – Chloe Tulip

26/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

Roller skating and crafting through lockdown and working for her PhD at Swansea University, researching sleep and dementia.

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Blog – Lab Reasearchers guide to PPI

26/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Katy Stubbs highlights how and why Lab-based researchers and can engage the public in their work, and how both will benefit.

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Plasma Aβ Test Wins Approval—Are p-Tau Tests Far Behind?

25/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

To find out what is going on in the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, all it takes is a drop of blood. Catch-up in this article from the Alz Forum

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Catch-up – Neuronal vulnerability in Lewy Body Dementia by Dr Daniel Erskine

25/11/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Daniel Erskine presents his research from post-mortem studies to understand why Lewy bodies form, relevance to cell health & role in Lewy body dementia

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Blog – A few thoughts on peer review

24/11/2020

Adam Smith

Today, Morgan Daniel takes (or took, depending on when you’re reading this) over the Dementia Researcher Twitter account. Sharing her day to inspire others thinking of following this path, and taking your questions. Could that also be the right path for you?