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Profile – Dr Clare Ellis-Smith, King’s College London

10/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

Dr Clare Ellis Smith is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London researching dementia palliative care and person centred outcomes for families and carers.

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The Hidden REF 26 is open & dementia research belongs in it

09/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

The Hidden REF 2026 is open. It celebrates the data, tools and people dementia research relies on but the REF overlooks. Entries close 13 Sept.

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Introducing the new Alzheimer’s Society awardees

09/06/2026

Alzheimer's Society

Alzheimer’s Society funds 17 new dementia research awards, supporting early career researchers across diagnosis, care, prevention and disease biology.

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Blog – Learning to Belong Somewhere New

09/06/2026

Dr Connor Richardson

Dr Connor Richardson swapped Newcastle for Edinburgh after almost ten years. He reflects on the excitement, the fear and learning to belong somewhere new.

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Profile – Dr Ingrid Ekström, Karolinska institutet

08/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

Dr Ingrid Ekström is Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet researching smell loss, brain health, dementia risk and cognitive ageing.

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Blog – Not a good advert for Dementia

08/06/2026

Bernie McInally

Bernie McInally reflects on brain donation calls, dementia identity and the sharp humour that reminds us every person remains individual.

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Blog – What My First Major NIHR Award Taught Me

04/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

Dr Maria Drummond got her first major NIHR award at a farm park, inbox in hand. Then came the conditions, and five months of not knowing.

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Pride Month: a few free courses, and a note on our own field

03/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

It’s Pride Month. Free OpenLearn courses on allyship and LGBTQ+ history, plus resources on LGBTQ+ people, dementia, and being out in research.

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Profile – Annika Dhawan, King’s College London

02/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

Annika Dhawan is a Research Assistant at King’s College London researching dementia, palliative care, caregiver wellbeing and support at home.

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Exploring Ageing through National Datasets

02/06/2026

National Centre for Research Methods

NCRM webinar recording shares three researchers on ageing, using national datasets to examine healthy ageing, pension protection and subjective age.

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Blog – If I Fall Behind, I’ll Fall Into Torpor

02/06/2026

Dementia Researcher

Dr Tatiana A. Giovannucci imagines a world where researchers must justify their work or face enforced hibernation. It is, quietly, about burnout.

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‘Virtual cells’ aim to turn raw data into predictive models of biology

02/06/2026

Nature Careers Blog

Simulations of biological systems could transform biomedical research, but researchers are still learning how to reproduce life’s complexity without drowning in data.