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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 – Neighbourhoods, Dementia & Co-Production in Action

02/12/2019

Dementia Researcher

Adam Smith talks to Dr Sarah Campbell, Prof Andrew Clark & Maria Walsh discussing their work puting their co-produced dementia research into action with zines.

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Blog – Creating Zines for the Neighbourhoods: Our People, Our Places Study

02/12/2019

Dementia Researcher

Domenique Brouwers shares how visual metaphors & co-creation with people living with dementia brought research stories to life in the Neighbourhoods study

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Profile – Domenique Brouwers

30/11/2019

Dementia Researcher

Domenique Brouwers is a Freelance Illustrator, helping to find creative ways to disseminate findings from the Neighbourhoods and Dementia study.

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Profile – Maria Walsh, The University of Manchester

29/11/2019

Dementia Researcher

Maria Walsh, co-researcher on the Neighbourhoods: Our People, Our Places study. Using her lived experience of dementia to make research and researcher better!

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Profile – Professor Andrew Clark, The University of Greenwich

28/11/2019

Dementia Researcher

Professor Andrew Clark is a social scientist interested in improving everyday life for older people in neighbourhoods and community settings

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Perfectionism, Failure and Finding My Worth in a PhD Mess

28/11/2019

Thesis Whisperer

Gabriella Wilson explores perfectionism, fear of failure, and finding worth beyond a PhD in this raw, relatable post for The Thesis Whisperer.

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Wellcome reports on attitudes towards research

25/11/2019

Wellcome Trust

This Wellcome report presents the results from the Wellcome Monitor, a study about public knowledge of and attitudes towards science and health research.

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Behind the Scenes of the DPUK Datathon

25/11/2019

Dementia Researcher

Two datathons in two weeks – autumn has certainly been busy for DPUK. Crossing the country to help a host of new dementia studies get off the ground.

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Beyond CRISPR: A New Editing Tool

20/11/2019

Nature Careers Blog

CRISPR wasn’t the answer for Xingxu Huang. Discover how base editors offer a more precise way to correct genetic mutations, one DNA letter at a time.

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Blog – Bridging Research and Empathy

19/11/2019

Ester Bellavia

Ester Bellavia, inspired by The Good Place & a chance meeting with Chris Roberts, this blog explores how trust and empathy reshape dementia research involvement

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Podcast – Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery

18/11/2019

Dementia Researcher

Academics & industry discuss the Dementia Consortium & drug discovery, from the basics of target validation to the question you always wanted to ask big pharma

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ARUK Deep Dementia Phenotyping (DEMON) Network

17/11/2019

Dementia Researcher

Join the DEMON Network: a new national initiative uniting AI experts, data scientists and clinicians to transform dementia research and care through innovation.