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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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Profile – Dr Carol Routledge

17/02/2020

Dementia Researcher

Director of Research at Alzheimer’s Research UK leading the research strategy, both preclinical and clinical, across the charity for response-mode funding, strategic funding and global projects.

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Podcast – Alzheimer’s Research UK DEMON Network

17/02/2020

Dementia Researcher

Professor David Llewellyn from the University of Exeter and Dr Carol Routledge, Alzheimer’s Research UK. Discuss the Deep Dementia Phenotyping (DEMON) Network

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Profile – Piers Kotting

14/02/2020

Dementia Researcher

Piers Kotting is Chief Executive of Rare Cancer Support, with a background in developing the capacity and infrastructure essential to deliver dementia research.

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Three-quarters of researchers say yes to meeting-free weeks

13/02/2020

Nature Careers Blog

Respondents to a Nature poll largely agree that meeting free weeks… would be practical, read to reveal how much time it would save them.

Dissemination, Science

Alzforum’s Dataset of APP Mutations Gets a Makeover

11/02/2020

Alz Forum

The notorious amyloid precursor protein, central to Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis, sports a new look on Alzforum’s Mutations database – open access

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Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Experience Toolkit

10/02/2020

Alzheimer's Society

Find out how to measure the experience of people with dementia when commissioning, improving or creating new services & products

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Improving UK research culture

07/02/2020

Dementia Researcher

Results of a survey published by Wellcome Trust, have revealed high levels of stress and insecurity. You can help inform plans to how this should be improved.

Careers, Partner Blogs

Top tips for getting your science out there

04/02/2020

Nature Careers Blog

Craig Cormick explains how scientists can get their arguments across to members of the public in this post shared from the Nature Careers Blog site.

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Podcast – Illness perceptions & service use in dementia

03/02/2020

Dementia Researcher

Jane Gregg and Dr Josie Jenkinson discuss their work on understanding how people with dementia perceive themselves and their future after dementia diagnosis