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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From Academia to Industry: A Lunchtime Conversation (Event and Livestream)

03/05/2019

Dementia Researcher

Are you exploring a potential career move to industry? Come and hear two scientists talk about their career pathway, their transition from academia to industry.

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Profile – Dr Sarah Bauermeister

03/05/2019

Dementia Researcher

Senior Researcher and Data Manager for Dementias Platform UK at the University of Oxford. Former barefoot runner, and now running to use data to beat dementia.

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Profile – Dr Hadi Modarres

03/05/2019

Dementia Researcher

Red (not blue) Kopite, and Data Scientist with Cognetivity. Bringing experience in engineering to the dementia challenge.

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Profile – Professor Richard Everson

03/05/2019

Dementia Researcher

Ultra Marathon Runner and Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Exeter, bringing machine learning to dementia data.

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Podcast – DPUK datathon and new frontiers in dementia

02/05/2019

Dementia Researcher

At Exeter’s DPUK datathon, Adam Smith explores how cohort data and machine learning are opening new ways to identify risk, improve diagnosis and beat dementia.

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Podcast – Young onset dementia and PhD life in Sydney

29/04/2019

Dementia Researcher

Adam Smith talks to Michelle Lai and Luisa Krein in Sydney about young onset dementia, PhD life, studying abroad, publishing pressure and work life balance.

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Guest Blog – Retaining research study participants

24/04/2019

Dr Anna Volkmer

New Blog from Anna Volkmer, talking about her experience of finding and retaining dementia research study participants.

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Profile – Michelle Lai

23/04/2019

Dementia Researcher

Research officer and PhD student at the University of Sydney, working in Young-onset dementia and fuelled by Australian sunshine and classic British comedy.

Careers

Networking for introverted scientists

23/04/2019

Dementia Researcher

Networking is a crucial skill for all scientists. Ruth Gotian offers tips for those who struggle to make it work, in this blog from Nature Careers.

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Blog – People with dementia are still able to engage in daily tasks – so let’s stop doing everything for them

18/04/2019

Dr Clarissa Giebel

Blog from Dr Clarissa Giebel, exploring the fine balance between caring, helping, empowering and disempowering people with living with dementia.

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Dealing with Rejection in Academia

17/04/2019

LSE Impact Blog

In this repost from the LSE Impact Blog, Staci Zavattaro, reflects on rejection in academia and gives 6 tips on how to manage the inevitable rejections that are part of academic life.

Dissemination, Science

Resetting Brain Rhythms Gives Working Memory a Brief Boost

16/04/2019

Alz Forum

Groups of neurons fire in sync with each other across the brain when it performs a task; however, with age, they fall out of step. Can an electrical current have a restorative effect?