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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Profile – Professor Rosemary Varley

29/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Professor of Acquired Language Disorders, working on language disorders in post-stroke aphasia and dementia; and the role of language in non-verbal cognition.

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Don’t let your academic career determine your every move

27/03/2019

LSE Impact Blog

Should early career researchers be expected to relocate regularly in order to land a permanent job? In this post for the LSE Impact Blog, Eva Krockow weighs the benefits of an international career against the costs of constant mobility.

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Profile – Dr Cathy Taylor-Rubin

27/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Emerging from the Bogeyhole each week, to work as a Researcher and Speech Pathologist at Macquarie University, Sydney looking at Primary Progressive Aphasia

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Calling all PhD students and postdocs – Could you host summer student?

26/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Want to make a difference and support a young person from disadvantaged backgrounds gain an insight into research?

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Profile – Luisa Krein

26/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Working as a Speech and Language Therapist and Studying for PhD at the University of Sydney. Horseback yoga proved to be too dangerous!

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Six easy ways to manage your time better

26/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

The amount and quality of what you achieve are crucially dependent on how effectively you manage your time. Andrew C. Johnson and John Sumpter propose some simple steps that scientists can take to improve their time management in this blog for Nature Careers.

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Blog – Dissemination: Building up to a podcast

25/03/2019

Dr Anna Volkmer

Anna Volkmer, talks about her experience of podcasting with Dementia Researcher. How could podcasting help you reach more people?

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Blog – Early career reflections on writing grant applications

22/03/2019

Holly Walton

Dr Holly Walton shares ten practical lessons for first-time grant writers, from finding the right funder to planning clearly and allowing time for feedback.

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Podcast – Alzheimer’s Research UK Conference 2019

20/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Katy Stubbs and guests share highlights from Alzheimer’s Research UK Conference in Harrogate, bringing key themes and fresh ideas from across the meeting.

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Profile – Dr Chris Henstridge, University of Dundee

20/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Principal Investigator researching synaptic pathology in health and disease. with many collaborations in psychology, neuropathology, neuroimaging, and genetics

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Profile – Dr Christina Toomey

20/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Post-doctoral Research Associate at University College London and The Francis Crick Institute researching Neuropathology and Neuroinflammation and teaching MSc and PhD Students (also known as Brown Owl)