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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Podcast – Researchers using ‘Join Dementia Research’

18/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Adam Smith talks with Clare Shaw, Victoria Shepherd and Anne Marie Greenaway about how Join Dementia Research helps studies find volunteers.

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Profile – Dr Clare Shaw

14/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Join Dementia Research Delivery Manager, working for the National Institute for Health Research (after her family persuaded her to give up on the dream of a life in comedy)

Partner Blogs

Hope for a head start on dementia begins with cohort volunteers – DPUK

14/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

DPUK brought Marianne Talbot – a cohort participant, and Ivan – an old-age psychiatrist, together to discuss the bright prospects cohorts offer dementia research.

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Profile – Anne-Marie Greenaway

14/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Camel wrestler, mountain climber and early career researcher. Studying for a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, at the University of Reading, looking at dementia, depression and music (EEG correlates)

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Blog – Why to say YES to podcasts

14/03/2019

Yvette Vermeer

New Blog from Yvette Vermeer, talking about her experience of podcasting with the NIHR Dementia Researcher website. Would you like to talk about your work?

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Profile – Dr Keeley Brookes

14/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham working in Human Genetics and Genomics. Does her best work around ‘Twilight’.

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Lyrical Science: Raising Philanthropy for Basic Science Through Creative Communication

13/03/2019

Adam Smith

Lyrical Science helping early-career medical scientists pitch their research to philanthropists in an effort to unlock private sources of funding for the scientific community. Have your chance to pitch on the 1st June.

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Disease-in-a-dish studies open a window to a new level of detail in dementia

12/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Blog by Bryan Ng from University of Oxford, for Dementia Platforms UK. Working with patient-specific stem cells comparing experimental outcomes he’s observing with symptoms recorded in the clinics.

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New NIHR funding awards website

07/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

The website provides information about NIHR funding awards for research, career development, infrastructure and Global Health projects.

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Blog – The Thesis: Sitting on the edge of the precipice looking into the abyss

07/03/2019

Dr Anna Volkmer

New Blog from Anna Volkmer, sharing a few tips and hints that seemed small but have really helped her on route through her PhD.

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Profile – Dr Kirsty McAleese

06/03/2019

Dementia Researcher

Junior Research Fellow at Newcastle University working in Neuropathology, white matter damage in dementia and MRI-pathology correlates in dementia. Who can always find time for her favourite show on Bravo (can you guess which?)