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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.

Careers, Dissemination

How to write effectively for international journals

01/02/2019

Dementia Researcher

Blog from Nature Careers – Using modern tools to manage research literature, analyse published articles and find language teachers to improve manuscripts for publication.

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Profile – Dr Raffaele Ferrari

30/01/2019

Dementia Researcher

Working as a Junior Research Fellow; Research Associate at University College London looking at Genetics and Bioinformatics (As a sideline until he is recognised as a Rock Star)

Careers, Dissemination

How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists

29/01/2019

LSE Impact Blog

Jennifer Raff has prepared a helpful guide for non-scientists on how to read a scientific paper, for the LSE Impact Blog. Steps and tips useful to anyone interested in the presentation of scientific findings.

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Post Doctoral funding opportunities for non-medical clinicians

29/01/2019

Dementia Researcher

Catch-up on this webinar from the NIHR Academy – What’s new, what’s changed and how to be successful.

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Exploring the role of community hospitals & patient experience

28/01/2019

Dementia Researcher

A comprehensive profile and comparative analysis of the characteristics, patient experience and community value of the community hospital.

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Profile – Dr Claudia Manzoni

28/01/2019

Dementia Researcher

Associate Research Fellow at the University of Reading, analysing large scale genetic and proteomic data for FTD and Parkinson’s and always on the look out for a Jack Russel to pet!

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Erasmus+ funding available for EU internships

23/01/2019

Dementia Researcher

Thinking of undertaking an internship in the EU this summer? The Erasmus+ Traineeship Grant to help you with the costs associated with interning outside of the UK. Tanja Hann shares her experience of the programme.

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Scientific progress is built on failure

23/01/2019

Dementia Researcher

Learning to handle failure is just part of scientific life, writes Eileen Parkes for the Nature Careers Blog

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Neurofilament in Blood Foretells Early Onset Alzheimer’s

22/01/2019

Alz Forum

A paper published online on the 21st January in Nature Medicine finds that in familial Alzheimer’s disease, blood levels of neurofilament light (NfL) rise 16 years before the predicted age…

Dissemination

Building a culture of research impact

21/01/2019

LSE Impact Blog

Louise Shaxson writes for the LSE Impact Blog suggesting developing a culture of engagement and collaboration, is just as important to achieving research impact.