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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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)

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Blog – National Dementia Strategies across Europe – who has one?

19/03/2019

Dr Clarissa Giebel

Blog from Dr Clarissa Giebel, what can countries learn from each other? Discussing National Dementia Strategies from across Europe

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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.