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.
Dr Yvonne Couch explores how competition shapes science from tenure debates and prestige effects to pressures on early career researchers.
Dr Jodi Watt signs off from Dementia Researcher, reflecting on job precarity, belonging, and her next steps as she moves into a new research support role.
The new open access Journal of Brain Health launches to advance global brain health research with a focus on equity, inclusion, and collaboration.
Dr Inga Antonsdottir is a Nurse Practitioner and Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins researching sleep, circadian rhythms, and Alzheimer’s prevention.
Dr Anna Volkmer talks with Dr Alys Griffiths, Sophie Jeffery, and Esther Whittlesea Reed about psychotherapy’s role in supporting people living with dementia.
Video games meet dementia research. Rebecca Williams explores how gamified task design could transform data quality, engagement, and ecological validity.
A young academic in China worries that the grant-application lottery is wasted effort – new post shared from the Nature Careers blog
Love Onwuzuruike, PhD student at University of Bristol exploring how membrane composition affects serotonin receptor signalling in dementia drug discovery.
Marian Montanha on why every dementia diagnosis should include research as an option for patients and families, offering hope and informed choice.
Dr Tom Russ, Reader in Old Age Psychiatry at The University of Edinburgh, researches clinical and interdisciplinary dementia. Loves Esperanto.
Kindness matters in research. Dr Lindsey Sinclair explores how small acts of empathy can improve academic culture, wellbeing, and collaboration.
Esther Whittlesea Reed, carer and Alzheimer’s Society funded lived experience contributor, shares insights from supporting a young family through dementia.
Dr Yvonne Couch
Dr Jodi Watt
Dementia Researcher
Rebecca Williams
Nature Careers Blog
Dr Lindsey Sinclair