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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.

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Ava’s PhD Experience at UCL

14/08/2024

Dementia Researcher

Meet Dr Ava Mason, and her great YouTube Channel. Ava has been documenting her journey from undergrad, through to PhD and now as a trainee clinical psychologist

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Blog – Research Like an Olympian

12/08/2024

Adam Smith

Boost your research like an Olympian! Embrace performance coaching to enhance well-being, resilience, and productivity in dementia research. Get on the podium!

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Profile – Dr Barbora Silarova, University of Kent

12/08/2024

Dementia Researcher

NIHR ARC / Alzheimer’s Society Dem Comm Research Fellow at University of Kentworking on research to support the physical and mental wellbeing of unpaid carers.

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Blog – Resilience

08/08/2024

Dr Yvonne Couch

Dr Yvonne Couch’s charts a journey on resilience in academia. Learn how to navigate challenges and build resilience while avoiding toxic positivity.

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Memory Services Spotlight Audit 2023

08/08/2024

Dementia Researcher

The 2023 National Audit of Dementia Memory Services reveals rising wait times, service inconsistencies, and urgent needs for equitable dementia care and support

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Blog – A reflection of my year in an Oxford Lab

07/08/2024

Yasmin Bonsu

Yasmin Bonsu’s shares her journey in an Oxford Lab, reflecting on personal growth, impactful research, and the importance of diversity in science

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AAIC 2024 Highlights – Video Podcasts

07/08/2024

Dementia Researcher

Catch-up on our AAIC 2024 highlights video podcasts. Four shows and sixteen researchers joined us across the week to share their favourite moments and insights

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Novel sequencing approaches highlight role of brain gene activity in Alzheimer’s

06/08/2024

Dementia Researcher

Research reveals that the activity of different versions of genes expressed in the brain is associated with the accumulation of tau, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s

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Profile – Dr Eddy Roccati, University of Tasmania

02/08/2024

Dementia Researcher

Post-doctoral Research Fellow at University of Tasmania leading a large-scale longitudinal cohort study called the ISLAND Study.

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Profile – Dr Sarah Faber, Simon Fraser University

02/08/2024

Dementia Researcher

Postdoctoral Research Fellow using computational modelling to study how the brain adapts to age and neurodegeneration using music.

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Blog – Challenges of Dementia Care for Ethnic Minorities in the UK

02/08/2024

Hannah Hussain

In this blog Hannah Hussain writes about the unique challenges diverse communities face in UK dementia care and why we need inclusive solutions.

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Podcast – AAIC 2024 – Day Four

01/08/2024

Dementia Researcher

We’ve reached the end of this years AAIC, and to close out our highlights podcast are Quang Tran, Dr Shea Andrews, Dr Joe Butler and Roberto A. Guzmán Hernández