Harriet Greene - How I Found My Way into Dementia Research: Give to Gain

Dementia Researcher Blogs · Jul 9, 2026 · 8m

Harriet Greene narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Harriet wrote her first essay on Alzheimer's at 15. What followed was not a tidy line to Oxford. She missed medicine by one mark, took her insurance place in Neuroscience at Queen Mary, topped her cohort's dissertation grades, then packed a backpack for a tiny island off Bali to learn to dive. A broken arm in Australia sent her home, a summer as a divemaster in Corfu taught her more than she expected, and somewhere between the dive boat and the papers she kept reading, she realised she missed science. In her first blog for…