Beccy Owen - 10 Things My PhD Has Taught Me So Far

Dementia Researcher Blogs · Sep 16, 2026 · 8m

Beccy Owne narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Beccy, a PhD student at the University of Warwick studying how tau disrupts ion channels in Alzheimer's disease, is nearly halfway through her PhD and looks back at what it has taught her away from the bench. She explains why research runs on a much longer clock than undergraduate or master's projects, why not knowing the answer is the whole point, and how a flash talk given two weeks into her studies changed how she handles new challenges in and out of the lab. She also covers keeping work and home separate, learning by doing…