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Dementia Researcher Blogs
Dementia Researcher blogs are written and then narrated by the authors. Through this podcast channel, we share the narrations, so you can listen back where ever you get your podcasts, as well as on our website - careers, research and your science. Brought to you by www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk - everything you need, all in one place.
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Dementia Researcher BlogsHeather Wilkinson and Fauzia Knight - Collaborating Across Borders and Disciplines
Heather Wilkinson and Fauzia Knight narrate this blog written for Dementia Researcher. Researchers from King’s College London and the University of Edinburgh…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Becky Carlyle - Transforming People & Culture in a Low-Resource Environment
Dr Becky Carlyle narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Becky has taken on co-leadership of her department’s new People & Culture Committee at a…
Dementia Researcher BlogsFiona Hartley - Celebrating Scottish Research
Fiona Hartley narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Fiona Hartley cared for her mum, who had Alzheimer’s disease, and is now a member of Partners…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Yvonne Couch - Why Research Culture Needs More Than Good Intentions
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Research culture is a phrase that turns up in every strategy document, but what does it…
Dementia Researcher BlogsLesley Cousland - Care Home Research: Getting the Balance Right
Lesley Cousland narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. When eight research requests landed on care homes at around the same time, the team at…
Dementia Researcher BlogsRahul Sidhu & Prisha Sharma - From Research to Clinical
Rahul Sidhu & Prisha Sharma narrate this blog written for Dementia Researcher. What changes when you stop studying neurological disease through experiments and…
Dementia Researcher BlogsBeccy Owen - Beyond the Lab Bubble: Why PhD Teamwork Matters
Beccy Owen narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. PhD life can shrink to the size of a lab bench. In this blog Beccy describes two experiences that…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Connor Richardson - Does Rugby Cause Dementia? A Player-Epidemiologist's View
Dr Connor Richardson narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. An epidemiologist who still plays amateur rugby takes a hard look at the evidence…
Dementia Researcher BlogsBernie McInally - Pandas, dementia and why we need to reach Early Career Researchers
Bernie McInally narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. A panda study that leaves out every panda in a zoo would be laughed out of peer review. Yet…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie - When research becomes your reality: dementia and cancer
Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. What happens when the health conditions you study for a living arrive in your own…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Yvonne Couch - Understanding Changes to UKRI Funding Strategy
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. UKRI is changing how it assesses grants. The plans include fewer and longer awards…
Dementia Researcher BlogsEmily Spencer - From Dreading My Thesis to Loving Writing
Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Plenty of PhD students would say writing is the part they dread most, and Emily said exactly…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Clíona Farrell - Forty years of dementia progress; how many more to go?
Dr Clíona Farrell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. In 1986 Carol Jennings, a teacher from Coventry, answered an appeal in the Alzheimer's…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Becky Carlyle - How not to lose the plot when you lose a postdoc
Dr Becky Carlyle narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Every good lab trains people who then leave it, and in this blog Becky writes about what…
Dementia Researcher BlogsBeccy Owen - 10 Things My PhD Has Taught Me So Far
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…
Dementia Researcher BlogsJacqui Kerr - Returning to My Roots: Visiting a Memory Café
Jacqui Kerr narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Jacqui manages a research network. Most days that means teams, partnerships and delivery…
Dementia Researcher BlogsRahul Sidhu - My Grandad’s Story: Why I Became a Neuroscientist
Rahul Sidhu narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Rahul is a regular Dementia Researcher blogger, usually writing about life as a PhD student and…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Yvonne Couch - Brain Drain: The Controversy Around Glymphatics
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Yvonne got pulled into an accidental group chat argument with colleagues about whether the…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Emma Law - pTau217 Blood Test for Alzheimer's: What the FDA Clearance Means
Dr Emma Law narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. The FDA has cleared Roche's Elecsys pTau217 blood test to help identify amyloid pathology in…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Ajantha Abey - More Research Habits I Wish I'd Started Earlier in My PhD
Dr Ajantha Abey narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. In part one, Ajantha covered the practical lab-hacks: experiment numbering, file naming…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Connor Richardson - We're Still Not Counting LGBT People in Dementia Research
Dr Connor Richardson narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Connor works in dementia epidemiology, so when he wondered whether LGBT people face a…
Dementia Researcher BlogsProfessor Louise Serpell - Getting a Grant Funded: A View from the Panel
Professor Louise Serpell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. What does a grant panel member actually notice when they open your application?…
Dementia Researcher BlogsBeccy Owen - Giving Your First Seminar: What I Learned
Beccy Owen narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. What if the thing you've been dreading since day one of your PhD turns out to be the best week of…
Dementia Researcher BlogsHarriet Greene - The PhD Comfort Zone
Harriet Greene narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Eighteen months into a PhD, everything clicks. The experiments run themselves, the walk to…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Emma Law - GCP Training: Do We Really Need Regular Refreshers?
Dr Emma Law narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Every two years, Emma has to sit her GCP update. Every two years she wonders whether it is…
Dementia Researcher BlogsProfessor Frank Gunn-Moore - An Academic career, then and now
Professor Frank Gunn-Moore narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Forty years of a research career, told through the three gambles that shaped it…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Becky Carlyle - Building Labs Where It's Safe to Fail
Dr Becky Carlyle narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Failure in academia gets treated here as a structural problem before it gets treated as a…
Dementia Researcher BlogsEmma & Sue Williams - A what? A Public Advisor Researcher? You may well ask…
Emma Williams and Sue Williams discuss their work. Emma and Sue have a job title that stops conversations. Public Advisor Researcher. They did not know what it…
Dementia Researcher BlogsEmily Spencer - Overcoming Academic Conference Presentation Anxiety
Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. With her her viva date set and every working hour going into her thesis, Emily has also just…
Dementia Researcher BlogsAdam Smith - Good Research Still Needs an Audience
Adam Smith narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Publishing the paper is not the finish line, it is where the work of being read actually starts…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Yvonne Couch - Pedagogy For Gen Z
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Do we actually need to teach Gen Z differently, or do they just need to grow up a bit?…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Lindsey Sinclair - What Sport Can Teach Science
Dr Lindsey Sinclair narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Is time invested in something really time wasted if you don't win? A comment overheard…
Dementia Researcher BlogsRahul Sidhu - Weightlifting and Creatine on Brain Health
Rahul Sidhu narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Does lifting weights actually protect your brain, and is creatine the brain supplement the gym…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Ajantha Abey - Research Habits I Wish I’d Started Earlier in My PhD
Dr Ajantha Abey narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. There are already about a thousand blogs telling you to pace yourself and embrace failure…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Clíona Farrell - An Alzheimer’s Cabaret
Dr Clíona Farrell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. After a long week at AAIC in London, Clíona swapped the conference hall for the Bloomsbury…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Connor Richardson - Small Vessel Disease: A Quiet Driver of Dementia
Dr Connor Richardson narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Ask most people what causes dementia, and they will reach for amyloid and tau. But…
Dementia Researcher BlogsProfessor Louise Serpell - Football, CTE and the Science Protecting Future Players
Professor Louise Serpell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. As excitement builds around the 2026 World Cup final, Louise examines the darker…
Dementia Researcher BlogsBeccy Owen - When Experiments Fail: Staying Positive in Research
Beccy Owen narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Every researcher knows the sinking feeling of an experiment failing after days, weeks or months…
Dementia Researcher BlogsHarriet Greene - How I Found My Way into Dementia Research: Give to Gain
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…
Dementia Researcher BlogsProfessor Frank Gunn-Moore: Do Cats, Dogs and Dolphins Get Dementia Too?
Professor Frank Gunn-Moore narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog, Frank asks whether dementia is really unique to humans. Starting…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Sam Moxon - Why Some Ideas Never Get a Chance
Dr Sam Moxon narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. You develop something genuinely different, cost it, build the team, submit it feeling…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Becky Carlyle - How I Started My Own Lecture Course
Dr Becky Carlyle narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog, Becky reflects on creating a new lecture course for second year biomedical…
Dementia Researcher BlogsBrandon Newman - Why data matters in human-centred dementia care
Brandon Newman narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this guest blog, Brandon Newman uses his experience as a paramedic to show how dementia…
Dementia Researcher BlogsRahul Sidhu - Sleep and Dementia: Should We Worry?
Rahul Sidhu narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Rahul explores the relationship between sleep and dementia, asking whether a few poor nights…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Yvonne Couch - Academia and the Sense of Self
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog, Yvonne reflects on why academia can become so tightly bound to identity…
Dementia Researcher BlogsProfessor Louise Serpell - What's in a name? Amyloid, Amyloid-beta, Beta Amyloid, Amy-Lloyd
Professor Louise Serpell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Amyloid is one of the most used words in Alzheimer's research, and Louise thinks we…
Dementia Researcher BlogsBernie McInally - Not a good advert for Dementia
Bernie McInally narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog, Bernie reflects on his work supporting the Scottish Dementia Brain Tissue…
Dementia Researcher BlogsEmily Spencer - The Hidden Work of Finishing a PhD
Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog, Emily reflects on being around four months from her planned PhD submission date…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Connor Richardson - Learning to Belong Somewhere New
Dr Connor Richardson narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. What is it actually like to start over somewhere new? After nearly a decade at…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Maria Drummond - What My First Major NIHR Award Taught Me
Dr Maria Drummond narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. There is a stage most researchers never write about: the stretch between a positive…
Dementia Researcher BlogsThe Report, Out Loud: Listening to Early Career Researchers
This episode works through Listening to Early Career Researchers, the 2022 survey report from UCL and ISTAART PEERs. It captured the views of early career…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Tatiana A. Giovannucci - If I Fall Behind, I'll Fall Into Torpor
Dr Tatiana A. Giovannucc narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Tatiana's blog is not what you might expect. It is a speculative fiction, set in a…
Dementia Researcher BlogsBeccy Owen - The Trials and Tribulations of Electrophysiology
Beccy Owen narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Electrophysiology has taken up roughly 80% of Beccy's thoughts this past year, so she has written…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Sam Moxon - Unexpected Things Dementia Teaches us About Time
Dr Sam Moxon narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. We tend to picture dementia as a slow decline measured in months and years, tracked through…
Dementia Researcher BlogsRahul Sidhu - Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
Rahul Sidhu narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Rahul used to dread public speaking more than data analysis or academic scrutiny. A few years…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Clíona Farrell - It’s getting (too) hot in here; the climate crisis and brain health
Dr Clíona Farrell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Clíona writes from this year's Hot Brain conference, an annual meeting hosted by UCL Queen…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Yvonne Couch - The Contradictions & Challenges of the Junior PI
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Yvonne reflects on the contradiction at the heart of being a junior PI: you are expected to…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Toby Williamson - Finding values in research and dementia
Dr Toby Williamson narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog, Toby explores how values shape dementia research, even when we tell…
Dementia Researcher BlogsDr Becky Carlyle - Building accessible and inclusive research environments
Dr Becky Carlyle narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog, Becky writes up what she took from a panel of disabled researchers hosted by…
Dementia Researcher BlogsEmily Spencer - Life After the PhD: My Fellowship Application
Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. With less than five months of PhD funding left, Emily found herself doing the opposite of what…