Dr Yvonne Couch - The Curse of the Three-Year Fellowship

Dr Yvonne Couch, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website.

This is going to be an advice column for those of you currently applying or considering applying for fellowships. Pre-warning, Yvonne was having a bad day whilst writing this so it’s going to be grumpy.

There’s a springboard award which she was considering writing this week. So writing this blog probably wasn't the best use of her time... She should be thinking of ideas and reading papers. Because, as it turns out from almost everyone Yvonne talks to, says that she writes a pretty good grant. She knows how to structure it, how to highlight her ideas. She even managed to get fairly far through Wellcome and MRC with little to no input from senior scientists. So we know that Yvonne writes well, and quickly... but currently she isn't doing either. What she is currently doing is doom-consuming pastry and staring at a blank Word document. Actually, it’s not blank. It contains the following crushing phrase:

End date of current contract (must be after the end date of the proposed 2-year springboard project).. which is a problem!

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https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-the-curse-of-the-three-year-fellowship/

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Dr Yvonne Couch is an Alzheimer's Research UK Fellow at the University of Oxford. Yvonne studies the role of extracellular vesicles and their role in changing the function of the vasculature after stroke, aiming to discover why the prevalence of dementia after stroke is three times higher than the average. It is her passion for problem solving and love of science that drives her, in advancing our knowledge of disease. Yvonne has joined the team of staff bloggers at Dementia Researcher, and will be writing about her work and life as she takes a new road into independent research.

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