Dr 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, especially in careers where work has no clear e...
16 Jun 9min
Professor 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 have got into the habit of using it too l...
15 Jun 4min
Bernie 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 Bank, using a telephone cognitive assessment t...
11 Jun 8min
Emily 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, and the amount of work still sitting bene...
11 Jun 6min
Dr 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 Newcastle, where he did his undergraduate degree r...
9 Jun 5min
Dr 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 funding decision and actually getting started. T...
4 Jun 5min
The 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 researchers across the world.Work is currentl...
3 Jun 23min
Dr 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 near future where AI-driven energy demands...
2 Jun 8min
