Dr Jodi Watt - The Naked Truth About My Academic Confidence

Dr Jodi Watt - The Naked Truth About My Academic Confidence

Dr Jodi Watt, narrating a new blog they wrote for the Dementia Researcher website.

In this blog Jodi Dr Jodi Watt explores their journey to overcome academic insecurities. Often speaking quickly during presentations due to nerves, they find an unconventional confidence booster: life modelling. They suggest that the key to academic confidence may lie outside the academic realm, challenging the traditional notion that it can be built solely through professional strategies.

Find the original text, and narration here on our website.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-the-naked-truth-about-my-academic-confidence/

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Dr Jodi Watt is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Glasgow. Jodi's academic interests are in both healthy ageing and neurodegenerative diseases of older age, and they are currently working on drug repurposing for dementia. Previously they worked on understanding structural, metabolic and physiological brain changes with age, as measured using magnetic resonance imaging. As a queer and neurodiverse person, Jodi is also incredibly interested in improving diversity and inclusion practices both within and outside of the academic context.

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This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support.

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