Dementia Researcher Blogs4 Apr 2025

Dr Becky Carlyle - Choose your Mentors

Dr Becky Carlyle, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website.

This time Becky's blog addresses the complex but essential role of mentorship in career and leadership development, particularly within academia. She underscores the importance of selecting mentors suited to specific professional needs, such as grant writing, overcoming imposter syndrome, or navigating career transitions. Becky advocates for clear, goal-oriented mentoring relationships and highlights the significant benefits of peer mentoring. She shares personal experiences of impactful mentorship, emphasising the value of both formal and informal mentoring arrangements in fostering career progression and personal well-being.

Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-choose-your-mentors/
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Dr Becky Carlyle is an Alzheimer's Research UK Senior Research Fellow at University of Oxford, and has previously worked in the USA. Becky writes about her experiences of starting up a research lab and progressing into a more senior research role. Becky's research uses mass-spectrometry to quantify thousands of proteins in the brains and biofluids of people with dementia. Her lab is working on various projects, including work to compare brain tissue from people with dementia from Alzheimer’s Disease, to tissue from people who have similar levels of Alzheimer’s Disease pathology but no memory problems. Becky is also a mum, she runs, drinks herbal tea's and reads lots of books. Find Becky on LinkedIn

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