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Dementia Researcher Blogs

Dementia Researcher

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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12:08

Anna Marie Rosická - 5 things I wish I knew before...

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2023/02/17

Anna Marie Rosická narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. The past 18 months have been adventurous for Anna Marie. From moving to a different country on her own, through the infamous “I-have-no-idea-what-I-am–doing” phase, to gradually becoming settled in her new researcher life with all its perks and peculiarities. Yes, you read that right – it has been something over a year since she started her research PhD. Anna Marie, like most who started a PhD knew it would be a learning

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05:50

Dr Sam Moxon - How to Navigate a Job Switch

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2023/02/15

Dr Sam Moxon, narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Sam started a new job this month. A new job that meant he left a place he had been at for 6 years, moved to a new city and ventured out into a totally new workplace. It’s quite a lot of change all at once but but did a great job of navigating it. With the challenge of short-term contracts, its easy to become desensitised to moving house in academia. You basically do it every year! But it got Sam thinking job changes and how best to

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10:56

Dr Gaia Brezzo - To cross or not to cross the picket...

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2023/02/14

Dr Gaia Brezzo narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Good researchers evaluate data from every angle. They explore cause and effect and untangle the tricky web that interconnects everyday phenomena. So it is easy to understand why Gaia has found it difficult to decide where she stands when it comes to the decision around if she should or shouldn't participate in the industrial action voted on by University & College Union members in a dispute with Universities over pensions, pay and

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05:33

Dr Connor Richardson - Am I in “Career Drift Mode?”

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2023/02/09

Dr Connor Richardson narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Career drift can happen when you proceed on your professional career course with no plan, or when a career strategy goes awry due to conditions beyond your control (like a pandemic.... or in academia... a lack of funding maybe?). It is easy to become reactive and stop being proactive career moves, taking the next job because it was offered (without building toward long-term goals) and now you feel stuck. Well, that's kind of how

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09:12

Dr Anna Volkmer - Writing a paper with lots of...

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2023/02/08

Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Success in academia if often measured in papers. And the best papers seem to be those with about a million authors on them. Writing anything down on paper seems daunting enough without having to share it with a bunch of others who are going to give their judgement (using the edit and comment function on word – which makes everything a horrifying red). And this is all before you even submit anything to the dreaded journal reviewers

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05:31

Dr Clarissa Giebel - Public Involvement & Engagement...

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2023/02/03

Dr Clarissa Giebel narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. You will have come across the term PPIE, or Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement. It is a given that we involve people affected by a condition, so for us, dementia, in our research design and development, conduct, and dissemination. And that is not restricted to dementia of course. PPIE needs to be embedded in any health and social care research, because how else do we know that we as researchers really address the issues

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05:44

Dr Aida Suárez-Gonzalez - Building positive...

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2023/02/01

Dr Aida Suárez-Gonzalez narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Aida has just been awarded UCL Global Engagement Funds (GEF) for a project to co-produce positive narratives about dementia. The GEF are an exciting seed funding scheme for all sorts of global engagement ideas. In Aida's project, she plans to partne with collaborators at Princeton University and the University of South Carolina. The aim being to co-create an Oliver Sack’s style book about people with posterior cortical

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06:54

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Peer Reviewing Grant Applications

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2023/01/30

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Kam was recently asked to peer review a grant by a major UK research funder. This was not something she had been asked to do before, and it made her realise the sheer number of tasks required of us in academia that we simply get zero training or guidance on. In this blog, Kamar pulls together her experience of grant peer reviewing and provides guidance that will hopefully be helpful to other new reviewers. Find the original text,

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08:02

Beth Eyre - Writing a fellowship application

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2023/01/24

Beth Eyre narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Not only is this the year I will Beth be finishing her PhD training, but this was also the year she had a go at writing her first ever fellowship application. Writing your first applicatoin can be a hard slog (which is probably why so many people take a gap year between PhD and Fellowship and explore a ready-made postdoc position). Beth says she is very lucky, because she has extremely helpful supervisors to provide lots of advice along

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08:49

Dr Yvonne Couch - Procrastination the Thief of Time

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2023/01/20

Dr Yvonne Couch, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Yvonne has recently been doing a lot of procrastinating, and not a lot of grant writing. In fact as she writes this, she should be either in the lab or writing a grant and yet she is not! Instead she is writing and narrating this blog. When talking to a friend about the challenge, they replied that they thought procrastination was often a response to trauma. Not big car crash, death of a loved one trauma. But trauma,

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04:15

Dr Clarissa Giebel - The value of academic travel and...

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2023/01/17

Dr Clarissa Giebel narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. It’s only taken 2.5 years for Clarissa to finally go out to Australia as part of her Wellcome Trust funding. There was a time when she thought it would never happen, but it finally became possible to connect in real life with some researchers she has worked with remotely on routine data in dementia care, and to meet a great number of brilliant minds over there. In this blog Clarissa talks about the trip and reflects on the

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08:09

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali blog - Why ECRs need good mentors

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2023/01/16

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Recent years have seen various mentoring schemes pop up in academia both within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and through organisations and charities. This has, in part, been in response to a changing landscape over the last decade or so, which has seen an increase in precarious contract-based employment for early career researchers (ECRs), resulting in many talented scientists leaving academia for better-paid secure

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07:27

Dr Diana Karamacoska - Fostering inclusivity in...

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2023/01/12

Dr Diana Karamacoska narrates her blog written for the ISTAART Partnering with Research Participants PIA, shared by Dementia Researcher (this blog has also been published in Spanish). People from culturally diverse backgrounds, particularly those that do not speak English, tend to be excluded from dementia research. This is a pressing issue considering the disparities associated with these populations accessing information about dementia, diagnostic support, interventions, and care services in

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11:25

Dr Diana Karamacoska - Fomentar la inclusión en la...

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2023/01/12

Gabriela Caballero narra un blog escrito por la Dra. Diana Karamacoska publicado en Dementia Researcher en nombre de ISTAART Partnering with Research Participants PIA (This blog has also been published in English). Las personas de orígenes culturalmente diversos, particularmente aquellas que no hablan inglés, tienden a ser excluidas de las investigaciones sobre la demencia. Este es un tema urgente considerando las disparidades asociadas con el acceso de estas poblaciones a información sobre la

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07:16

Hannah Hussain - Outcomes Matter

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2023/01/12

Hannah Hussain narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog Hannah discusses Health Outcomes. It is well known that some groups in the population have significantly poorer health outcomes and worse experiences of using health and care services than others. Overall, experts agree that the best health outcome following interaction with healthcare services or delivery of an intervention (or research intervention) should be one that the person recieving feels is the best - but how is

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05:30

Dr Megan Polden - Evaluation of Singing & Dancing...

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2023/01/11

Dr Megan Polden narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. In her first blog for Dementia Researcher, Megan writes about her passion for older peoples research and improving the lives of people living with dementia. We hear about the amazing work on her PhD, which explored the use of eyetracking technology as a biomarker, and now about the plans for her first postdoc position, evaluating and exploring the benefits of singing and dancing as a support for both careers and people living with

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03:41

Dr Victoria Shepherd - Advance planning for research...

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2023/01/10

Dr Victoria Shepherd narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Do you have experience of struggling to recruit people to your research study? Both Alzheimer’s Research UK and Alzheimers’ Society have highlighted the shockingly low participation in dementia research compared to other major health conditions. Recent announcements of a ‘national mission’ to tackle dementia and funding to strengthen capacity and capability in dementia research are, of course, very welcome. However, the barriers

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09:19

Dr Sam Moxon - My top tips for Veganuary

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2023/01/04

Dr Sam Moxon, narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. If you follow Sam's work with Dementia Researcher you may have stumbled upon his podcast series “Food for Thought”. It’s a show Sam sits down with medical doctors who specialise in treating their patients by complementing modern medicine with well-evidenced, beneficial diet and lifestyle choices. They talk about the best foods you can eat in order to keep your brain in the best possible shape and reduce your risk of developing

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06:55

Dr Gaia Brezzo - Reflections for 2022; another year...

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2023/01/03

Dr Gaia Brezzo narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. It’s from the comfort of her living room sofa that Gaia writes her final blog for 2022, cup of tea in hand and a purring cat on her lap as she taps away on the keyboard. This month, to round up 2022, Gaia decided to blog about what she has achieved – and not achieved – this year, as she reflects back on another year of her science and what – hopefully exiting stuff – 2023 could bring. Find the original text, and narration here on

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04:29

Adam Smith - New Year’s Resolutions

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2022/12/20

Adam Smith narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Are you making a resolution in the new year? Warning: More than half of all resolutions fail, but this year, they don’t have to be yours. Adam shares his simple resolutions and shares some top tips to become part of the small group of people that successfully achieve their goals. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-new-years-resolutions/ -- Adam Smith was born in

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