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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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05:31

Dr Sam Moxon - The Importance of Public Trust in Science

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2022/08/31

Dr Sam Moxon, narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Alzheimer’s research made the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. News broke pertaining to significant evidence that a high profile researcher may have falsified years of data surrounding the role of amyloid oligomers in AD. Alzheimer’s Research UK have provided a great digest on what this all means and the potential implications which you can read via this link. In this blog Sam explores the aftermath of the story, and how

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04:33

Dr Clarissa Giebel - From remote to face-to-face...

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2022/08/30

Dr Clarissa Giebel narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. After nearly two years of remote working with Colombian collaborators in Medellin, Clarissa was finally able to set foot into the country and understand the local complexities that affect older adults. In this blog Clarissa talks about her visit and touches on what she discovered, and why remote working sometimes just can't provide the insights you get from being there in person, face-to-face. Find the original text, and narration

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10:22

Dr Yvonne Couch - The Great Academic Resignation

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2022/08/26

Dr Yvonne Couch, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Search ‘Academic quit lit’ and you’ll find tales of disillusionment, pages of personal accounts posted on blogs, social media, or websites. Stories of precarious careers, bureaucracy, barriers, and pain of departing. In this blog Yvonne, talks about the great academic resignation which seems to be occurring. Trying to figure out why and where it’s happening and think about things that might be important to change going

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07:06

Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - How to prepare a search...

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2022/08/24

Dr Aida Suárez-Gonzalez narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Systematic reviews are powerful ways to assess the state of knowledge on a particular research topic. They appraise and collate all relevant empirical evidence and their impact can be enormous: from informing clinical decision-making to global policy. That is why it is critical that we conduct them with rigour. In this blog Aida provides a brief starter guide with 5 steps and practical tips to ease the way for those of you

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06:57

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - How academic misconduct affects...

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2022/08/19

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Dementia research has been in the news again. Sadly, there is no promising new drug on the horizon, and no new breakthrough in our understanding of the brain diseases, like Alzheimer’s, which lead to dementia. Instead, we find ourselves shocked by an investigation into what has become a high-profile case of potential academic misconduct in our field. This case has been widely reported in the press, but what hasn't been discussed

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05:30

Dr Anna Volkmer - Study Pre-registration: Say it, do...

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2022/08/17

Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Have you ever pre-registered your study? When you preregister your research, you're simply specifying your research plan in advance of your study and submitting it to a registry. Preregistration separates hypothesis-generating (exploratory) from hypothesis-testing (confirmatory) research. Both are important. But the same data cannot be used to generate and test a hypothesis, which can happen unintentionally and reduce the

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06:05

Nathan Stephens - Positionality and reflexivity, and...

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2022/08/15

Nathan Stephens narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. A formality for those working towards a masters or PhD and conducting qualitive research is to acknowledge and articulate their subjectivity and reflexivity. In this post Nathan tries to get his head around these two complex sounding and entangle concepts, and hopefully provide some insight for others who like him, who are currently constructing positionality and reflexivity statements. Find the original text, and narration here on

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07:51

Beth Eyre - A guide to moving abroad as a PhD student

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2022/08/08

Beth Eyre narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Some of you, who follow my social media, will already be aware that I’ve just moved from the UK to the USA for a 6-month research placement at the University of Pittsburgh. Moving abroad as a PhD student can be very overwhelming, especially as no one really tells you what to do or what to expect particularly regarding the actual moving process! So, in this blog Beth provides some helpful and practical tips on the process. Find the original

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04:22

Dr Clarissa Giebel - Making an impact: A week in...

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2022/08/05

Dr Clarissa Giebel narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Each year 30 research scientists are paired with UK parliamentarians and civil servants. They learn about each other’s work by spending time together in Westminster and the researcher’s institutions. Those taking part gain an insight into how research findings can help inform policy making, and come away with a better understanding of how they can get involved. Clarissa was one of the lucky few and in this blog she shares her

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06:57

Hannah Hussain - Stepping outside of academia

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2022/08/02

Hannah Hussain narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. PhDs are just for academics, right? Wrong! While having a PhD is almost always a must for progressing along the academic career trajectory, this is not their only purpose! The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published a report in 2020 on career ambitions of PhD students and found that although 2/3rds of PhD students want a career in academic research, only 30% stay in academia 3 years on. So, career paths are ever changing,

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10:37

Dr Yvonne Couch - How to be a Peer Reviewer

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2022/07/21

Dr Yvonne Couch, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Yvonne shares her thoughts and tips on the peer review process, some basic things to think about when reviewing both papers and grants and help you think about framing them in a way which is both professional and kind. There are some excellent resources online on this by places like Wiley feel free to go and check them out. Here Yvonne will take you through what she does and you can take it with a pinch of salt. Find the

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08:32

Adam Smith - Do you need research funding?

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2022/07/15

Adam Smith narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. It has been a few months since Adam put fingers to keyboard and wrote a blog. He tells us that he 'needs to be inspired', but these are inspirational times. In this blog, Adam has a simple message… it’s a great time to need research funding, because there is lots of it around! Adam highlights some of the currently open funding calls, and provides tips for those looking for a job that comes with funding. Find the original text, and

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04:57

Dr Sam Moxon - Communication is one of your best...

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2022/07/13

Dr Sam Moxon, narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. There are few things as important to our society as the ability to communicate with one another. It helps us express our ideas and feelings, understand the thoughts and emotions of others and build relationships. Communication allows us to both learn new ideas and pass our knowledge on. Without the ability to communicate, we would likely be one of the most primitive species on the planet. In this blog Sam makes a case for the

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06:34

Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - Age at onset in atypical...

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2022/07/08

Dr Aida Suárez-Gonzalez narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. One of the types of dementia I investigate in my research is Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA). PCA is also called the visual variant of Alzheimer´s disease (AD) because the syndrome is characterised by early and disabling visual difficulties and most (although not all) cases show underlying AD pathology. PCA is a young onset dementia, meaning most people with the condition present symptoms before the age of 65, typical in the

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02:54

Dr Clarissa Giebel - The value of conferences in a...

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2022/07/07

Dr Clarissa Giebel narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Have you met Clarissa in real life? Well, she has been out and about, and in this blog she discusses the value of in-person conferences, just incase you need some encouragement. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-the-value-of-conferences-in-a-since-pandemic-world/ -- Dr Clarissa Giebel is a Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and NIHR ARC North

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06:39

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Is it time to look at...

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2022/07/01

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Modelling human disease in animals has significantly advanced our understanding of major diseases and ways of treating them. Mammalian model systems, like mice, continue to be the dominant model of choice, with 79% of experimental and breeding procedures using rats or mice in Great Britain in 2020. However, these traditional models can be bottlenecks in the research pipeline, delaying progress in areas where effective therapeutics

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08:36

Nathan Stephens - An incoherent blurb from an unpaid...

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2022/06/28

Nathan Stephens narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. You already know Nathan the PhD Student, but what about Nathan the unpaid family carer? There are a number of reasons why he hasn't shared his and his family's lived experience with ‘you’ to date. It’s not because he's a fraud, nor because he hasn't tried... but because he simply couldn’t until now. In this post I he sheds a glimmer of light on their experience. There’s no real theme or even coherent narrative to the post, but he

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06:57

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Do you have to be a good writer...

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2022/06/22

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Are there are some days when all you feel you do is write? We imagine the life of a scientist is spent in the lab running experiments and making discoveries. The reality is far different. The further along Kam progresses in her career, the more time she spends outside the lab and in the office. Writing. But what is she writing about and how do you know if you're any good at it? In this blog Kam considers whether being good at

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05:07

Meet Esra Hassan, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

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2022/06/21

Last week we attended the Alzheimer's Disease International Conference in London. We took time out from the programme to talk with early career dementia researchers to ask them about their work, the challenges they have faced and how they overcame them. In this short interview we talk with Esra Hassan, PhD Student from Brighton and Sussex Medical School. During her MSc Esra completed research in the areas of neuroimaging to detect cognitive biomarkers in anxiety disorders, molecular cancer biology

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09:40

Dr Yvonne Couch - Negative Data

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2022/06/17

Dr Yvonne Couch, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Yvonne was chatting with a friend recently about publishing things, and he was lamenting that he had a ton of stuff that was just sort of languishing unfinished. It was interesting but just not complete enough to be considered a paper. So today we’re going to talk about how we, as early career researchers, can help the scientific field change by thinking about how, where and what we publish - including just what to do

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