Dementia Researcher Blogs

Hannah Hussain narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Vitamins and supplements are not pharmacological interventions and are not typically provided by the NHS. But this does not mean that…

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-h…

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 ou…

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 everyd…

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 d…

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…

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 a…

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.…

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 befo…

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 fel…

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, sh…

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 whe…

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…

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 cul…

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 publish…

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 o…

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 peop…

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’ Soc…

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 si…

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 …