Dementia Researcher Blogs
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.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 618
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Hannah Hussain - Medicines Management in Dementia
Hannah Hussain narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
Hannah recently collaborated with Dementia UK to produce digital content for their website and practice development team. This provid…
Dr Sam Moxon - The Importance of Public Trust in Science
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 …
Dr Clarissa Giebel - From remote to face-to-face international research understanding the mental health needs of older adults in Colombia
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…
Dr Yvonne Couch - The Great Academic Resignation
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…
Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - How to prepare a search strategy for your systematic review
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 coll…
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - How academic misconduct affects ECRs
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 ou…
Dr Anna Volkmer - Study Pre-registration: Say it, do it, share it
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…
Nathan Stephens - Positionality and reflexivity, and why it’s not just for qualitative research
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 subj…
Beth Eyre - A guide to moving abroad as a PhD student
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 placemen…
Dr Clarissa Giebel - Making an impact: A week in Westminster with the Royal Society
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 sp…
Hannah Hussain - Stepping outside of academia
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 traje…
Dr Yvonne Couch - How to be a Peer Reviewer
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 pa…
Adam Smith - Do you need research funding?
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 i…
Dr Sam Moxon - Communication is one of your best research tools: Here’s why
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 fee…
Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - Age at onset in atypical Alzheimer´s: why it matters
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…
Dr Clarissa Giebel - The value of conferences in a since-pandemic world
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 confe…
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Is it time to look at alternatives to rodent models for dementia breakthroughs?
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. Mamm…
Nathan Stephens - An incoherent blurb from an unpaid family care worker
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 …
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali - Do you have to be a good writer to be a successful academic?
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 experim…
Meet Esra Hassan, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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 …