Dementia Researcher Blogs
The Dementia Researcher Blogs Podcasts - through this show, you can hear our bloggers read their blogs. So if you prefer to read, you can head or our website or you can listen on the move. These shows are about academic / research careers, research, science and life as an early career dementia researchers. Brought to you by https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk - everything you need, all in one place. Remember to subscribe to our main ‘Dementia Researcher‘ Podcast, here and where ever you get your podcasts.
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Episodes
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Hannah Hussain narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
There’s no question that the academic in your life deserves the best – no matter the occasion! Be that your supervisor, student, mentor, partner or even just a colleague secret Santa. It’s been a tough year – and we’re all trying to end it on a high. I know how hard shopping can be during the festive season, so many choices yet no clue what to buy?! With 7 shopping days to go, in this blog Hannah is going to cover her top 10 festive gift recommendations (with varied price points) for the academic or scientist in your life!
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-player-001
Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new bloggers, drop us a line.
http://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Dr Clarissa Giebel narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
In health and social care, we often think about research methodology in one of two ways – qualitative or quantitative. But what if we use both? Dr Clarissa Giebel discusses mixed methods research and how she uses this method in her own work.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-what-is-mixed-methods-research-and-how-do-you-go-about-it/
If you would like to write your own blog drop us a line, we're always on the look out for new contributors to write about their research, careers + more dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
In September Dr Anna Volkmer described the trials and tribulations of going for gold, in other words open access publication. Well, she promised to update us, and in this blog she does (spoiler alert - the paper is now in the public domain).
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/green-and-gold-the-highs-and-the-lows-of-open-access-publications/
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Dr Anna Volkmer is a Speech and Language Therapist and researcher in Language and Cognition, Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. Anna is researching Speech and language therapy interventions in language led dementia and was once voted scariest speech and language therapist (even her children agree).
If you would like to write for us, or join out team of regular contributors, drop us a line - dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Nathan Stephens narrates his blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
In last month’s blog Nathan spoke about a shift in the way we think about our economies, geared towards ‘social value’. This holistic concept of value reflects the complexity of the modern world and the challenges that face society today and tomorrow. Nathan is using a social value framework – Social Return on Investment – to capture and measure the impact of the Worcestershire Meeting Centres project, which to recap, is the scaling up of a community-based intervention (Meeting Centres) across a county in England. SROI is a mixed methods framework for measuring and accounting the social value developed by Social Value International.
In this blog Nathan talks us through the stages and principles,
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-an-introduction-to-social-return-on-investment
Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new bloggers, drop us a line.
http://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
The traditional academic career track is no-longer the norm, so now you need to find your own path, which can include leaving and returning - Kamar discusses in this blog
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-when-to-leave-academia-and-how-to-return-if-you-change-your-mind
If you would like to write your own blog drop us a line, we're always on the look out for new contributors to write about their research, careers + more dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Dr Sam Moxon, narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher.
As part of our week of focussing on post-doc challenges, Dr Sam Moxon considers how to breakfree of doing other peoples research, and progress to being a PI and following your own research path (something he hopes to do himself very soon).
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-how-to-develop-research-independence/
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Dr Sam Moxon is a biomaterials scientist at the University of Manchester. His expertise falls on the interface between biology and engineering. His PhD focussed on regenerative medicine and he now works on trying to develop 3D bioprinting techniques with human stem cells, so that we better understand and treat degenerative diseases. Outside of the lab he hikes through the Lake District and is an expert on all things Disney.
Enjoy listening and reading our blogs? We're always on the look out for new contributors, drop us a line and share your own research and careers advice dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Dr Yvonne Couch, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website.
A thoughful blog from Dr Yvonne Couch, discussing some of the challenges faced by postdocs, exploring some of the problems faced in science careers and nicely prepairing you for next weeks perpetual postdoc podcasts and support articles.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-academic-life-and-the-problems-of-perpetual-post-docing/
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Beth Eyre, narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
With many doctoral training programme deadlines approaching, this blog from Beth Eyre might just help you ace the interview.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-three-important-things-to-remember-when-preparing-for-a-phd-interview
We're always on the look out for new contributors, if you would like to write and narrate your own blog - drop us a line to dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk
Don't forget to also listen to our fortnightly - published fortnightly, just look for Dementia Researcher in your podcast app.
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Hannah Hussain narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
Did you watch Squid Game? Warning this blog contains spoilers! Hannah Hussain explores the image of dementia portrayed on television.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-player-001
Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new bloggers, drop us a line.
http://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk