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
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Dr Clarissa Giebel, narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
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Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Dr Emily Oliver, narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
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Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Morgan Daniel, narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher - first published on 30th September 2020, being added to our podcast stream as we migrate away from website MP3 files.
Anna has always been aware of a lack of diversity in her clinical profession. She doesn't need all the fingers on one hand to count the number of bilingual people who were on her training course (Including her- German-English bilingual). If you were asked to count the number of people of a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background it would be even fewer- three to be precise. As she has gone into academia she noticed even less diversity on her career pathway. Very few BAME researchers, and even fewer BAME speech and language researchers. In fact I can tell you I have only met one (as of September 2020). Anna discusses diversity
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-talking-about-diversity-in-dementia-research/
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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).
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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@ucl.ac.uk
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This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support.
Saturday Sep 26, 2020
Saturday Sep 26, 2020
Adam Smith, narrates his blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
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Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Morgan Daniel, narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Michelle Naessens, narrates her blog written for NIHR Dementia Researcher.
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