Dementia Researcher: Careers, community and support for early career dementia researchers.

Carer and PPI member Fiona Hartley on the Celebrating Scottish Research conference in Stirling, co-production, and why other conditions matter in dementia.

Beccy Owen swaps the lab for gorge walking and Silverstone, and finds that a PhD might be an individual qualification, but science is a team sport.

Does rugby cause dementia? Dr Connor Richardson, epidemiologist and amateur player, reads the evidence twice and finds it messier than the headlines.

Why are people living with dementia in care homes still left out of research? Bernie McInally on what early career researchers hear, and what they don't.

Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie researches how health conditions shape cognitive decline. Then her mum got dementia, heart disease and cancer, all before 63.

Dr Yvonne Couch reads UKRI's new grant assessment plans and asks what fewer, longer grants, triage and interviews mean for early and mid-career researchers.