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

Dr Becky Carlyle on improving research culture in a skint department: start with the data, show people you listened, and only write policy when it helps.

Dr Yvonne Couch borrows from organisational psychology to ask what research culture really means, and why it follows what we reward, not what we say.

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.