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- 1When research becomes your reality: dementia and cancerBlog
- 2How to Be a Good Mentor: The Training Nobody Gave YouCareers
- 3Spend Your Placement Year at the Francis Crick InstituteDissemination
- 4Present Your Research in Montreal: IRCM ECS3 2026-27Opportunity
- 5Ready for a Cure: ARUK’s case for a joined-up UK dementia research systemResearch news
- 6Understanding Changes to the UKRI Funding StrategyBlog
- 7Nominate for the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards 2027Opportunity
- 8World Alzheimer Report 2026: Key Findings on Dementia Clinical TrialsResearch news
- 9Happy 200th: How UCL is Changing Dementia ResearchPodcast
- 10How to Apply for a Research Assistant Job (and Actually Get Shortlisted)Careers
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- Pandas, dementia and why we need to reach Early Career Researchers
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.
- When research becomes your reality: dementia and cancer
Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie researches how health conditions shape cognitive decline. Then her mum got dementia, heart disease and cancer, all before 63.
- Understanding Changes to the UKRI Funding Strategy
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.
- Forty years of dementia progress; how many more to go?
Dr Clíona Farrell reports from a UCL200 screening of the Carol Jennings documentary: forty years of progress, and the gaps in diagnosis, care and funding left.
- How not to lose the plot when you lose a postdoc
Dr Becky Carlyle on what a PI loses when a postdoc leaves, and the record keeping, offboarding and reframing that keep a lab going without them.
- 10 Things My PhD Has Taught Me So Far
Beccy Owen on 10 things my PhD has taught me so far, from troubleshooting and resilience to boundaries, confidence and not having your career mapped out.
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All podcastsUCL turns 200. Selina Wray, Aygun Badalova, Tammaryn Lashley and Andre Altmann on what dementia research has achieved there, and what needs to come next.
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Professor Christian Benedict and Dr Alana Brown on why women's sleep differs from men's, what the menstrual cycle changes, and why sleep apnea gets missed.
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Fellowship or lectureship? Fiona McLean, Kamar Ameen-Ali, Warren Donnellan & Sarah-Naomi James on workload, pay & if permanent still means secure
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Professor Emma Mead hosts Sanjay Manohar, Michele Hu, Laura Winchester and Peter Johnson on what will actually change the course of dementia and Parkinson's
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Partner blogDPhil, PhD by Publication, Professional Doctorate, what’s the difference?
Research newsTau strains keep their shape as they spread, mouse study shows
Partner blogHow to write a Research Professorship application
Research newsTalks from the ARUK Thames Valley Public Research Day
Partner blogWho’s Looking After the Researchers?
Research newsReady for a Cure: ARUK’s case for a joined-up UK dementia research system
DisseminationSpend Your Placement Year at the Francis Crick Institute- OpportunityNominate a Drug for ARUK’s Dementia Drug Prioritisation Programme
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