Contract ending? Waiting on a grant? Practical advice on your rights, your money, your job search and your head, plus how to help someone going through it.
This piece from Science.org examines how initial fears gave way to confidence and fulfillment in academia by embracing opportunities outside your comfort zone.
Fellowship or lectureship? Fiona McLean, Kamar Ameen-Ali, Warren Donnellan & Sarah-Naomi James on workload, pay & if permanent still means secure
Thinking about a masters in dementia? What it costs, how to fund it, whether you need one at all, and how to pick the right course for what you actually want.
Dr Ajantha Abey shares six more PhD habits worth starting early, covering notes, ideas, networks, conferences, side projects and life after the PhD.
Learn how early-career researchers can strengthen their track record, boost their research proposal and assess institutional fit for a first research fellowship
You can add your own jobs, events, funding calls and courses to the Dementia Researcher website. It is self-service, free, and takes about five minutes. We are also looking for bloggers and podcast ideas.
Dr Connor Richardson looks at what we know about dementia risk in LGBT people, why the evidence is so thin, and what LGBT dementia research needs next.
The NIHR research workforce update for England sets out plans for careers, protected time, inclusion and research across health, public health and social care.
Qualitative data is more than transcripts. Explore how silence, setting and fieldnotes become evidence, and what AI may miss when research is reduced to text.
Getting a grant funded starts with knowing what the panel wants. Louise Serpell shares advice from the review board, summary to interview.
Dr Ayokunmi Ojebode is a lecturer and dementia researcher specialising in ageing, arts, co-production, health humanities and culturally responsive care.
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