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Catchup – Salon – Navigating your First Fellowship Application
January 15 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A weekly gathering to discuss careers and research topics, inspired by 17th and 18th century salons from Paris, with a modern twist. These sessions combine livestreams, guest speakers and group chat to exchange ideas, challenge, influence, inspire and educate.
In this session we talk about Navigating your First Fellowship Application.
Navigating your first fellowship application is a crucial step in advancing your academic career and establishing your research identity. In this workshop, but what are the essential components of a successful application? How do you craft a compelling research proposal? Are you correctly understanding the selection criteria. By discussing common challenges and strategies for overcoming them, we aim to equip early-career researchers with the insights necessary to approach this process with confidence.
Speakers
Dr Suraj Samtani – is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA). He is the Study Coordinator for the SHARED (Social Health And Reserve in the Dementia patient journey) project. He obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology and Master of Psychology (Clinical) from UNSW. His PhD research focused on the assessment and treatment of cognitive processes such as rumination and worry across disorders. He has worked extensively in clinical practice treating a wide range of conditions across the lifespan.
Dr Jenna Merenstein obtained a BSc in Psychology from Colorado State University and her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Dr. Lani Bennett’s Laboratory of Aging and Neurocognitive Imaging at the University of California, Riverside. She is currently, a Postdoctoral Research in Dr. Dave Madden’s laboratory at Duke University Medical Center. My postdoctoral work is funded by an F32 National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). She is now working on establishing her own lab investigating the neurobiological substrates of healthy cognitive aging and they differ from Alzheimer’s disease.
