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Dr Zanna Voysey
Name:
Dr Zanna Voysey
Job Title:
Clinical Research Fellow / Neurology Specialist Registrar
Place of work / study:
University of Cambridge
Area of Research:
How is your research funded:
Guarantors of Brain
Tell us a little about yourself:
I’m a Neurology clinician currently undertaking a PhD with Roger Barker’s group in Cambridge, studying whether sleep abnormalities accelerate dementia pathobiology.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself:
I have synaesthesia!
Why did you choose to work in dementia:
I had prior research experience in sleep, just when sleep vs dementia was becoming a hot topic, and I became interested to know more about how sleep and dementia could be connected.
What single piece of advice would you give to an early career researcher?
Don’t think you can’t make valuable contributions just because you aren’t skilled in ‘hard’ skills like wet lab techniques/statistics/programming etc – there are many other skills (writing and presenting clearly and persuasively, knowing how to create a narrative from data, thinking critically) that are even more important, and many people lack these.
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