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04/02/2022

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Jodi Parslow

Name:

Jodi Parslow

Job title:

Senior Scientific Content Strategist / Writer

Place of work / study:

King’s College London / Supreme Optimization Ltd.

Area of Research:

PhD was in molecular neuroscience, working on a novel cell death mechanism involving the breakdown of the nucleus and extracellular vesicles in neurodegeneration. Current role is outside of academia working for a digital marketing agency for the life sciences. Creating marketing and content strategy / assets for big life science companies across the globe.

How is your work funded?

N/A

Tell us a little about yourself:

I am the first in my family to go to university. From a working-class, single-parent family. Medical Neuroscience BSc First Class with Honours, Neuroscience Master of Research (MRes) Distinction (Top of Class/School Prize winner). Then worked in wearable technology and then as an RA at King’s. My PhD started in 2020 funded by the MRC (MRC-DTP) and I defended (viva) in July 2024. I co-host a podcast, have a Scicomm platform, and now recently moved out of London and bought a “banged up bungalow” by the sea. Life is now working from home (flexible hours), renovation project, and a lot of running along the undercliffs.

Tell us a fun fact about yourself:

I co-authored an Amazon BestSeller during my PHD.

Why did you choose to work in dementia?

Family members with the condition and experience nursing patients and seeing how it affected them and their families. I wanted to do more to help.

What single piece of advice would you give to an early career researcher?

You do not need it all planned out. Be open to opportunities as they arise.

What book are you reading right now? Would you recommend it?

I do not have a lot of time for reading (and after the PhD and a day job reading and writing all day it is not always my first choice of leisure activity anymore), however I have started reading Look In The Mirror by Cat Steadman – fab author if you like a thriller.

Favourite film of all time?

It will always be Titanic

Favourite ways to unplug and unwind?

If you had asked me 6 months ago it would have probably been TV. I have been on a health journey and now I LOVE going for a walk or run by the sea or somewhere green.