Perpetual Postdoc - Breaking the Perpetual Postdoc Cycle
Dementia Researcher
12/12/21
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Adam Smith & Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali host this Twitter Spaces discussion for Dementia Researcher. They speak with four dementia research Professors about their careers, how they navigated the path to professor, discovering what they learned along the way, what they might do differently and getting their advice for any postdocs who are looking to progress, decide what comes next or who just feel stuck in the endless cycle of short-term contracts. Our guest panellists are: Tara Spires-Jones - Professor of Neurodegeneration & Deputy Director, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences within the UK Dementia Research Institute at The University of Edinburgh. Sci-fi fan and working on the Neurobiology of synapse degeneration. Louise Serpell - Professor of Biochemistry & Director of Sussex Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. Leading a busy research group with four Postdocs and three PhD students. Researching proteins and how they fold and misfold and proving her physics teacher wrong every day! Professor Claire Surr - Director of the Centre for Dementia Research at Leeds Beckett University, cycling and researching Dementia care and services with particular interest in care homes and hospital care and workforce education and training. Tammaryn Lashley - Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Research for the Queen Square Brain Bank at University College London. UCL 18 year veteran, leading a Neuropathology lab, supervising 11 PhD Students and wrangling two children. If you would like to get involved and join us for our next social audio chat drop us a line at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/dem_researcher ________________________ Odd News by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/
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Welcome to our mini-series on post-doccing in the 21st century, where we discuss the highs, the lows, the problems and the potential solutions. In this series Dr Yvonne Couch, ARUK Research Fellow from the University of Oxford is joined by Dr Kritika Samsi, Senior Research fellow at King’s College London, Dr Sarah Kate Smith, Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam and one of our new regular bloggers at Dementia Researcher Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali at the University of Glasgow. If you’ve not listened to either of the first two episodes go back and have a gander. In the first we our great postdoc panel give advice to early career researchers based on their experiences and in the second they talk about how their experiences have affected them and what they enjoy, as well as what we don’t, about life in academia. In this, the final episode, Yvonne, Kritika, Kamar and Sarah talk about some of the problems they bought up last time in more depth and contemplate what needs to happen in order for things to change. Tune in for some important discussion about the road to change. All this week Dementia Researcher is publishing content aimed providing help, advice and support for anyone who feels a little 'stuck' at the postdoc career stage. Ideal for anyone looking to break out into indepednant research, avoid ever getting in the situation, hoping to work out how to get a promotion or accept this but challenge the issue of short-term contracts. You can find out more about our guests, and access a full transcript of this podcast on our website at: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast Register on our website to receive your weekly bulletin, and to access more great content – blogs, science, career support + much more https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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Highlights from the Year - 2021 Round-up
December 20, 2021
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It's that time of year when we put out a special show of highlight clips, just to give everybody a couple of weeks off. 2021 has been another year of highs and lows, but despite the challenges, it's been wonderful to be able to continue to bring researchers together to discuss their work, and of course, careers advice. 2021 has been wonderful for partnerships too. We've worked with the National Center for Research Methods, Alzheimer's Association, and many of the great partners to bring you news. But what continues to blow us away is the amazing engagement we get from all of you, the listeners. The Dementia Researcher Podcast is now a regular in over 60 countries, and this year should see us hit over a 100,000 downloads, and our subscriber and listening numbers have once again increased year on year, now for four years straight. Of course, all of this is only possible thanks to the National Institute for Health Research, Alzheimer's Research UK, and Alzheimer's Society. We would also like to thank our fantastic colleagues at University College London, and of course, all of our contributors and guests on the show. Next year, we're going to be back and mixing up the format to ensure we regularly cover all topics you enjoy. We're also going to introduce some new themes, and hopefully, COVID allowing, make sure that we're recording back in the studio and at live events. So thank you again for listening. Have a great festive season and a Happy New Year. We hope you enjoy our highlights real, and check back between Christmas and the New Year wehn we'll be releasing some narrated blog collections we will be back on the 3rd of January with a special podcast we recorded live at the recent ARUK Scotland Network Meeting - getting the year to a great start with "Why grants get funded, and why they don't". You can find out more about our guests, and access a full transcript of this podcast on our website at: www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast Register on our website to receive your weekly bulletin, and to access more great content – blogs, science, career support + much more https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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