Preparing for your Viva
Dementia Researcher
09/23/19
•24m
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Sitting your viva is the culmination of years of work, to say it is a big moment is an understatement. If you are about to walk into your viva or you are at the beginning of the PhD journey, we have a panel of viva survivors to discuss tips, anecdotes and things they would do differently. Regular contributor Anna Volkmer is joined Dr Sarah Aldous, a Post-doctoral research associate at UCL, Dr James Fletcher, a Teaching Fellow at King’s College London and Dr Robyn Dowlen, Research Associate at the University of Manchester. To see profiles on all of our panellists, and to find more blogs and articles on taking your viva visit our website www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk A transcript of this podcast is available via our website, at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-preparing-for-your-viva/ If you would like to share your own experiences or discuss your research in a blog or on a podcast, drop us a line to adam.smith@nihr.ac.uk or find us on twitter @dem_researcher ____________ Join Dementia Research a topic of a previous podcast has been selected as a Top 100 innovation created by University College London. The overall winner will be decided by a public vote. It would be great if you could show your support by voting for them by hitting the thumbs up on this page - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/stories/join-dementia-research-getting-public-involved
Previous Episode
Writing Your Thesis
September 9, 2019
•48m
Our panel today are talking about 'Thesis Writing', and by the end of the discussion we hope listeners will be inspired, perhaps realise they are not alone, have a few new ideas on approach and most importantly will be itching to get back to writing as opposed to finding every chore under the sun to do as a way of getting out of it (that includes looking at Facebook, cat videos, pairing socks and staring out of the window). Adam Smith (who is unable to ever keep recordings down to 30 minutes) talks with Dr Marianne Coleman, a research Orthopist from the University of Surrey, Dr Josie Jenkinson a Consultant Psychiatrist from Surrey and Maxine Mackintosh, a PhD student from UCL. To see profiles on all of our panellists, and to find more blogs and articles on writing visit our website www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk If you would like to share your own experiences or discuss your research in a blog or on a podcast, drop us a line to adam.smith@nihr.ac.uk or find us on twitter @dem_researcher PS did you know the word Thesis comes from the Greek for "something put forth”.
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Collaborations and Qualitative Research in Dementia
September 25, 2019
•29m
What's possible when a group of creative, motivated, self-driven qualitative researchers find each other? Only time will tell, but if the first meeting of this group is anything to go by, you can expect some quality outputs, which add real value to helping people living with dementia. Dr Jemima Dooley (University of Bristol), Dr Sarah Griffiths, (University of Plymouth) and Anna Volkmer (University College London) work in the field of language and communications, an area which can be particularly challenging for people living with dementia. After becoming aware of each others work through social media, conferences and publications; they decided to come together to collaborate and invited others to join. Adam Smith joined the group's inaugural meeting, and in this podcast he talks with Jemima and Sarah to understand how the meeting came about, what they hope to achieve and what comes next. We hope that by sharing this story, we can encourage others across the UK and the rest of the world to come together to and make a breakthroughs possible (to quote great the ARUK strapline). A blog written by Anna Volkmer, sharing her take on the meeting is available here: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-meeting-of-minds-qualitative-research-in-dementia/ A transcript of this podcast is also available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-collaborations-and-qualitative-research-in-dementia/ _________________________ If you would like to share your own experiences or discuss your research in a blog or on a podcast, drop us a line to adam.smith@nihr.ac.uk or find us on twitter @dem_researcher _________________________ Join Dementia Research a topic of a previous podcast has been selected as a Top 100 innovation created by University College London. The overall winner will be decided by a public vote. It would be great if you could show your support by voting for them by hitting the thumbs up on this page - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/stories/join-dementia-research-getting-public-involved Thank you
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