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Dementia Researcher Vodcast - Part Two - What do researchers need to know, advice from people living with dementia
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Part Two - What do researchers need to know, advice from people living with dementia

Dementia Researcher Vodcast

10/21/18

31m

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In this podcast Adam Smith from University College London talks to Chris Roberts, Jayne Goodrick and Hilary Doxford. Three fantastic people who directly and indirectly live with the effects of dementia every days, and have spent many years, campaigning to improve dementia awareness and championing the importance of research. In this two part special filmed on location at University of Exeter Medical School, the panel give advice to early career researchers. Exploring their personal experiences as research participants, and what they would like to see done better.

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We all have to deal with failure during our careers. But how do you handle it? In this podcast regular host Chris Hardy is joined by Charlotte Mykura from Swansea University, and Oz Ismail and Anna Volkmer both from University College London. Being a researcher can be incredibly rewarding. The potential to improve the lives of people with dementia, improve care, find new treatments or better understand the disease and its causes is amazing. However, a thick skin is useful. Dealing with rejection, and trying to not feel like an imposter are important things for us to learn. These are issues that come up time and time again, and not just during early careers, but even for the most senior of people. Failed experiments, rejected papers, unsuccessful grant applications are all part of the job, and event when we are successful we have to avoid feeling like impostors, and enjoy the success and the rewards. Finally, of course, we are using the term ‘failure’, however, we are know that failure is open to interpretation. Because we learn from our failures as much as we do successes.... can our panellists help?

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Student Health and Wellbeing

November 4, 2018

34m

Research, the discovery of new knowledge, has been described as an endless frontier. There will certainly be instances during a PhD and beyond when curiosity driven activity can indeed seem vast and relentless. It is critical that researchers at whatever stage in their career develop the capacity and capability to generate an appropriate perspective on what they are facing. Put simply, and starkly, doing research depends on being well. As such, an awareness on health and wellbeing is central, and getting the right support is key. In this podcast Oz Ismail from UCL is joined by Géraldine Garrabet a Student Support and Welfare Officer, from the School of Physics & Astronomy at University of Manchester, Dr Caroline Selai a Senior Lecturer from the UCL Institute of Neurology and finally Kellie Morrissey a Research Fellow working at the Open Lab in Newcastle University.

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