Early Career Researchers: Emma Elliott
Today we have a new blog from Emma Elliott, a PhD student from the University of Glasgow. It follows on from the August Early Career Researcher series on the SDRC website: read all our most recent blogs here. Find out more about Emma's research below: I’m in the...
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Opportunity- Research Assistant University of Strathclyde
The School of Psychological Sciences and Health at the University of Strathclyde is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to support a new exciting project aimed at delivering new peripheral biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. This project...
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Early Career Researchers: Miles Welstead
Following on from our very successful August PhD student and Early Career Researcher blog series, we have many more blogs to share with you during September! Our first one is by Miles Welstead. Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with the series. I am a PhD...
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Understanding Dementia: Prevention, Playlists and Progress
Join the Edinburgh Dementia Prevention research team from the University of Edinburgh alongside dementia charity Playlist for Life for an evening discussion on how we can all improve our brain health, contribute to ongoing research and manage our risk of dementia in...
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Early Career Researchers: Clair Gamble
Our final blog in August's ECR series is by Clair Gamble, who is a PhD student at the University of Dundee. However, stay tuned in September as we may have to continue the series! Read the series so far here I am a Registered Nurse and final year PhD student at the...
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Early Career Researchers: Anna Jack-Waugh
You may have seen that throughout August, the SDRC are celebrating our next generation of researchers by devoting a series of blogs to PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers. Read the series so far here This blog is by Anna Jack-Waugh, who is based at the University...
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Early Career Researchers: Ilaria Pina
Today's blog in SDRC's series from PhD Students and Early Career Researchers is by Ilaria Pina. You can read the full blog series so far here, and keep up to date with the rest of the series, as well updates of all SDRC activity by following us on Twitter. Hi! I’m...
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Early Career Researchers: Linda Nicholson
Our blog today is by Linda Nicholson, a part-time Ph.D. student at the University of Dundee. Linda is also a registered nurse and is currently a Lecturer in Applied Life Sciences. Read more about Linda’s research below My current research project is focussed around...
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Early Career Researchers: Shaun Stone
We start off the fourth week of the SDRC's blog series on Early Career Researchers from Shaun Stone from the University of Aberdeen. Shaun's research relates to the SDRC's Diagnosis theme, which you can find out more about here. Shaun Stone is a final year PhD ERC...
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Early Career Researchers: Sarah Gregory
We are ending the third week of PhD student and Early Career Researcher blog series with Sarah Gregory, PhD student from the University of Edinburgh. Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with the series. Hi, I’m Sarah and I’m a part time doctoral candidate with...
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Early Career Researchers: Tharin Phenwan
Today's guest blog is from Tharin Phenwan, who is a PhD student at the University of Dundee. Throughout August, the SDRC are celebrating our next generation of researchers by devoting a series of blogs to PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers. Read the series so far...
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Early Career Researchers: Jennifer Waymont
Today's bio in our Early Career Researcher blog series is from Jennifer Waymont at the University of Aberdeen. Jenny Waymont is a PhD candidate in Medical Imaging at the University of Aberdeen. Her PhD thesis is on the automated detection and analysis of white...
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Early Career Researchers: Miriam Scarpa
Throughout August, the SDRC are celebrating our next generation of researchers by publishing a series of blogs to PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers. Read the previous blogs here Our next blog is from Miriam Scarpa. Miriam gives us a fascinating overview of her...
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Early Career Researchers: Emma Russell
Read our new blog below from Emma Russell, as part of the SDRC's series of blogs from PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers in dementia and brain health. Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with the series. I am a doctoral candidate studying at the University...
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Bursary for super resolution imaging with ESRIC and RS MacDonald
The ESRIC Access Fund supported by the RS MacDonald Trust The best possible super-resolution optical imaging can now be free! The Edinburgh Super-Resolution Imaging Consortium (ESRIC; www.esric.org), in partnership with the RS MacDonald Trust, have established a new...
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Early Career Researchers: Anca Sandu-Giuraniuc
As you may have seen, the SDRC have started a blog series featuring bios from ECRs. Read the series so far here. Today's bio is of Anca Sandu-Giuraniuc from the University of Aberdeen. Anca is a postdoctoral research fellow working in Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging...
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Early Career Researchers: Mizuki Morisaki
Next in the SDRC's blog series focussing on early career researchers, is a blog from Mizuki Morisaki, a PhD student at the University of St Andrews. Mizuki's work relates to the SDRC's Fundamental Science theme. I am a third year PhD student at the School of...
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Early Career Researchers: Samuel Quinn
Throughout August, the SDRC are celebrating our next generation of researchers by devoting a series of blogs to PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers. Read the series so far here This blog is by Sam Quinn, who is based at the University of the West of Scotland. His...
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Early Career Researchers: Laura McWhirter
The SDRC are committed to promoting and supporting researchers in the early stages of their career. This is why, we have put together a blog series featuring PhD students and ECRs from all disciplines. Read the series so far here Read Laura McWhirter's blog on...
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Early Career Researchers: Sarah Hesse
The SDRC are delighted to introduce this blog series where everyday we highlight and celebrate the wonderful contribution PhD students and Early Career Researchers make to dementia and brain health research. Read the previous blogs here Our next blog is from Sarah...
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Early Career Researchers: Catriona Ingram
Throughout August, the SDRC are publishing a series of blogs from PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers in dementia and brain health. For the first week, we are featuring those that were in the SDRC Impact Report 2019. Our final blog this week is by Catriona...
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Early Career Researchers: Stina Saunders
Throughout August, the SDRC are publishing a series of blogs from PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers in dementia and brain health. For the first week, we are featuring those that were in the SDRC Impact Report 2019. Read about Stina Saunders' research as a PhD...
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Early Career Researchers: Bryan Mitchell
Throughout August, the SDRC are celebrating our next generation of researchers by publishing a series of blogs to PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers. For the first week, we are featuring those that were in the SDRC Impact Report 2019. Read about Bryan Mitchell,...
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Early Career Researchers: Laura Aitken
Throughout August, the SDRC are celebrating our next generation of researchers by publishing a series of blogs to PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers. For the first week, we are featuring those that were in the SDRC Impact Report 2019. Our next blog is from Laura...
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Early Career Researchers: Kotryna Baronaite
Throughout August, the SDRC are celebrating our next generation of researchers by publishing a series of blogs from PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers. For the first week, we are featuring those that were in the SDRC Impact Report 2019. First, we have Kotryna...
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Early Career Researchers: Guest Blog for SDRC
The Scottish Dementia Research Consortium are looking for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers to feature in guest blogs on our website. The SDRC are always pursuing new and different ways to promote those early in their research career. From providing...
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PhD Studentship Opportunity at University of Edinburgh
Would you like to pursue a PhD to research methods to prevent dementia? There is a shortage of researchers trained in both abnormal brain blood vessels (traditionally ‘stroke’ researchers) and dementia (traditionally ‘dementia’ researchers). Alzheimer's Society have...
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PhD Studentship Opportunity at Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice
An exciting opportunity has been announced by the Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice at the University of the West of Scotland of a fully funded PhD studentship This research will explore the experience of people with dementia in supported housing. It...
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Scottish Neurological Research Fund: Award Announcement
The SDRC are delighted to announce the success of the inaugural Scottish Neurological Research Fund (SNRF) The SNRF was established to research the causes, prevention and management of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental conditions. The purpose of the fund is...
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The SDRC Impact Report 2019- Fundamental Science Theme
mn the SDRC Impact Report 2019, there is a section dedicated to the progress and ongoing work of each of the SDRC research themes. We have already shared excerpts of the report from four of the five themes. Last but not least we are focusing on the Fundamental...
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The SDRC Impact Report 2019- Living with Dementia Theme
On the 3rd June 2019, we launched the SDRC Impact Report 2019 For the first time, we now have an overall picture of who is doing dementia research in Scotland. In addition to providing this overview, we also have a section in the report for each of the SDRC research...
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The SDRC Impact Report 2019- Prevention Theme
Dementia Prevention, is one of the themes of the SDRC, which focus on the interrelated areas of dementia research. Theme lead- and SDRC chair- Professor Craig Ritchie, has written a section dedicated to the research across Scotland on dementia prevention and brain...
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The SDRC Impact Report 2019- SDIP Theme
The following is an excerpt of SDRC Impact Report 2019 which provides on overview of the research in the field of brain health Informatics, through the Scottish Dementia Informatics Partnership. Blogs on the other SDRC themes will be available in the coming days. The...
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The SDRC Impact Report 2019- Diagnosis Theme
On the 3rd June 2019, the SDRC launched our first Impact Report The report dedicates a section to the progress and ongoing work of each of the SDRC research themes. Over the next few days we are publishing a blog for each of the themes. Today, we are focusing on the...
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The launch of the SDRC Impact Report 2019
The SDRC are delighted to announce our Impact Report 2019, which was launched yesterday, 3rd June 2019 by Professor Craig Ritchie in his plenary session of the Alzheimer Scotland Annual Conference. The 840 delegates in attendance were among the first to get their...
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New SDRC Executive Committee Member- Dr Karen Watchman
Following the SDRC Executive Committee elections held earlier on 2019, we are delighted to have three new members. Our third and final blog post in this series highlighting our new members is for Dr Karen Watchman. Karen is an advocate of collaboration across all...
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