PhD Scholarship: Carnegie Trust
The Carnegie PhD Scholarships fund postgraduate research leading to a PhD at an eligible institution in Scotland. The Carnegie PhD Scholarship funding package includes: Stipend: currently £16,800 for the academic year 2020-2021, adjusted annually for inflation....
Researcher Blog: Doing Rapid COVID research
Today's SDRC blog provides insights from three investigators and offers tips on doing rapid COVID research. George Palattiyil, Sarah Swift and Debbie Tolson have shared their experiences of working together remotely and the process of the research, from the...
PhD Studentship: The right to decide? Supported decision-making in care transitions with older adults who lack capacity
The loss of ‘capacity’ in older age, most commonly due to neurodegenerative conditions like dementia, mean that people are no longer able to able make personal decisions for themselves. This can be due to being incapable of acting on the decision, making,...
Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice (ASCPP) Annual Celebration Report
The Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice (ASCPP) has launched its Annual Celebration Report to showcase the work of the Centre and celebrate outstanding dementia care during the pandemic. The ASCPP is led by Professor Debbie Tolson, one of our SDRC...
Alzheimer’s Research UK Scotland Network Early Career Researcher Event
This year the Alzheimer's Research UK Scotland ECR Network are moving their annual meeting online. It is being held on Friday the 4th of December, from 1.30pm-4.30pm. It is a great opportunity to get our ECR network together, share our science,...
How COVID has Impacted Early Career Researchers: July 2020 Survey Findings
, for theirYou may be aware, since the start of the pandemic, the SDRC have been communicating with members on the impact of Covid on dementia research. At the start of lockdown, we ran a survey to find out how the pandemic has affected ECRs. From this we created a...
Do you have insights to share with other researchers? Write a blog for the SDRC!
We are looking for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers to feature on our website and write a guest blog for the SDRC. You may already be familiar with our blog series, with each blog focusing on a researcher or group of researchers. We welcome contributions from...
Take part in a research study: Remote Cognitive Testing Survey
The University of Oxford are looking for volunteers from Scotland to take part in a survey about the Impact of COVID-19 on cognitive testing The Translational Neuropsychology Lab at the University of Oxford, are investigating the impacts of COVID-19 UK lockdown on...
How to organise a virutal conference: Our experience from the SDRC Conference 2020
The SDRC’s first ever virtual annual conference took place earlier this month. It was our first ever all-virtual event and, I am pleased to say, feedback has been positive. As much as we love face-to-face events, there is still uncertainty as to when and to what...
SDRC Virtual Conference 2020 Summary
On the 7th September 2020, the SDRC hosted our fifth annual conference. The Conference was our biggest event yet. Over 240 people registered to attend, with three plenary speakers, eight early career researchers, 15 poster exhibitors and four exhibition stands. Thank...
Tips for researchers during Covid-19- Advice from Dr Terry Quinn for Principal Investigators
We will soon be starting a series on the SDRC Blog from Principal Investigators, sharing their experiences of research over the past few months. Today, we have another blog from Dr Terry Quinn at the University of Glasgow. Terry is sharing tips for researchers during...
COVID Impact on Research: Principal Investigator Blog- Dr Terry Quinn
Following on from the success of our SDRC Early Career Researcher guest blogs, we wanted to represent our more established researchers as well. We are delighted to share a blog from Dr Terry Quinn, Clinical Senior Lecturer from the University of Glasgow and SDRC...
Participants Required for PhD Research Study: Carers and Former Carers who use Twitter
Are you currently, or have been previously, a carer for someone with dementia? Do you have experience in using Twitter? If so, please consider participating in an interview to help us understand your opinions and perceptions towards dementia related information on...
Research Study: Impact of Lockdown on Care Home Residents
The University of Edinburgh and collaborating partners are currently conducting research into the psychological impact that lockdown restrictions have had on the families of care home residents. This is not only an extremely important piece of research, but a...
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
Future Leaders Fellowships will grow the strong supply of talented individuals needed to ensure a vibrant environment for research and innovation in the UK. The scheme is open to researchers and innovators from across business, universities, and other organisations....
COVID Impact on ECRs: Tuuli Hietamies
The SDRC are continuting our series of blogs featuring Early Career Researchers who are sharing how COVID has impacted their research and career prospects. Today's blog is from Tuuli Hietamies, thank you Tuuli for your contribution! Read the rest of the blog...
Early Career Researchers: Fatene Abakar Ismail
In today's COVID Impact blog, Fatene Abakar Ismail from the University of Glasgow is sharing her experiences of lockdown so far, how the pandemic has affected research and balancing working with being a mum. Read more blogs in the series here. My name is Fatene Abakar...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Tharin Phenwan
This week on the SDRC blog we are continuing our Early Career Researcher blog series on the impact of COVID. Today's blog is by Tharin Phenwan. You can read the entire blog series here. My name is Tharin Phenwan. I am a second-year PhD student at the University of...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Fatima Alhayan
Today, we are pleased to share with you a guest blog by University of Strathclyde PhD student Fatima Alhayan. If you haven't seen our other COVID impact blogs yet, or would like to catch up with the full series, you can read them here. I am in the...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Angus Addlesee
Following on from the SDRC's busy week last week of launching both our Resource Funding and our Mentorship Scheme, we are pleased to bring you more blogs from our Early Career Researcher members, sharing how COVID has impacted them professionally and personally....
COVID Impact on ECRs: Rose Vincent
Read today's COVID Impact blog from Rose Vincent, who has recently started a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. This part of a series of many blogs from students and ECRs on how COVID has affected their research and also featuring many practical advice for those...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Katie Gambier-Ross
If you have been following on the SDRC website, you will have seen our blog series featuring some wonderful Early Career Researchers and student, sharing insights on how COVID has been impacting their research and career prospects, as well as some helpful tips for all...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Josie Fullerton
Today's blog is part of our COVID Impact blog series, where we are sharing the experiences of ECRs whose research has been affected by COVID, as well as helpful insights and tips to how to work through this time. If you are a dementia or brain health researcher and...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Angela Gregory
You may have read over the past few weeks we have been sharing blogs from Early Career Researchers on how COVID has been impacting their research and career prospects. Today's blog is by Angela Gregory, PhD Student at the University of the West of Scotland and...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Maria Drummond
In the coming days, the SDRC are publishing a series of blogs featuring Early Career Researchers who are sharing how COVID has impacted their research and career prospects. Today's blog is by Maria Drummond, PhD Student at the University of Glasgow My name is Maria...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Michael Smith
In the coming days, the SDRC are publishing a series of blogs featuring Early Career Researchers who are sharing how COVID has impacted their research and career prospects. Today's blog is by Michael Smith, a PhD student from UWS. A Deep roots are not reached by the...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Mohammad Mainuddin Mollah
Today's blog is part a series of featuring Early Career Researchers who are sharing how COVID has impacted their research and career prospects. Today's blog is by Mohammad Mainuddin Mollah, providing insight to supervisory support experiences of an international PhD...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Edel Roddy
The SDRC are publishing a series of blogs featuring Early Career Researchers who are sharing how COVID has impacted their research and career prospects. The first blogs in this series also featured in our COVID Research Impact Report which we published in April. Read...
COVID Impact on ECRs: Miriam Scarpa
In the coming days, the SDRC are publishing a series of blogs featuring Early Career Researchers who are sharing how COVID has impacted their research and career prospects. The first blogs in this series also featured in our COVID Research Impact Report which we...
Early Career Researchers: Martha Pollard
We hope you are enjoying our blog series which is celebrating our next generation of researchers, featuring those that were in the SDRC Annual Report 2019/20. Our final blog is by Martha Pollard, from the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Resource Centre. Read about...
Early Career Researchers: Suzanne Gray
As part of this blog series featuring PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers that were in the SDRC Annual Report 2019/20, today we are sharing the research from Suzanne Gray, read more below. I am currently a mental health nurse lecturer at Abertay University,...
Early Career Researchers: Juan Varela
This week, the SDRC are publishing a series of blogs to PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers that were featured in the SDRC Annual Report 2019/20. Today's blog is from Juan Varela from the University of St Andrews My academic background is a mixture of physics,...
Early Career Researchers: Jennifer Waymont
Recently as part of the launch of the SDRC Annual Report 2019/20, we have been sharing the work early career researchers by publishing a series of blogs from the ECRs that feature in the report. Today, we are featuring Jennifer Waymont, a PhD student from the...
Early Career Researchers: Krista Winkler
The SDRC continuing to publish a series of blogs from PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers in dementia and brain health that were featured in the SDRC Annual Report 2019/20. Our blog today is from Krista Winkler, a former MSc student in research relating to the...
Early Career Researchers: Luisa Parkinson
In the coming days, the SDRC are publishing a series of blogs featuring those that were in the SDRC Annual Report 2019/20. Read about Luisa Parkinson's research as a PhD student from the University of Edinburgh in this excerpt below. I am in my second year of my PhD...
Early Career Researchers: Angela Gregory
The SDRC are committed to celebrating our next generation of researchers by publishing a series of blogs to PhD Students/ Early Career Researchers. This week we are featuring those that were in the SDRC Annual Report 2019/20. Read about the research by Angela...