The Alzheimer Scotland Student Research Programme is excited to announce the first of two recipients of funding for 2024. This particular award, which will also be known as the Ella MacGregor Award, goes to the student Katie Robertson, supervised by a team led by Prof Simon Cox at the University of Edinburgh. 

The title of the project is “Neurostructural underpinnings of traumatic brain injury (TBI) dementia association”. The project relates to how and why traumatic brain injuries contribute to an increased risk of dementia. The project aims to analyse the brain scans (using data from UK Biobank) of people who have a history of head injury compared to those who haven’t, identifying any differences in specific brain areas and neural connections. You can find out more about Katie and the project she will be working on in the below video.

We are sure you agree that this is a novel and exciting project and SDRC and Alzheimer Scotland look forward to working with Katie and the team! 

The Alzheimer Student Research Programme support the next generation of dementia and brain health research by funding studentships at institutions across Scotland. Find out more here

Read more SDRC Blogs

Early Career Researcher Profiles

These Early Career Researcher profiles are some of the researchers that featured in the SDRC Annual Report 2022/23. We will share the rest of these profiles tomorrow, but you can read all profiles, and the rest of the SDRC report here  Lisa Davison  I am a...

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: Kieren Egan

We are delighted to share this guest blog from Kieren Egan, a Research Associate from the University of Strathclyde. Read below about Kieren's own PhD experience and life beyond in various research posts around the world. Kieren's blog is part of an entire series of...

Early Career Researcher Profiles

The Scottish dementia and brain health dementia and brain health early career researcher community is both exciting and diverse. The SDRC Annual Report 2022/3 highlighted just some of the innovative research taking place across Scotland in all disciplines from early...

Care home lockdown and the impact on families: Rapid Study Update

Care home lockdown and the impact on families: what hurt, what helped and what happens next   At the end of last year, we published a researcher blog from those involved in the Creative Covid Care study. This blog outlined their work on the experiences of...

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...

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...

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...

Project Update: Kelly Kelly at Celebrating Scottish Research Conference 2024

  Alzheimer Scotland Student Research Programme: update from 2023 recipient Kelly Kelly    In 2023, Kelly Kelly began her MRes project as part of the Alzheimer Scotland Student Research Programme. Kelly’s studentship is hosted by the Alzheimer Scotland Centre for...

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...