As part of my Alzheimer’s Society funded PhD, I was afforded the opportunity to attend a multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting held by the memory assessment service (MAS) team in Brighton. The aim of this service is to ‘provide early detection, diagnosis,…
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Orla Bonnar: Visit to memory clinic 29 March 2017
Tagged with: Ageing, Alzheimer's Disease, Cognitive Ageing, Dementia, Doctoral students, PhD, Psychology, University of Sussex
Posted in Lab Life, Uncategorized
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5 Tips from a Thesis Writing Boot Camp
Right before the holiday season, I decided to attend the Sussex University Doctoral School’s Thesis Boot Camp and was pleasantly surprised by how much I accomplished and learned. One limitation was that the writing workshops mostly catered to the humanities…
Tagged with: Doctoral students, PhD, PhD Life, Postgraduate students, Psychology, Students, Sussex University, Thesis, Writing, Writing tips
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Alzheimer’s Research UK 2016 Conference
This week I attended the annual ARUK conference, in Manchester. This comprised a PhD day, followed by two days of the main conference. The PhD day included a number of talks from current PhD students on their research, as…
Tagged with: Ageing, Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's Research, clinical, conference, Dementia, Medicine, PhD, Psychology, Research, University of Sussex
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Rachel Clarke on Beginning my PhD…
I have been lucky enough to secure a studentship which started at The University of Sussex in September. It is linked to my previous role on the IDEAL study – Improving the Experience of Dementia and Enhancing Active Life: living well with dementia (http://www.idealproject.org.uk/).…
Tagged with: Academia, Ageing, Alzheimer's Disease, Carer, Dementia, IdealStudy, personal, PhD, Psychology, University of Sussex, Work-likebalance
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Post-PhD Reflection – Part I
So your PhD is done and dusted. Congratulations! So what have you gotten out of your PhD besides a new title, a piece of paper to put on your wall, and a book to go on your bookshelf (which are…
Tagged with: Academia, Brighton, Life, Life Lessons, PhD, Post-graduate, Psychology, Research, Sussex, University
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