About this episode

Beccy Owen shares her insights and experiences from giving her first seminar during her PhD journey.

Beccy Owen narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. What if the thing you've been dreading since day one of your PhD turns out to be the best week of work you do all year? A seminar isn't an exam, and the audience isn't waiting to catch you out. In this blog, Beccy talks through what actually made the difference: pulling a year of scattered experiments into one place, working out the story before opening PowerPoint, stripping the text off her slides, and practising until she was sick of the sound of her own voice. There's also a decent argument here that questions at the end are the best part. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-giving-your-first-seminar/ -- Beccy Owen is a PhD Researcher at the University of Warwick, exploring how tau pathology disrupts neuronal ion channels and brain network activity in Alzheimer’s disease. As part of the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Programme, her work uses electrophysiology to better understand the molecular drivers of neurodegeneration. Originally from the Welsh countryside, Beccy’s passion for dementia research was shaped during her postgraduate studies and through personal experience with a family member…

People in this episode

Host: Dementia Researcher

Guest: Beccy Owen

Topics covered

• seminar preparation
• PhD experience
• dementia research
• public speaking
• electrophysiology

Keywords

• seminar
• PhD
• dementia
• research
• public speaking
• electrophysiology
• presentation skills

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Warwick, Dementia Researcher, Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Programme

Places: Welsh countryside

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