About this episode

This episode discusses the findings of a survey on early career researchers in dementia research and explores their challenges and motivations.

This episode works through Listening to Early Career Researchers , the 2022 survey report from UCL and ISTAART PEERs. It captured the views of early career researchers across the world. Work is currently underways to run this same survey again, so we thought this was a good time to recap on the original findings. The discussion follows the data rather than the headlines: why people come into dementia research, what keeps them awake at night, and why so many told us they were considering leaving the field. It ends on a more hopeful note about what it would take to bring people back. A note on how this was made. The audio is an AI generated discussion, produced using Google's NotebookLM from the text of the report. The two voices are synthetic, and the framing, emphasis and phrasing are the model's rather than ours. We have checked it against the source for accuracy, but it is best treated as a way into the report rather than a replacement for reading it. This is a pilot, and we are trying it out to see whether it is worth doing more of. We would genuinely like to know what you think: whether it worked for you, what fell flat, and whether you would like more episodes like this. Do…

Topics covered

• early career researchers
• dementia research
• survey findings
• research challenges
• AI generated discussion
• career retention

Keywords

• dementia
• research
• early career
• survey
• UCL
• ISTAART
• AI discussion
• career challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UCL, ISTAART

Books & works: Listening to Early Career Researchers

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