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Dementia Friendly Communities in the UK and Japan As the national evaluation of Dementia Friendly Communities (DEMCOM) Project comes to an end,  Dr Elspeth Mathie (DEMCOM study member and co-lead Inclusive Involvement in Research (Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East of England) visited...
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Feeling grateful: the day after the ‘Young Minds Inspiring Health & Wellbeing Research Event’. A blog by Tracey Johns Today I am feeling so grateful and inspired after our first NIHR ‘Young Minds Inspiring Health & Wellbeing Research’ event yesterday evening. We have been planning this...
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International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) 2019 – Reflections of an early career researcher, Joyce Coker I joined the Frailty Trajectories Project over 2 years ago as a very green postdoc who had completed a PhD only months before. During my time on the project, I...
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Dementias 2019 Annual Conference. A blog by Felix Clay I’m now at the end of my six month NIHR CLAHRC EoE funded Academic Apprenticeship. As part of my placement I’ve led a systematic review of the literature on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology in the assessment, understanding and...
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Volunteering and International Psychiatry Special Interest Group (VIPSIG) Annual Conference: A Blog by Dr Felix Clay I’m currently undertaking a six-month NIHR CLAHRC funded Academic Apprenticeship having completed my Core Psychiatry Medical Training. As part of my placement I’m undertaking a...
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Why I applied for the CLAHRC Fellowship. A blog by Shimrit Ziv I’m a child and adolescent psychiatrist and paediatrician. I work at the Croft unit in Cambridge with children and families with complex mental health difficulties and am currently undertaking a fellowship with the Collaboration for...
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Inclusive Dance. A blog by Rashmi Becker I have always had a passion for dance. I trained in different styles of dance as a child and have enjoyed it socially as an adult. As guardian to my older brother who has Autism, dance and music was a wonderful way for us to connect as children. I saw the...
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Public Engagement in Research Award Blog by Dr Anna Spathis, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Associate Specialty Director in Palliative Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine and Dr Stephen Barclay, University Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care, University of Cambridge,...
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Better together….the future of care home research? A blog by PenCLAHRC A Cross-CLAHRC research event was held on the 23rd of November to showcase what CLAHRCs have achieved in care home research to date and to foster learning from the variety of regional research that has national...
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Pride in the CLAHRC Research Capacity in Dementia Care Programme (RCDCP). A blog by Rachel Daly Building capacity in research in dementia care was never going to be an easy endeavour but the East of England, Wessex, Manchester and Pen CLAHRCS are not put off by a challenge! In 2015 they appointed...
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