Jan 30 2025 12 mins
Dr Becky Carlyle, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website.
This time Becky discusses the choices between teaching-focused and research-only academic careers in her blog, "To teach or not to teach?" Sharing insights from her own experience and general trends in academic contracts, Becky reflects on the challenges and opportunities associated with teaching roles. Her blog provides a balanced view on the implications of these decisions for early-career researchers and invites a discussion among academics about their personal experiences with teaching and research commitments.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-to-teach-or-not-to-teach/
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Dr Becky Carlyle is an Alzheimer's Research UK Senior Research Fellow at University of Oxford, and has previously worked in the USA. Becky writes about her experiences of starting up a research lab and progressing into a more senior research role. Becky's research uses mass-spectrometry to quantify thousands of proteins in the brains and biofluids of people with dementia. Her lab is working on various projects, including work to compare brain tissue from people with dementia from Alzheimer’s Disease, to tissue from people who have similar levels of Alzheimer’s Disease pathology but no memory problems. Becky is also a mum, she runs, drinks herbal tea's and reads lots of books. Find Becky on LinkedIn
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This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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