Dr Becky Carlyle, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website.
Dr Becky Carlyle, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website.
Becky shares practical insights on hiring your first lab team, from crafting inclusive job descriptions to structuring interviews and making thoughtful selections. Drawing from her own experiences, she offers advice on shortlisting candidates, forming interview panels, and assessing scientific curiosity and critical thinking. With a focus on balancing essential criteria with inclusivity, this blog provides valuable guidance for early-career researchers navigating the hiring process for the first time - useful if you're building a team... or applying for a job.
Find the original text, and narration here on our website.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-how-on-earth-do-i-hire-my-team/
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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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