Dr Anna Volkmer - Finding your cheer team: Maintaining resilience in academia

Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

When you publish a paper, you probably celebrate and share your news, telling your colleagues and everyone on social media - and everyone will probably share their congratulations. When you win a big grant, or a fellowship... do you want to share the news? Of course you do! However, when you know others are having a hard time or struggling, you may think twice... some may think "Good for you" and be inspired, others however may be less impressed.... how do you tell your colleagues who may only have a short time left on their contract that you just secured another 3, 4 or 5 years of funding? Anna has been thinking about resiliance, and how you celebrate success, following the exciting news of her new Fellowship award. 

Find the original text, and narration here on our website.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-finding-your-cheer-team-maintaining-resilience-in-academia/

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Dr Anna Volkmer is a Speech and Language Therapist and researcher in Language and Cognition, Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. Anna is researching Speech and language therapy interventions in language led dementia and was once voted scariest speech and language therapist (even her children agree).

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