DRNI is delighted to announce that our Early Career Researcher Day is taking place on Tuesday, 4 March 2025 in the Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast.
This is an in-person event, and will also be live-streamed. It is a free event and open to all!
To register to attend, or to apply to present, please go to: https://forms.office.com/e/TFxk9EYckY
Presentation applications
DRNI’s Researcher in Focus for December 2024 is Vamsi Krishna Boyanagari, who
is a PhD researcher at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, University of Galway.
DRNI are thrilled to announce a new webinar, Emerging Research: Dementia and Speech and Language Therapy.
Join us on Tuesday, 14 January 2025 at 11 am to hear speakers Dr. Suzanna Dooley and Lisa Sheridan speak about research in dementia and the speech and language field.
Meet our speakers!
October's Researcher in Focus is Dr. Jari Pirhonen, lecturer and social scientist at Tampere University in Finland. Jari spoke to us about his research into long term care and dementia.
What is your area of research?
DRNI have teamed up with our colleagues in Dementia Trials Ireland and the ARUK NI network for a joint meeting on dementia research in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Taking place in Queen's University Belfast on Monday, 21 October, the event will see presentations about dementia trials networks in Ireland and Northern Ireland, dementia trials in the Northern Irish context, and the capability for dementia research in Northern Ireland. The event will also have four presentations from Early Career Researchers.
Dr Jonathan Briody, health economist at the School of Population Health, RCSI, Dublin, took time out to talk to us about all things health economics, and why he is a good person to know if you've lost your keys!
What is your area of research?
DRNI, together with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, are delighted to announce that our event The Science of Dementia for the Non-Scientist is now open for registration!
Taking place Thursday, 12 September in the LexIcon, Dunleary, Co. Dublin, this is a one-day in-person event to build the understanding of the science behind dementia to the non-scientist, and will see presentations on dementia and the brain, risk factors, brain health, and information on the recent treatment developments.
DRNI, together with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, are delighted to announce that our event The Science of Dementia for the Non-Scientist is now open for registration!
This edition's Researcher in Focus is Carmel McKenna, Principal and Creative
Programme Director (Health and Wellbeing) at Munster Academy of Irish Dance. Carmel specialises in adaptive Irish céilí dance programmes, co-developed with and for people living with dementia, and took some time
There are two vacancies for the new study EMERALD-Lewy: Improving the diagnosis, management, and lived experience of overlooked dementias in Ireland.
EMERALD-Lewy is funded by Health Research Board (HRB) under the Applied Programme Grants (APRO) 2023, awarded to Principal Investigator Prof. Iracema Leroi, TCD. The research programme is currently looking to fill two posts: