We are now hiring for a Dietitian, Community Programs in Inuvik, Northwest Territories! Salaries up to 126.8k plus $36.7k - $37.9k in paid benefits in the first year, as well as comprehensive health & dental, defined benefit pension and relocation assistance are provided. ow.ly/AE6X50WNSSX #medsky

This quote underscores the urgency and importance of the WATCH project’s mission: to break down barriers and create best practice guidance for inclusive vaccine trials in care homes. 🔍 Learn more about how we’re tackling this challenge.

A welcome chance to have studying time in one of my favourite libraries today. Buzz of Edinburgh festival just outside, ordered loveliness of books inside. What are some of your favourite go-to spaces? #NewCollege #UniversityofEdinburgh

Perhaps you are a current or past researcher and you have asked such questions of yourself, too. Come and explore these questions with us this afternoon!

Marseille view as the heat begins to ease #france #marseille #midsummer #sunset

Join the University of Aberdeen as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Practical Theology, exploring dementia & mental health across cultures. Apply by 2 June 2025. Closing date: 2nd June www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

What a privilege it has been to learn from the insights of family carers & care staff in my research on freedom. Join us to reflect together on ways to connect to strengthen common humanity & community solidarity to benefit everyone. Tickets are free and I've put the seminar link in the comments 😊

This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we’re re-sharing our blog on how mindfulness can support people living with dementia and unpaid carers.💙 Written in collaboration with Martha Pollard at @slantinglight.bsky.social - read the blog here: www.agescotland.org.uk/news/1287-bl... #mindfulness #dementia

Great to have had the chance to collaborate on the blog and to be able to share it again this week. Mindfulness and (self)compassion can be so beneficial for us in anything we may be experiencing 😌 #community #wellbeing #commonhumanity #solidarity #listening #being #creativity

An Edinburgh Waverley day today #trains #meetings #Scotland #scenery

Our next Coffee Conversations event will look at Dementia and Sensory Loss. We will be joined by Dr Amy White from @alliancescot.bsky.social and unpaid carer Myra Lamont. Let’s talk, learn and support each other! ☕️ Find out more and sign up: agescotland.org.uk/information-...

Join the Community Led Support Annual Spring Festival on 22 & 23 May. If you're new to CLS, join the opening session that will explain what CLS is & how it works in practice on 22 May at 9.30am. Register your interest for this free webinar: www.ndti.org.uk/news/registr...

Listening brings me alive. When someone really listens to you, how does that feel? I love exploring listening-type questions, and I write 'The Listening Lodge' newsletter over on Substack -- do check it out if you like, I would love to hear your thoughts 😊

Interested in a career in #socialcare? Have a look, please share with friends, family & people you work with! #futureofcare www.careersincare.scot/sccot/

One of headiest scents in the garden, especially first thing in the morning - honeysuckle 🌱Flowering now, it’s a joy, a glimmer ✨Glimmers are the opposite of triggers. Looking out for glimmers during your day is a mindful way to cultivate gratitude and therefore, joy. #bloomscrolling #gardening

📢 Join us tomorrow - 24 April at 12pm BST for a livestream exploring career pathways in applied #DementiaResearch and the latest findings of a new report 'Building Careers in Applied Dementia Research'📊🎓 🔗 Set a reminder & watch on YouTube youtube.com/live/6IN-isD...

Such a life-giving anthology (thank you, Deborah Alma) I especially love this poem, 'The Word,' by Tony Hoagland, which re-connects me with myself. What are your own ways of connecting with what is life-giving and full of meaning for you? #poetry #meaning #words #feeling

Great things seem rare sometimes and yesterday I feel like I found one in the Anna platform for small businesses. I will be learning more as I start using it (for my counselling work). Have others already been using it? If so how are you finding it? anna.money/business-acc...

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'Earthed in inescapable reality of dust, my lost self found it remembered what it has come to know once more of resurrection: it is here among us, ever-arising from dust.' #Easter #poem #hope marthapollard.substack.com/p/easter-cle...

Calling poets 🖋️📚

Accidental camouflage #spring #walking #air

It's out! 5th edition of #qual #methods for health research now published, and in a library near you soon!

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April 5, 2025

The University of Edinburgh 12 month Clinical fellowships enabling predoctoral clinical fellows to develop ideas and pilot data to support PhD applications. Closing date: 14th April www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/clinical...

The University of Stirling is recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time. Closing date: 22nd April www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-rela...

Great opportunities here to learn about the bespoke and local & how Small Supports organisations deepen human rights

I feel I need a crash course in how to respond with integrity to manipulative/twisted language/actions. I am too often left internally & externally speechless that someone has even been able to think up the strategy they're using & the only words I can think of are incoherent strings of profanities.

Sharing the joy #gift #beauty #gratitude

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

Would love to see you there! 😊

Research Associate/ Fellow vacancy at University of Nottingham with a focus on improving the quality of life for people with dementia and their carers through the sharing of lived experience narratives. Closing date: 31st March www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

The Internships Work National Legacy Conference is starting now! Learn from sector leaders, policy makers, and peers as they discuss sustainable strategies for the future of Supported Internships. Click here to join now: (direct link to join shared as you submit the form) ow.ly/GeSx50V9R5c

Join us on Wednesday for our next Salon Webinar with @patrickalfrynlewis.bsky.social & Dr Rachael Kelley - sharing tips from their time as Grant Reviewers. communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/gra...

🎙️ From podcasts to mentoring to career support—our impact in 2024 speaks for itself. See how we’ve helped ECRs thrive: www.canva.com/design/DAGUJ...

Also: North Sea Poets' first Substack - what is poetry *for?

University of the West of Scotland are recruiting a Research Fellow to work on "Co-produced career guidance intervention for people living with dementia" with Prof Louise Ritchie. Closing date: 13th March www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

North Sea Poets is live! We offer online masterclasses, webinars, workshops for poets everywhere (novice or adept) and readers, because poems sing in the dark times. Hope you'll join us. Pls see website. Do share. northseapoets.com 🌊 @northseapoets.bsky.social

Deeply embedded in poetry lie honesty, respect, humility and concern for human and natural worlds. I'm delighted to be a part of #NorthSeaPoets, offering online masterclasses, workshops and webinars to poets and readers. #Poetry northseapoets.com 🌊 Follow @northseapoets.bsky.social to learn more

"I worry about the future" - a stark warning from @scottishcare.bsky.social's latest survey as care homes face declining placements. Without immediate support, we risk a #SocialCareCrisis. Read our full media statement here: buff.ly/3EYQDO4

To mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Scottish Parliament building you can vote for new poetry quotes to go on the Canongate Wall by Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay & Kathleen Jamie. Details and how to vote in link: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/02/publ...

See the person, not a problem that needs to be fixed. Everyone in the care sector talks about person centred planning. But are they just nice words that hide the reality? @nic-crosby.bsky.social Crosby and Amanda Nally explore and share a new training opportunity. www.ndti.org.uk/news/seeing-...

Choosing no (and yes) My recent blog on my times past, and times present, the foundation of my internal 'no,' the power of collective 'no' and what this no means I am saying yes to by way of our universal, innate human worth open.substack.com/pub/marthapo...