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

With her recent promotion comes new found freedoms and responsibilities... not everyone who enters academia is lucky enough to find research 'freedom', but if you do, will you be ready to be your own boss? Don't worry, you got this, and so has Anna, who was recenltly appointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator. In this blog Anna discusses leadership, support and how you can be ready to step out on your own when the time comes.

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

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-going-on-my-own-being-my-own-boss-for-my-new-fellowship/

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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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