Dashboard – I'm a Scientist 2024/25

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About Me:

Hi, I am Esra. I am a PhD student in dementia at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). My background is in clinical neuroscience (the Brain!) and now I am based at the Centre for dementia studies. I am a mum to a 10 month old boy and I live by the countryside. Though I like a cheeky trip to Brighton beach for chips when I am in my office at BSMS 🙂
My Typical Day:

My day starts very early! Because I have a young baby who likes to wake up before 5am. After he is fed and sorted, he goes off to daycare and i take a three hour train at 6am from Bedford to Brighton to get the medical school (luckily i only have to travel in one day a week!). I am usually spending the day writing up research papers, analysing data using statistics and talking to people who live with dementia as i am developing a questionnaire. I usually have Teams call with my PhD supervisor, the clinical neuroscience group and other researchers day to day. I sometimes give a talk on my research for the clinical neuroscience group.
What I'd do with the prize money:

I would use the prize money to run a summer school from the centre for dementia studies for students to learn about dementia, the kind of research we do here, run Q&A sessions with researchers, Q&A session with people living with dementia and run small workshops over the 3-4 days the summer school.

Esra Hassan