Katy Stubbs PhD Neuroscience, 2016 and BSc Biomedical Sciences, 2011

Science Communications Officer at Alzheimer's Research UK

For my PhD at Southampton, I was trying to understand how brain cells die in dementia by studying a particular part of the cell which we believe gets damaged as people age.

I’m a science communicator for Alzheimer’s Research UK. We have a great team and everyone is engaged and passionate about the job. It’s very varied ranging from working with the press to add a bit of balance when inaccurate stories come out about Alzheimer’s, to writing up our own research in ordinary language. I also help our fundraising teams to understand what our scientists are doing so they can talk to donors about it. Essentially I’m raising awareness of dementia and emphasising the fact that we need more research into it.