# Emily Spencer

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Emily Spencer - Letting Go of Mum Guilt

Emily Spencer, narrating her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. In this blog, Emily reflects on her experience as a working parent balancing a PhD with raising an energetic toddler. Initially confident in her childcare arrangement, she recently realised that juggling work during nap…

Emily Spencer - Rethinking Balance in Research

Emily Spencer, narrating her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. In this blog, PhD student Emily shares her reflections after attending the Alzheimer’s Society early career researcher retreat. She explores the myth of achieving perfect work-life balance, admitting how easily boundari…

Emily Spencer - Time, Work, and a Two-Year-Old

Emily Spencer, narrating her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. In her latest blog, Emily reflects on the daily challenges of combining academic life with motherhood. Balancing the demands of a PhD, a new role, and parenting a spirited toddler, she explores how parenthood shapes her…

Emily Spencer - Battling Disconnection

Emily Spencer, narrating her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. In this blog, Emily reflects on the quieter strain of doing a PhD while juggling work, parenting, and limited support. She writes openly about feeling overwhelmed, isolated, and out of step with peers, and how those fee…

Emily Spencer - Learning to Let Good Be Enough

Emily Spencer, narrating her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Emily reflects on a lifelong struggle with perfectionism and how it shapes her learning, work, and wellbeing. Through personal stories spanning school, sport, previous employment, and her PhD, she explores the tension b…

Between the Bells Murfreesboro - Dr. Maria Johnson & Emily Spencer

On this episode of Between the Bells, Lisa Trail talks to Director of Human Resources and Educator Effectiveness, Dr. Maria Johnson about one of the exciting ways Murfreesboro city schools partners with MTSU and we find out what she would be doing if she did not work for city schools. Lisa also tal…

Emily Spencer - Motherhood, PhDs, and the Funding Gap

Emily Spencer, narrating her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. In this blog, Emily shares her experience of balancing a PhD with early motherhood, reflecting on both the encouragement she has felt and the assumptions she made along the way. What begins as a story of managing both r…

Emily Spencer - Life After the PhD: My Fellowship Application

Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. With less than five months of PhD funding left, Emily found herself doing the opposite of what felt sensible. Instead of locking in on her analysis, she spent two months preparing a postdoctoral fellowship application. In this blog sh…

Emily Spencer - The Hidden Work of Finishing a PhD

Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. In this blog, Emily reflects on being around four months from her planned PhD submission date, and the amount of work still sitting beneath the surface. She writes about the pressure of finishing complex analysis, using a Gantt chart …

Emily Spencer - Overcoming Academic Conference Presentation Anxiety

Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. With her her viva date set and every working hour going into her thesis, Emily has also just returned to conference season for the first time since her maternity leave in 2023. At the International Psychogeriatric Association Congress…