Research Evidence Officer for Alzheimer’s Society UK / Student Representative at the ISTAART Nonpharmacological Interventions PIA. Marija's role as a Research Evidence Officer is to support the work of the organisation by ensuring it’s evidence based. Marija reviews and synthesizes dementia evidence from different sources to inform different projects and processes. Her team supports the three Centers of Excellence funded by the Alzheimer’s Society: IDEAL, PriDem and NIDUS. They collaborate with researchers in dementia care to ensure mutual exchange and support. Marija is also currently a Visiting Research Assistant at UCL, she co-leads a small project aimed to adapt the START (STrategies for RelaTives) intervention for family caregivers in Macedonia in collaboration with Dr. Penny Rapaport and Prof Gill Livingston at UCL and the Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neuroscience in Macedonia.