'Sleep, Work Time and Work Ethics'

14th March 2006

University of Warwick

 

• What is the relationship between sleep, work time and work ethics?
• Is sleep the 'forgotten dimension' of the work-life balance?
• How is the sleep/work relationship played out in different types of occupations and organisational contexts?
• Are there cultural as well as social and historical differences in the sleep/work relationship?
• Are corporeal needs and corporate demands being brought into closer alignment through developments such as the workplace nap?

These are some of the questions this sixth and final seminar in the ESRC Sleep and Society seminar series will address.  The provisional programme for the day is as follows/listed below.

         

  Draft programme

 

10:30-11:00	Coffee/Registration
11:00-11:05	Welcome: Seminar co-organisers
11:05-11:35	Work, sleep and flexibility Ulla Forseth (Norway)	Chair: Dr Simon Williams (University of Warwick)
11:35-12:05	‘Sleepicisation’- Is context everything? Dr Carol Wolkowitz (University of Warwick)
12:05-12:35	Health professionals’ night work: consequences for relationships within couples and families Elizabeth Thompson (University of Surrey)
12:35-13:00	Open discussion of morning papers
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	The social construction of sleep and work in the British print news media Dr Simon Williams  (University of Warwick)	Chair: Dr Sara Arber (University of Surrey)
14:30-15:00	Getting smart by napping in class – work ethics of Japanese high school students’ sleep patterns Dr Brigitte Steger (University of Vienna)
15:00-15:15	Tea
15:15-15:45	Disciplining the dormant body: Sleep, religion and work ethics Anja Finger (University of Erfurt)
15:45-16:15	Open discussion of afternoon papers
16:15-16:45	Concluding comments, reflection on the seminar series, future plans: seminar co-organisers.
16.45
Wine reception