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Institute of Health

Seminar 3: 'Children and sleep'

Monday 27th JUNE 2005
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK


This third ESRC seminar in the ‘Sleep and Society’ seminar series will examine the salience and significance of sleep in children’s lives, taking a child-centred perspective and approach. Key themes and issues addressed will include cross-cultural variations in children’s sleeping patterns, practices and bed time rituals, the role and function of children’s night lights, the negotiation and management of children’s sleep across the public/private divide, whether or not children are getting ‘enough’ sleep, the impact of social, psychological and biological factors on children’s sleep quantity and quality, and the relationship between parents and children’s sleep.
10:30-11:00  

Coffee/Registration
11:00-11:05 Welcome: Seminar co-organisers
11:05-11:25
Children’s sleep: lessons for/from the sociology of childhood

Dr Simon Williams and Dr Pamela Lowe (University of Warwick)

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Chair

Dr Jenny Hislop (University of Surrey)

 
11:25-11:35
Discussant: Dr. Nick Lee (University of Keele)
11:35-11:55
An exploration of children’s sleeping and waking practices: findings from an interdisciplinary pilot study

Dr Jo Moran Ellis (University of Surrey)

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11:55-12:05 Discussant: Dr. Geraldine Brady (Coventry University)
12:05-12:25
Bedtime around the World: Children, Families and Sleep

Professor Eyal Ben Ari (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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12:25-12:35 Discussant:  Dr Christopher Pole (University of Leicester)
12:35-13:00
General discussion of morning papers
13:00-14:00

Buffet lunch
14:00-14:20
Are children getting ‘enough’ sleep?

Dr Luci Wiggs (University of Oxford)

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Chair:
Dr Simon Williams
University of Warwick

 
14:20-14:30
Discussant: Professor Ed Peile (University of Warwick)
14:30-14:50
‘Let there be light’: Children, night time and night lights

Professor Mary Boulton (Oxford Brookes Uninversity)

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14:50-15:00
Discussant: Dr Pamela Lowe (University of Warwick)
15:00-15:15 Tea
15:15-15:35
The impact of teenagers on parents sleep

Sue Venn (University of Surrey)
15:35-15:45
Discussant: Dr Phil Mizen (University of Warwick)
15:45-16:15
General discussion of afternoon papers
16:15-16:30
Concluding comments: Speakers, discussants, co-organisers.

VENUE: Room 17a, Physical Sciences Building, University of Warwick