10:30-11:00

Coffee/Registration

11:00-11:05

Welcome: Seminar co-organisers

11:05-11:30

Sleep and the pharmaceutical industry

Professor John Abraham (University of Sussex)

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Chair:

Dr Sara Arber

(University of Surrey)

11:30-11:40

Discussant: Professor Jonathan Gabe (University of London)

11:40-12:05

Lay Understandings of Sleep (Hygiene): Does gender matter?

Dr Rob Meadows  (University of Surrey)

12:05-12:15

Discussant: Professor Michael Calnan (University of Bristol)

12:15-13:00

Open discussion papers 1 and 2, plus distributed Wolf-Meyer paper (Click here for Abstract)

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:25

Sleep, health and the dynamics of biomedicine: Sleep apnoea and the uses of CPAP

Dr Tiago Moreira (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

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Chair:
Dr Simon Williams

(University of Warwick)

14:25-14:35

Discussant: Professor Michael Calnan (University of Bristol)

14:35-15:00

Readingsleep through science fiction: A brave new world?

Dr Deborah Steinberg (University of Warwick)

15:00-15:10

Discussant: Dr Simon Williams (University of Warwick)

15:10-15:30

Tea

15:30-15:55

Complementary therapies and sleep: findings from a pilot study

Dr Pamela Lowe, Dr Simon Williams and Dr Frances Griffiths (University of Warwick)

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15:55-16:05

Discussant: Professor Jonathan Gabe (University of London)

16:05-16:35

Open discussion papers 4, 5, 6

16:35-16:45

Concluding comments: Speakers, discussants, co-organisers.