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Sleep videos and posters created by PS362 students
Students on the PS362 Sleep and Health module have created an impressive range of videos and infographic posters showcasing their knowledge of sleep science and their ability to communicate it to wider audiences. The overall quality of the work was outstanding, making it difficult to select just a couple examples to highlight.
Winner
Title: Weekend Catch-up Sleep [video linkLink opens in a new window] [posterLink opens in a new window]
Students: Flora Barros Azevedo, Ella Browne, Matilda Cutting, Edie Mellor, Ida Slavina
Runner-Up
Title: Sleep and Sound: A Short Introduction to the Science behind Noise and Sleep [video linkLink opens in a new window] [poster 1] [poster 2Link opens in a new window]
Students: Avneet Babra, Katie Greenwood, Amy Hogg, Ashraf Nawawi Abdul Rahman, Jun Sim Teo
These outstanding submissions were selected for their depth of content, clarity of communication, high production quality, and their success in translating psychological research into engaging, accessible formats for wider audiences.
We warmly congratulate all of the students recognised here and extend our thanks to everyone who contributed such thoughtful and high-quality work.
New paper on Mental Defeat
Out in PAIN : https://journals.lww.com/pain/abstract/9900/temporal_dynamics_of_mental_defeat_in_chronic.1171.aspx
Radio interviews with Fiona McNiven on BBC Radio 4 Women's hour available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vxcy
Student-produced videos & infographics explaining sleep science
Sleep Health Measures
Our new paper on the performance of two leading multidimensional sleep health measures and frameworks, RU_SATED and Sleep Health Index. This is an important output through international collaboration, led by Runtang Meng at Hangzhou Normal University, China.
The paper is out in Sleep Medicine Reviews https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2026.102296 Link opens in a new window
Protocol of a new RCT
Led by collaborators at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, our protocol for a new RCT - testing a stepped care strategy for CBT-I for chronic spinal pain - is out in SLEEP Advances. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpag040
