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Footsteps Festival
The Wizardry of Sleep Gadgetry: Help, Hindrance or Indifference?
21st July 6.00 – 7.00 pm BST
Join this session with Professor Nicole Tang and colleagues from Warwick University Research Lab on SLEEP and PAIN who will share their experiences using different at-home sleep-tracking gadgets (such as Fitbit and Apple Watch).
They will cover other areas like using sleep diaries to record and analyse sleep patterns. The team will talk about different ways to understand the information collected by these sleep tracking devices and how to use of this information to have a better quality sleep. It turns out that better quality sleep, leads to better physical and mental wellbeing, so living well with pain. So a really important session….
Watch the session for FREE :
https://my.livewellwithpain.co.uk/festival/%cat%25/video-the-wizardry-of-sleep-gadgetry-help-hindrance-or-indifference/
Midlands Health Psychology Network Conference - Best Oral Presentation
#ItTakesGuts
Hello, I am Paige, research assistant of the WITHIN Study at Warwick. This week, in the UK, it is Crohn's and Colitis awareness week and as part of the #ItTakesGuts campaign, I wanted to share my story with you all. Having Ulcerative Colitis (UC) hasn’t always been easy for me to talk about, but I wanted to share some of my experiences to raise awareness of UC, so that people who have it know that they are not alone. Read more.
Special thanksgiving blog
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated in different counties such as America, Canada and Brazil and is often marked with family get-togethers and a large turkey for dinner! Traditionally, it is an occasion where people give thanks for their blessings from the past year. In the UK, we don’t typically celebrate thanksgiving the way people do across the Atlantic, but as it falls during our second national lockdown due to COVID-19, we have been wondering about the concept of giving thanks from a psychological and health perspective. Read more.
Welcome Paige!
A very warm welcome to Paige Karadag, who just joined the WITHIN study team as a Research Assistant on 4th Nov.