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Sleep Health Measures

Fri, 01 May 2026 08:55:09 GMT

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

Protocol of a new RCT

Fri, 01 May 2026 08:47:00 GMT

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

Congratulations to Dr Pawley!

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:11:09 GMT

Congratulations to Michaela Pawley on passing her PhD viva! Michaela’s PhD showed that specific sleep behaviours in adolescence are meaningful risk factors for later self-harm and reported suicide attempts, making sleep health a potential target for prevention.

New paper by Michaela Pawley

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:07:00 GMT

Hot off the press! Click here for a summary or here for the full paper (open access).

Student successes!

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:16:07 GMT

Very happy that students in the lab are thriving and enjoying what they do! Occasionally, their daily grind gets recognised.

Congratulations to :

- Michaela Pawley for winning the PGR day best presentation award

- Peter To for securing funds to host and lead a R-workshop

- Lauren Wilkinson for winning the William Campbell Prize at the British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Newport, Wales

What's it like to be a Data Impact Fellow?

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:05:00 GMT

Michaela Pawley wrote down her thoughts in her first blog post as a UK Data Service Impact Fellow. She reflects on her clinical and academic background, current PhD research, and future plans to expand her impact beyond academia.

What counts as a good night’s sleep? A NPR radio interview

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:21:00 GMT

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Nicole Tang about sleep quality and why it's difficult to define and measure.

Prof Tang talks to the New Scientist

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:21:00 GMT

In response to our society's obsession about sleep, the New Scientist has published a series of articles exploring a more holistic view on the topic (22nd -24th Jan , 2025). Professor Tang spoke to Sophie Bushwick and was featured in the articles below:

"Highlight: We often obsess about nighttime routines for good sleep, but mounting evidence shows that what we do during our waking hours is also important – a more holistic view that could ease the modern pressure to create a perfect environment for when our heads hit the pillow"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535272-800-why-sleep-quality-is-so-important-and-so-difficult-to-measure/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535273-000-what-nine-sleep-researchers-do-to-get-their-best-nights-rest/

PBAS mediates the pain-insomnia link

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:03:00 GMT

Pain often goes hand in hand with trouble sleeping. Previously, our lab found that people with chronic pain tend to think about their sleep through the lens of pain and developed the PBAS to measure pain-related beliefs and attitudes about sleep (https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.6130).

Thanks to our colleagues in Korea (led by Prof Seockhoon Chung), we now also know that PBAS mediates the association between pain and insomnia. Using the Korean PBAS, they found the concept useful in explaining the pain-insomnia link in Asian countries/cultures.

New paper published in Behavioural Sleep Medicine: https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2024.2441786

Prof Tang talks to BBC Future about sleep

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:31:00 GMT

Need a good night's sleep? Try changing how you think about it

Our hectic modern lives can often leave us feeling sleep-deprived, but what if much of a good night's sleep was down to our state of mind?

Interviewed and written by Amanda Ruggeri for BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241014-need-a-good-nights-sleep-trying-changing-how-you-think-about-it