I am Professor in Psychology, with a PhD in sleep and chronobiology research, and a Master of Biostatistics. From the beginning of my PhD, I have conducted laboratory and field studies with a consistent focus on collaborative research, with key translational aspects. My PhD and early post-doctoral work was supported by the Australian Shiftwork and Workload Consortium, a 10-year collaboration with Australian Rail Industry operators and safety regulators. This work informed fatigue risk management (the over-arching term to describe risks relating to sleep loss and performance impairment in industry) in rail. My subsequent fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania involved designing and conducting a study for the... Read more
About me
I am Professor in Psychology, with a PhD in sleep and chronobiology research, and a Master of Biostatistics. From the beginning of my PhD, I have conducted laboratory and field studies with a consistent focus on collaborative research, with key translational aspects. My PhD and early post-doctoral work was supported by the Australian Shiftwork and Workload Consortium, a 10-year collaboration with Australian Rail Industry operators and safety regulators. This work informed fatigue risk management (the over-arching term to describe risks relating to sleep loss and performance impairment in industry) in rail. My subsequent fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania involved designing and conducting a study for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (the research arm of NASA) investigating methods for measuring stress in astronauts. Since returning to Australia, my research has been largely supported by the CRC for Rail Innovation, the Bushfire CRC, and SafeWorkSA, conducting laboratory and in-workplace studies for rail, emergency services, and health. More recently, I have also worked with mining, construction, and ports, providing research and education to promote fatigue management.
A champion for the importance of sleep for healthy development, I work closely with colleagues in nursing and midwifery, investigating the relationship between sleep during pregnancy and maternal and fetal health. I also have a close collaboration with Resilient Youth Australia, a not-for-profit dedicated to promoting health and learning for school students in Australasia.
I am heavily involved with research student supervision, and training in publishing and other forms of research communication. I was recognised by the Australian Graduate Research Council for excellence in graduate research supervision.
Much of my current work is focused on behavioural coping strategies for remaining healthy despite exposure to sleep loss. In particular, along with colleagues in psychology, nutrition, and activity, we study chronobehaviour – investigating the health impacts, not only of what we do, but when we do it.
I'm Co-Director of the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre (BBB). Follow BBB on Twitter
In our Centre, we have a fabulous Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory. Follow our sleep lab on Twitter.
We also have a Cognitive Aging and Impairment Neurosciences Laboratory (CAIN). Follow CAIN on Twitter.
I am also Editor-In Chief of the new peer-reviewed online journal. “Eat, Sleep, Work”. The Journal showcases high quality research by up-and-coming researchers in lifestyle science, not limited to, but focusing on the relationships between sleep, diet, exercise, work, health and the environment. Eat, Sleep Work welcomes submissions from students and early-career researchers and their mentors.
About me
Australasian Sleep Association (ASA, GP Education Subcommittee)
Working Time Society (ICOH Committee on Shiftwork and Working Time)
Statistics Society of Australia
Healthy Development Adelaide
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Behavioural Science University of South Australia
Master of Biostatistics University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Honours) The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Arts The University of Adelaide
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Living your best day- Optimising activity and diet compositions for dementia prevention, NHMRC - Boosting Dementia Research Grants, 01/12/2019 - 31/12/2023
Shifting Weight using Intermittent Fasting (the SWIFt study): A novel weight loss intervention in shift workers with obesity, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2022
Reduced fetal movements Overnight Sleep Evaluation: The ROSE study, Star Legacy Foundation, 01/07/2020 - 30/06/2022
Altering meal times to reverse the metabolic consequences of shift work, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2020
What 300,000 young Australian students tell us about bullying?, Resilient Youth Australia Limited, 15/03/2019 - 31/12/2019
ISS - Sleep, Fatigue and Performance Data Collection and Analysis in Fixed Wing Pilots, Helicopter Pilots and Technicians, Integrated Safety Support, 01/12/2018 - 30/12/2019
Roster Analysis and Self-Management of Fatigue in Marine Pilots, Flinders Ports Pty Ltd, 15/01/2019 - 30/06/2019
Operational readiness of rural firefighters during bushfire, Bushfire CRC Ltd, 01/10/2010 - 31/03/2014
Research
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
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2015 |
10
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2
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1
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1
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17
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2019 |
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23
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2
1
4
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3
3
8
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2019 |
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1
4
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3
3
2
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2019 |
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2
2
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3
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12
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2019 |
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5
7
38
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2019 |
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12
15
19
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2019 |
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6
4
19
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2019 |
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13
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2019 |
1
1
30
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2019 |
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1
9
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1
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6
17
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3
23
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3
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9
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2
9
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11
9
32
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1
4
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2018 |
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6
4
25
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10
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9
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23
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3
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2018 |
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7
6
125
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5
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5
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5
137
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2018 |
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42
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3
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2017 |
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18
9
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2017 |
33
23
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7
7
4
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2017 |
7
6
2
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2017 |
14
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3
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6
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24
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10
1
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11
7
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2016 |
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1
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9
39
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9
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5
238
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27
62
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9
167
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6
1
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9
246
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7
5
11
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6
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14
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26
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12
3
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6
2
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22
17
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8
8
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2012 |
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3
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2012 |
23
21
1
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2012 |
10
9
1
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3
2
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2012 |
53
49
115
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16
14
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2012 |
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118
110
218
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2011 |
19
16
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2011 |
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2
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2011 |
104
91
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2011 |
Open access
39
36
1
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2011 |
12
7
3
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2011 |
37
32
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2011 |
5
4
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2011 |
27
24
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28
23
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2011 |
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26
25
7
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10
9
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6
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8
8
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15
15
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13
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60
62
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13
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39
33
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31
24
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22
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60
31
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24
15
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12
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2008 |
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Research
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Cattani Consulting Pty Ltd | AUSTRALIA |
Central Queensland University | AUSTRALIA |
Cornell University | UNITED STATES |
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation) | AUSTRALIA |
Dalhousie University | CANADA |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Defence Science and Technology Group | AUSTRALIA |
Department of Defence | AUSTRALIA |
Emory University | UNITED STATES |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
G-Kracht | NETHERLANDS |
Global Innovations for Reproductive Health and Life | UNITED STATES |
Government of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Institutes for Behavior Resources, Inc | UNITED STATES |
Integrated Safety Support | AUSTRALIA |
Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
Massey University | NEW ZEALAND |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
Murdoch University | AUSTRALIA |
Nambour General Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
National Jewish Health | UNITED STATES |
National Transportation Safety Board | UNITED STATES |
Queensland Institute of Medical Research | AUSTRALIA |
Repatriation General Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
Resilient Youth Australia Limited | AUSTRALIA |
RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
Robinson Research Institute | AUSTRALIA |
Royal Adelaide Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
Royal Hobart Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
St John of God | AUSTRALIA |
Still Aware | AUSTRALIA |
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | UNITED STATES |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | UNITED STATES |
University of Los Angeles Medical Centre | UNITED STATES |
University of Michigan | UNITED STATES |
University of New England | AUSTRALIA |
University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of Victoria | CANADA |
Walter Reed Army Institute for Research | UNITED STATES |
Washington State University | UNITED STATES |
Women's and Children's Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
Zoos Victoria | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision AwardAustralian Council of Graduate Research |
2017 |
MemberWorking Time Society (WTS) |
2017 |
MemberSleep Research Society (SRS) |
2017 |
MemberWorld Federation of Sleep Research Societies (WFSRS) |
2017 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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A psychological understanding of slow fashion in Australia | Current |
Acute Stress, cortisol awakening response and cognitive performance in shift workers. | Current |
An Evaluation of Fatigue Risk Management Systems among Airlines in South Asia | Current |
Shiftwork, circadian rhythms, sleep, and diet methods for measuring and shifting body timing systems | Current |
Spatial attention and alertness in healthy adults | Current |
The association between 24-hour time-use composition, cognition and neurophysiological correlates of cognition in older Australians | Current |
The temporal patterns of eating and relationships with diet quality in general and shift work populations in Australia: Development and utilisation of a chrononutrition questionnaire | Current |
Biodiversity conservation is everybody’s business: persuasive messaging for zoos based on principles of psychology and marketing | Completed |
Cognitive performance, subjective sleepiness, and ratings of hunger and gastric upset in shiftworkers and simulated shiftwork | Completed |
Conservation psychology and its application to the survival of orangutans (Pongo abelii and Pongo pygmaeus) | Completed |
Controlled flight into emotional terrain | Completed |
Dietary countermeasures to reduce the impact of alternate shift schedules on glucose metabolism, mood state, sleepiness and performance | Completed |
Measuring the effects of new technology on situation awareness in train driving | Completed |
Metacognition of sleep and sleepiness in children, adolescents and young adults | Completed |
New methods for harnessing the unconscious: testing metaphor to generate ideas | Completed |
Shiftwork and eating behaviour | Completed |
Sleep inertia during split duty schedules and following short night-time naps | Completed |
Sleep, wake and the internal body clock: homeostatic and circadian interactions on performance | Completed |
The associations between sleep and health in adolescence | Completed |
The circadian and homeostatic influences on sleep quantity and quality | Completed |
The effects of sleep loss, environmental factors and individual differences on mood | Completed |
The impact of insufficient sleep on healthy functioning in men | Completed |
The Impact of split shifts and naps on sleep, performance and mood | Completed |
The psychology of shark conservation | Completed |