The following description was taken from The Inaugural Sleep4Performance Seminar:

The last 18 months have been difficult for many people in the sleep and performance research field, none more than early career researchers, PhD, Masters and Honours students. To support the ever-growing discipline of sleep and performance, we are hosting a free seminar to showcase the emerging scientific work.

Session 1:

  • Dr. Renske Lok – Bright light during wakefulness improves objective and subjective sleep quality: a forced desynchrony study
  • Dr. Jonathon Charest – Impacts of travel distance and travel direction on back-to-back games in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
  • Dr. Madeline Sprajcer – Sleeping together: Understanding the association between relationship type, sexual activity, and sleep
  • Dr. Renske Lok – Gold, silver or bronze: circadian variation strongly affects performance in Olympic athletes

Session 2:

  • Todd Dawson – Career overview, alternative work journeys in the sleep world
  • Ven Dr. Buddharakkhita – Mediation, Sleep and Recovery
  • Dr. Adam Fletcher – Career overview, alternative work journeys in the sleep world