Join the International Sleep Charity Book Club
From short, digestible articles and relevant scientific papers, to popular non-fiction and fiction books, the International Sleep Charity Book Club will aim throughout its course to uncover all of the weird, wonderful and informative works related to sleep, elucidating the world of sleep and leave no stone unturned.
Whether or not you have read the selected text, half-read it or anything-in-between need not matter. Join us to learn more about sleep, to listen to some fascinating dialogue or to ask any sleep-related question you like to your fellow future friends in sleep. Sessions will take place via Zoom.
Book Club: The Real Reason Sleep is Important with Dr Neil Stanley
A common sense guide to the real reason sleep is important, the harmful myths about sleep, why we are not in the middle of a sleeplessness epidemic, why technology isn't the future and finally what you can actually do to sleep well.
Book Club: The Promise of Evidence-Based Design: Lessons from The Great Indoors with special guest Emily Anthes
The indoor environment affects our lives in profound, and sometimes surprising, ways. In this talk, science journalist Emily Anthes, author of The Great Indoors, will highlight the connection between houseplants and stress, ventilation and cognitive performance, daylight and mood, and more. And she’ll discuss how evidence-based design can help us create indoor spaces that improve our health and wellbeing, including our sleep.
Sleep - a very short introduction. With special guest Professor Russell Foster.
Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep - it plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing.