Shafae Ali will be talking about Bedroom Lighting of the Future, and how lighting affects our sleep.

Learning about the function of sleep from Drosophila

with Giorgio F. Gilestro - Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.

In collaboration with The Sapphire Institute for Medical Cannabis Education.

The Next Big Thing, and how you can be part of it

with Pat Connolly - Co-Founder of Supermoon Capital

We are delighted to welcome special guest speaker Pat Connolly to speak about the Night Market™ - also known as the budding sleep economy. Supermoon Capital have launched the world’s first fund focused on sleep. Investing in innovative solutions from all sectors with an aim of improving sleep.

Professor Ellis will introduce us to Insomnia Disorder. Starting with a brief history, the talk will go on to outline the current diagnostic criteria for insomnia. Following, we will be introduced to the theories and models of how insomnia both develops and is maintained, whilst examining the literature as to whether this is the case. Finally, Professor Ellis will provide a brief overview of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), the first line management strategy for insomnia.

Dr. Robertson will discuss Digital Therapeutics in Sleep: New Approaches to Old Problems.

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Professor Hastings will consider the cell-autonomous and neural circuit-level mechanisms that sustain the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (the brain’s central circadian clock) and how it regulates rest, activity and sleep.

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Dr. White will discuss the causes, consequences, and therapies for obstructive sleep apnea.

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.

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.

Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough?

Join our first virtual book club and meet the author of ‘Sleep - a very short introduction’, Professor Russell Foster.

Are the media just one more environmental factor that can affect sleep, or are they something else entirely? This talk explores the extent to which our waking and sleeping lives have (or have not) changed by the introduction by consecutive innovation in the entertainment and communication media.

We are delighted to announce our guest speaker for the September episode is Narcolepsy expert Professor Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford University.

International Sleep Charities' inaugural webinar keynote will be lead by world-renowned neurologist Professor Michael Chee, Director of the Centre for Sleep and Cognition, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore.