MAKING SLEEP: NEW INSIGHTS FOR A NEW PUBLIC HEALTH?

ONLINE EVENT WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

7-8 July 2021

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OUR SPONSOR INTRODUCTION

Whilst sleep is clearly important for health Organising committee: The current landscape is also complex and and wellbeing, current public health Prof Rob Meadows, University of Surrey rapidly changing – with sleep presently responses often simply advise people to Prof Christine Hine, University of Surrey caught in a perfect storm of anxiety, sleep more. For example, it has been Prof Jason Ellis, Northumbria University technological innovation and uncertainty. suggested that the UK Government are Digital technologies, for example, now “planning to issue guidance on how much Contributors: prioritise a form of ‘algorithmic’ sleep The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at sleep people should be getting every night” Louise Berger which does not seem to fit easily into the University of Surrey sponsors workshops (BBC News, 2019). According to a leaked Derk-Jan Dijk historical notions of expertise or the and Fellowships at the ‘cutting edge’ of Department of Health & Social Care (2019) Jason Ellis established dualism of ‘subjective’ and science, engineering, social science and the Green paper, the Government will review Michael Grandner ‘objective’ sleep. These shifts and humanities. Through this scheme the the evidence on sleep and health with the Christine Hine developments transcend disciplinary Institute fosters interdisciplinary view to informing the case for guidance on Jeff Mann specific voices and sociologists, sleep collaborations and encourages a flow of hours of sleep. This resonates with calls Rob Meadows scientists, practitioners, public health international scholars to visit, enjoy their from the UK Royal Society for Public Health, Diletta De Cristofaro specialists all need to come together and stay at Surrey and leave behind excellent for a ‘slumber number’ to be published Martyn Pickersgill critically reflect. ideas and innovations. which makes it easier for individuals to

know how much they should be sleeping Administrative support: The proposed workshop therefore brings ias.surrey.ac.uk (Royal Society for Public Health, 2018). The Vicki Blamey, Mirela Dumic and Louise together scholars and practitioners from a United States National Sleep Foundation Jones, University of Surrey range of different disciplines to debate and has also recently issued age-specific sleep discuss how we might move beyond duration recommendations (Hirshkowitz et traditional confines and work towards a al., 2015). new national sleep strategy.

These approaches appear limited. For one, The workshop will: sleep is liminal and beyond the limits of voluntary agency. For another, sleep is (i) Map the complexity of sleep across linked to social position. Grandner (2017), different domains (such as in the clinic, for example, highlights how race, ethnicity, through wearable technologies art, culture, employment, neighbourhood, literature and public health). socioeconomic status, marriage and the family environment all impact on an (ii) Use this as an evidence base to explore individual’s sleep. new conceptual frames and revisit fundamental questions - such as what is Moving forward requires a fundamentally sleep, how should we sleep, how should we different approach. Previous discussions of measure sleep? sleep and public health have tended to be siloed within disciplinary domains, (iii) Explore the implications therein for a exacerbating uncertainties and limiting new public health for sleep meaningful dialogue.

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PROGRAMME

DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY 7TH JULY DAY 2 – THURSDAY 8TH JULY MAPPING THE COMPLEXITIES OF SLEEP IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE AGENDAS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

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14:30 Introduction — Where Now? Rob Meadows, Christine Hine,

09:30 Introduction —Rob Meadows, Christine Hine, Jason Ellis Jason Ellis

09:45 The Clinic: Louise Berger, Royal Surrey County Hospital 14:40 Keynote: Michael Grandner, University of Arizona

Sleep, Health and Society: Bringing a Socio-Ecological Framework Out

10:15 Literature: Diletta De Cristofaro, Northumbria University of the Lab and Into the World

15:10 Break 10:45 Break

15:30 Keynote: Martyn Pickersgill, University of Edinburgh 11:00 Tech: Jeff Mann, SleepJunkies Sleep, Science, and Critical Public Health?

11:30 Online Spaces: Christine Hine, University of Surrey 16:00 Break 12:00 Public Health: Rob Meadows, University of Surrey 16:15 Future agendas for public health and sleep: how to work with sleep 12:30 Break in the real world Facilitated discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk (University of Surrey), Jason 13:15 General Discussion - revisiting fundamental questions Ellis (Northumbria University)– followed by wider contributions and open forum 14:00 Close 17:30 Close

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BIOGRAPHIES

Louise Berger Derk-Jan Dijk Jason Ellis Michael Grandner Royal Surrey County Hospital University of Surrey Northumbria University University of Arizona Director, Surrey Sleep Research Centre Jason is Professor in Psychology at Louise is a qualified Occupational therapist Dr. Grandner is the Director of the Sleep and Derk-Jan is Professor of Sleep and Physiology Northumbria University and Director of the with extensive experience in mental and Health Research Program at the University of and has conducted research on human sleep Northumbria Centre for Sleep Research. He physical health settings. She leads the Arizona, Director of the Behavioral Sleep since 1983. He has published more than 240 has worked in sleep medicine for around 20 Insomnia Service at the Royal Surrey County Medicine Clinic at the Banner-University original reports, reviews and editorials in the years and is a qualified Somnologist -Expert Hospital Sleep Clinic. Louise has an Medical Center, and an Associate Professor area of sleep research. He was the Editor in in Behavioural Sleep Medicine from the undergraduate degree in Psychology and a in the Department of Psychiatry at the UA Chief of the Journal of Sleep Research (2010- European Sleep Research Society, a strong personal interest in behaviour change College of Medicine, with joint appointments 2016) and served as Chair of the Scientific chartered psychologist under the BPS and a and coaching – and draws on all of this in her in the Departments Committee of the European Sleep Research Practicing Health Psychologist under the clinical sleep practice and delivery of CBT for of Medicine, Psychology (UA College of Society. He has received the Distinguished Health and Care Professions Council. He has Insomnia. Louise has recently launched a Science), Nutritional Sciences (College of Scientist Award from the Sleep Research examined the impact of novel adjunct podcast on insomnia (here). Agriculture and Life Sciences), and Clinical Society (USA) and been awarded a Wolfson- therapies, the influence of social factors on Translational Science. In addition, he is a Royal Society Research Merit Award. adherence, and the effective delivery of CBT- faculty member of I in complex cases and environments. He has the Neuroscience and Physiological Diletta De Cristofaro worked within the National Health Service in Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Northumbria University the United Kingdom, delivering CBT-I to Programs. He is Certified in Behavioral Sleep individuals with a range of physical and Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Diletta is a Wellcome Trust-funded Research psychological conditions and has served on Medicine and is a Diplomate in Behavioral Fellow, working on the project “Writing the the editorial boards of Behavioral Sleep Sleep Medicine by the Board of Behavioral Sleep Crisis: 24/7 Capitalism and Neoliberal Medicine and Sleep Health. Sleep Medicine. He has published over 175 Subjectivity”. This is the first to explore articles and chapters on issues relating to cultural engagements with the sleep crisis, sleep and health and his work has been namely, the sense that contemporary society cited over 8,000 times. He is associate editor is chronically sleep-deprived. More of the journal Sleep Health and serves on the information can be found here. Diletta is an editorial boards of the expert in the contemporary apocalyptic journals SLEEP, Journal of Clinical Sleep imagination. Her book on the topic can be Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Behavioral Sleep found here. Medicine, Journal of Sleep Research, Frontiers in Neurology: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, Sleep Advances, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and other journals. He has received awards and honors for his work from the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, Sleep Research Society, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, American Heart Association, Population Association of America, Sleep Research Network, and other groups. He is an elected fellow of the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

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Rob Meadows Martyn Pickersgill Christine Hine Jeff Mann University of Surrey, Sociology University of Edinburgh University of Surrey, Sociology Sleep Junkies

Rob has been involved in sleep research for Martyn holds a Personal Chair in the Christine is internationally recognized for her Jeff is founder and editor of over 20 years. He was the first sociologist Sociology of Science and Medicine. He is also pioneering role in the formulation of SleepJunkies.com, a website that has been elected to the British Sleep Society Executive Co-Director of Research in the Medical qualitative methods for research into online shining a spotlight on sleep since 2012. Sleep committee (serving two elected terms) and School's Usher Institute. In 2020, Martyn culture. Virtual Ethnography (2000) is Junkies is an independent, research-based has authored over 40 articles and chapters - became Co-Director of a new Wellcome recognized as a seminal text, formulating an blog and community that's dedicated to including 5 papers reprinted in an Trust PhD Programme in 'One Health Animal ethnographic approach to the Internet that educating and raising awareness about all international volume on critical concepts in Models of Disease: Science, Ethics and recognizes it as both cultural site and aspects of sleep health. SleepJunkies.com sleep. His work has largely focused on (i) Society', which brings together expertise cultural artefact. More recently, has gone on to position itself as a leading couples’ sleep; (ii) inequalities in sleep; (iii) from the social and biomedical sciences. In Ethnography for the Internet (2015) and distinctive voice – offering independent, recovery from addiction and sleep; and (iv) 2018, he co-founded the Centre for develops a methodological approach to the evidence-led articles, interviews, podcasts, technologies and sleep. He was part of the Biomedicine, Self & Society where he design of ethnographic studies that news and positions. As well as following the team which developed the Substance Use remains an Associate Director. Martyn's recognizes the significance of the Internet as wider cultural trends in sleep, including the Sleep Scale (here), which has now been research has focused primarily on the social, an embedded and embodied feature of burgeoning sleep industry, SleepJunkies.com incorporated in the SURE Recovery app legal and ethical dimensions of biomedicine everyday life. She was Co-Investigator with has a particular focus on the consumer sleep (see here). Current work focuses on public and the health professions. In particular, his Meadows on the Wellcome funded project technology industry. health and sleep and includes a forthcoming work has considered the sociologies of “Social Media and Sleep: Ethical Agendas in co-authored book titled TechnoSleep: (epi)genetics, neuroscience, and mental the Digital Age” – and is currently working on Frontiers, Fictions and Futures (Palgrave). health. This has been supported through a an APEX funded project exploring ethical range of funders as PI/Co-PI/Co-I, including challenges in dementia care. the AHRC, ESRC, MRC, British Academy,

Leverhulme Trust, and Wellcome Trust. He is currently engaged in research on biomedicine and society in the UK and the US, and with collaborators in the context of Australia, China, Japan, and Malawi.

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