Department of Anthropology
The Parent-Infant Sleep Lab is a research lab of the Department of Anthropology. It is the home for a group of researchers examining various aspects of infant and child sleep and parenting behaviour. The lab itself was opened in 2000, while the research programmes it houses have been in operation since 1995. The Sleep Lab provides opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to become involved in our research, and we welcome enquiries. As our research team has grown our research focus has broadened and we are now involved in projects examining several aspects of adult sleep in addition to that of parents and their children
Information can be found here on completed projects, publications and talks given by members of the Sleep Lab Research Team, together with information for participants on current research projects. The resource section provides links to policy documents and other websites, together with research news and updates.
News
Biology, Infancy & Mothering Conference at Durham Jan 7th 2010
A one day conference for Researchers and Health Professionals interested in mother-infant behaviour and biology was held in Durham at the Calman Learning Centre, Durham University, on Jan 7th 2010. Organised by Professor Helen Ball and her research team the conference featured keynote talks from Dr Nils Bergmann, Professor Wenda Trevathan, Professor Helen Ball and Dr Suzanne Colson. Presentations focussed on new research and its implications for practice. Handouts from each of the talks can be downloaded from the 'Presentations' page of this website. Sadly, due to weather, Dr Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg experienced travel difficulties and was unable to attend. We are grateful to Kerstin for her efforts to try and get here and are sorry to have missed her presentation.
(3 Sep 2009)
Professor Helen Ball will be speaking at the GOLD-10 online conference in May 2010.
Professor Helen Ball will be speaking at the Western Lactation College Annual Conference 'Breastfeeding and Sleep: from confusion to clarity' in Perth, May 2010
Ms Kristin Klingaman will be speaking at the AAA annual conference in Philadelphia in November 2009
Ms Caroline Jones has been awarded an ESRC Overseas University Travel Award to spend 3 months working with Dr Judith Owens at her Pediatric Sleep Clinic, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.
Winds of Change: New South Wales Lactation Conference, Sydney, Australia
Professor Ball was recently invited to be International Keynote Speaker at the above conference on October 30th and 31st in Sydney, Australia where she gave 3 presentations. More details can be found under 'Conferences'. Pictured are the conference organisers and NSW Lactation College directors.
Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP) Invited Symposium
Prof Helen Ball and the Sleep Lab Team were invited to organise a symposium for this year's SRIP conference held at the Copthorne Hotel In Newcastle on Sept 9th & 10th 2010. The theme of the conference was "Working with Inequality and Families at Risk" and our symposium session was titled "Risk-related infant care practices -- perspectives from anthropology". Professor Ball and 3 Sleep Lab PhD students gave presentations in the session which was Chaied by Dr Mike Wailoo of the University of Leicester. Details of the presentations can be found under 'Conferences'. Pictured are Dr Wailoo with the symposium presenters.
NECOT Trial featured in NIHR Research Review Report (see p.9)
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