News

▸ Catherine Taylor has been awarded a Durham Postgrafuate Internship Placement Award to pursue a 12 week internship with Diabetes UK

▸ Prof Helen Ball presented at the British Science Festival, 16th September 2010, in a session on Anthropology & Sleep

▸ Sleep Lab was featured in WRI Engage Newsletter in July 2010 issue

▸ New article by Prof Helen Ball: Ball H.L. (2009) Bed-sharing and co-sleeping. NCT New Digest. 48 October. 22-27

▸ An article about Prof Helen Ball, and our research in Durham, was featured in the May edition of the Newsletter of the Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland [also see www.alcireland.ie]

▸ Our research was recently featured in the article 'Night Vision' in NCT's Newgen Magazine. Winter 2009: 14-16.

▸ NECOT Study featured in NIHR Review Report (see page 9)

▸ NECOT study announced in Newcastle Evening Chronicle: Newborns wanted for study into infant sleeping habits

▸ Shhh...My Child Is Sleeping (in My Bed, Um, With Me) New York Times 23rd October 2007

▸ What’s the big secret, mummy? Few parents admit it, but nearly half of us sleep with our babies, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. The Sunday Times July 22, 2007

▸ Sleeping close to your newborn baby is best for breastfeeding Evening Gazette December 18 2006

▸ Mothers who sleep with new babies 'have more success at breast-feeding' The Times November 29, 2006

▸ Waking up to the benefits of sleeping with your baby The Independent 25 October 2005

▸ Today's Parent (Canada) Is it safe to sleep with your baby September 2005

▸ Sleep easy with your baby right beside you Times Higher Education 12 March 2004

▸ Rest assured? Evening Gazette Jan 22 2004

▸ New cot death claim A leading scientist at a North East university has challenged advice... Evening Chronicle Jan 17 2004

▸ Newborn babies 'safe in parents' bed' The Telegraph 09/09/2003

▸ Bottle-fed babies in parents' bed at risk of cot death The Times February 26, 2003

▸ Breastfed babies 'safer sleepers' BBC News February 23 2003

▸ When tragedy strikes in the night... Evening Gazette February 21 2003

▸ Too close for comfort? The Guardian, Monday January 20 2003

▸ Cot death study looks at twins BBC News February 25 2002

▸ Sleeping with baby explored The Guardian, Thursday December 2 1999

▸ Scientists in bed-sharing study Independent 2.12.1999

▸ Prof Helen Ball was invited to give a keynote talk at the MAINN conference, 8-10 June 2011 in Grange-over-Sands

▸ Puzzling the cot death riddle BBC News, November 9 1998

▸ Babies are safer sleeping in the marital bed Times 1.4.1998

▸ Prof Helen Ball was invited to speak at the Spanish Congress on Breastfeeding in Avila, Spain, 7-9 April 2011

▸ Ms Catherine Taylor has been awarded an ESRC Overseas University Travel Award to spend 3 months working with Prof Miriam Labbok at the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute

▸ Sleeping with baby may make sense Times Higher Education 18 July 1997

▸ Prof Helen Ball was invited to speak at the Journée Internationale de l'allaitement (JIA) in Paris on 25th March 2011

▸ Dr Lane Volpe (PhD May 2010) has been awarded a Durham Business Creation Fellowship for 1 year commencing Jan 2011

▸ Caroline Jones was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine Prize for best student presentation at the British Sleep Society Annual Conference, September 2010

▸ Prof Helen Ball visited the new Celje Health College in Slovenia 6-10th March 2011 on an Erasmus Staff Exchange and spoke at their conference on Infant Sleep

▸ Children 'should sleep with parents until they're five' The Times May 14 2006

▸ Prof Helen Ball spoke at the UNICEF UK BFI Conference in Harrogate on 8-9th December 2010. Talk title = Nurturing as nature intended: an evolutionary perspective on lactation and breastfeeding

▸ Dr Kristin Klingaman (PhD Jan 2010) has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Developmental Science at University of North Carolina

▸ 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.

▸ Prof Helen Ball spoke at the 'Human Nature and Early Experiences' Symposium at Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA on 10-12th October 2010

▸ Caroline Jones and Helen Ball gave presentations in a symposium on Anthropological Perspectives on Child Sleep, organised by Caroline, at the International Paediatric Sleep Association Conference in Rome, Dec 3rd 2010

▸ Prof Helen Ball spoke at the Womb to World — Sleep behaviours Conference in London on 26th October 2010

▸ Dr Eduardo Moya presented initial results from the BradICS study at the 2010 International SIDS Conference in Sydney, 8-10 October

▸ Sharing bed with infants increases risk of cot death The Times January 16 2004

▸ Shared bed raises risk of cot death The Times April 25 2004

▸ Baby girl suffocated in parents' hospital bed The Independent 11 October 2000

▸ Just let me get some sleep Childcare experts have written volumes on the best way to cope with babies who don't sleep. Are they right? Or should parents let nature take its course? The Independent 27 July 2000

▸ Sleep near baby to avoid cot death, say experts The Independent 2 February 2000