Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Workshop
August 15-16, 2019 - Sleep and Society: Continuity and chaos across the life course Workshop to be held in Brisbane, QLD
August 15-16, 2019 - Sleep and Society: Continuity and chaos across the life course Workshop to be held in Brisbane, QLD
Date / Time
9:00 am 15/08/2019 -
5:00 pm 16/08/2019
Room
Seminar 201, Level 2 - Cycad Building #1018, Long Pocket. The University of Queensland
Location
UQ Long Pocket Campus, Meiers Road, Indooroopilly QLD, Australia
Sleep is a social issue. Across the life course sleep is foundational for behavioural regulation, social wellbeing, and learning. Culture, social circumstance, work patterns, school, childcare and age care patterns all present significant factors affecting the duration, pattern and regularity of sleep. Sleep is arguably a meta-index of social functioning.
Objectives: This workshop brings together a diverse field of established and emerging research leaders, policy makers and industry stakeholders, to address sleep security as a social science priority. The attendees have strong competencies in sleep science and social policy, and have each led developments in new ways to bring their science to the community and to the policy landscape. The aim is to establish a research agenda to directly inform policy and practices that address current and emerging potential to understand sleep as a social index.
The specific objectives of this workshop are to:
Establish sleep as a meta-index of social functioning and focus of social science study.
Share new measurement tools, approaches, and solutions to social disparities and disadvantage.
Explore avenues for sharing of evidence for science, practice, and community benefit.
Develop a policy statement for sleep and sleep security as a social science priority.
Sleep as a social science priority