We have all heard that sleep is important for us, but why? What does it really do for us? Join an interactive seminar on sleep on Tuesday 30 June at 15:00 lead by mc schraefel, Professor of Computer Science and Human Performance. Please register by emailing [email protected].
In the first part of the seminar, Professor schraefel will look at a few of the known ways sleep works, how it affects everything from intelligence to stress, to fat loss and even to how sexy we appear to others.
She’ll put sleep in the context of five fundamentals for life – MOVE – EAT – ENGAGE – COGITATE – SLEEP – and explore how these factors directly affect sleep quality – and vice versa.
What are your questions about sleep?
In the main part of the seminar, Professor schraefel will consider your questions on sleep.
There are some great questions already:
- Why does having a drink wake me up sweating sometimes?
- Is there really such a thing as being a morning or evening person?
- How to turn off at night to get to sleep?
- How come I’m sleeping long enough and still get up tired?
- Can you sleep too much? Do you really need 8 hours?
To make this seminar as meaningful as possible, please add your sleep queries to the ‘We’re Working Out at Home Together’ Team thread on SLEEP before Friday June 26.
The goal of this session is to give you some new ways to think about sleep, so that you can be strategic about how you can bring optimal sleep into your life, and also have the skills to start to debug your own sleep practices.
To help with this process, Professor schraefel will introduce an app you can use to test out a variety of sleep practices – just to have some new skills in your pocket.
A reminder of that Teams link again here.
The Health and Wellbeing team provide a range of advice for staff including team resilience, guidance for vulnerable adults, setting up your home workstation and maintaining positive wellbeing whilst working from home.
