News

New peer-reviewed article on sleep-tracking

The project’s new article, “Quantified Sleep: Self-Tracking Technologies and the Reshaping of …

Sleep and Ageing: reflections on the Reimagining Sleep online workshop

A blog post by Dr James Rákóczi, Research Assistant On Wednesday 19th April 2023, the Understanding …

Talk at Dreamscape | Public Program

19th May, Polo del ‘900 in Turin, Italy As part of the public program connected to Dreamscape,…

Video about the Reimagining Sleep workshops

The first phase of the Reimagining Sleep project – a creative workshop series – is now c…

Sleep and the Menopause: reflections on the Reimagining Sleep online workshop

A blog post by Dr James Rákóczi, Research Assistant On Friday 3rd March 2023, the Understanding and …

Blog post for the Society of Occupational Medicine

What can cultural production tell us about sleep and work? In this invited blog post for the Society…

World Sleep Day roundtable at the Sociability of Sleep

Hot Takes: Sleep Equity and Climate Change For World Sleep Day, Diletta De Cristofaro will be modera…

Essay in New Humanist

“Demons of Sleep” This review of Alice Vernon’s Night Terrors: Troubles Sleep and the St…

New Event: On Dreams Roundtable

On 27th January, Dr Diletta De Cristofaro will be taking part in the On Dreams roundtable at Istitut…

Registration Open for Reimagining Sleep Workshop Series

Dr Diletta De Cristofaro shortlisted for New Generation Thinkers 2023

Dr Diletta De Cristofaro has made the shortlist for this prestigious talent scheme with a pitch for …

New Wellcome Award

Dr Diletta De Cristofaro has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Enrichment Public Engagement gra…

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New publication in The Posthumanist: A Reading Guide to the Sleep Crisis

In this reading guide, Diletta De Cristofaro introduces debates around the sleep crisis and some boo…

Writing Sleep Salon – video now available

As part of the Sleep Salons series hosted by the Sociability of Sleep (Université de Montréal & …

META Lecture

On 27th April, 1pm CEST, Dr Diletta De Cristofaro will be delivering a META lecture at Politecnico d…

Sleep and Digital Health conference – programme now available

The programme for “Sleep and Digital Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” is now avai…

New Publication: Article in The Week

The counterproductive promise of a ‘sleep goal’ In this opinion piece in The Week, Dr Di…

Upcoming Talks at Conferences

In April-May 2022, Dr Diletta De Cristofaro will be presenting conference papers about the project a…

Sleep and Digital Health Online Conference

The project’s conference on the theme of Sleep and Digital Health will take place online on 27…

Highlights video of Sleep Stories and the Science of Sleep event now available

Watch the video collecting highlights of the launch event of Sleep Stories at Durham Book Festival 2…

Upcoming talk at The Sociability of Sleep’s Sleep Salons

On 23rd March, 12-1:30 pm ET, Dr Diletta De Cristofaro will be giving a talk about “Writing Sl…

Sleep Stories Episode Three: Encroach by Andrew McMillan

The third and final episode of “Sleep Stories”, a podcast series co-commissioned in collaboration wi…

Sleep Stories Episode Two: The Night Watch by Jenn Ashworth

The second episode of “Sleep Stories”, a podcast series co-commissioned in collaboration with Durham…

Sleep Stories Episode 1: Daffodilly Dreams by Salena Godden

The first episode of “Sleep Stories”, a podcast series co-commissioned in collaboration …

Sleep Stories and the Science of Sleep

Roundtable event at Durham Book Festival 2021 Saturday 9 October, 8-9pm BST (available to watch on d…

Talk at MEETmeTONIGHT 2021

An online public talk for the Italian edition of the European Researchers’ Night The talk will…

Sleep Stories at Durham Book Festival 2021

An exclusive commission inspired by the project We are delighted to be working with three leading Br…

Making a Being Human Café

Forty Winks Café as case study for organising a successful Being Human Festival Café In this case st…

Making Sleep: New Insights for a New Public Health?

On 7-8 July 2021, Prof Jason Ellis and Dr Diletta De Cristofaro will be speaking at “Making Sl…

Public Lecture at The Lit&Phil

On 10th June 2021, Dr Diletta De Cristofaro will deliver an online public lecture at The Lit&Phi…

“Sleep Tight”, article in Costco Connection Magazine

The project was featured in “Sleep Tight”, an article by Kelly Rose Bradford in Costco C…

Blog Post in The Polyphony

December 2020: Dr Diletta De Cristofaro introduces the project in The Polyphony, Conversations Acros…

Talk at Northumbria University’s Institute of Humanities

On 9th December 2020, Dr Diletta De Cristofaro will be giving a talk at Northumbria University&#8217…

Forty Winks Café at Being Human Festival 2020

On 19th November 2020, we will be delivering an online event at the UK’s only festival of the …