52 min
Colin Espie on the Science of Improving Sleep Experts in the Field
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- Mental Health
In this episode I am speaking with Professor Colin Espie. Colin is Professor of Sleep Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford. He founded the Experimental & Clinical Sleep Medicine research programme in the Sleep & Circadian Research Institute and is the Clinical Director of the Oxford Online Programme in Sleep. Colin is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow in the University Department of Psychiatry.
Colin’s expertise and research around sleep is impressive to say the least. His influence on the field of sleep research, particularly the treatment of sleep disorders with Cognitive Behavioural approaches is exceptional both in terms of academic output and getting sleep science to the masses.
In addition to authoring hundreds of academic papers and books, he’s the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders and – as he mentions during the interview plays an essential role in writing the insomnia section of the International Classification of Diseases.
He was awarded the Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award by the Sleep Research Society in 2017, and is the co-founder of Big Health, an academic-start-up hybrid that creates digital mental health solutions with the highest standards of clinical evidence.
We talk about all of these activities, starting from Colin’s early days as a pioneer in behavioural treatments for insomnia right through to Big Health’s free provision of their mental health apps to frontline healthcare workers and what we can all do to improve our sleep during these times of pandemic, extra worry, and upended lifestyles.
You can learn more about Colin's work here:
https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/colin-espie
Find more about Big Health here:
https://www.bighealth.com/
And Sleepio here:
https://www.sleepio.com/
The music on this podcast comes from a mental health awareness track by one of our HELP University first year students and can be heard in full here. Thanks Eugene.
In this episode I am speaking with Professor Colin Espie. Colin is Professor of Sleep Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford. He founded the Experimental & Clinical Sleep Medicine research programme in the Sleep & Circadian Research Institute and is the Clinical Director of the Oxford Online Programme in Sleep. Colin is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow in the University Department of Psychiatry.
Colin’s expertise and research around sleep is impressive to say the least. His influence on the field of sleep research, particularly the treatment of sleep disorders with Cognitive Behavioural approaches is exceptional both in terms of academic output and getting sleep science to the masses.
In addition to authoring hundreds of academic papers and books, he’s the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders and – as he mentions during the interview plays an essential role in writing the insomnia section of the International Classification of Diseases.
He was awarded the Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award by the Sleep Research Society in 2017, and is the co-founder of Big Health, an academic-start-up hybrid that creates digital mental health solutions with the highest standards of clinical evidence.
We talk about all of these activities, starting from Colin’s early days as a pioneer in behavioural treatments for insomnia right through to Big Health’s free provision of their mental health apps to frontline healthcare workers and what we can all do to improve our sleep during these times of pandemic, extra worry, and upended lifestyles.
You can learn more about Colin's work here:
https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/colin-espie
Find more about Big Health here:
https://www.bighealth.com/
And Sleepio here:
https://www.sleepio.com/
The music on this podcast comes from a mental health awareness track by one of our HELP University first year students and can be heard in full here. Thanks Eugene.
52 min