A/Professor Sally Staton is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. Her research investigates how early social and environmental experiences shape the development of sleep in young children. She leads an ARC Discovery Project tracking longitudinal sleep patterns across early childhood and a DECRA Fellowship examining how social transitions, such as entering early childhood education and care (ECEC), affect children’s sleep and family wellbeing. Her earlier research on sleep practices in ECEC has informed evidence-based policy and practice, contributing to changes in national sleep regulations in Australia and influencing practices internationally.

Emily Westwood is a PhD candidate and Fulbright scholar. Her research focuses on children’s environmental light exposure and its relationship to sleep, with a particular focus on actigraphy-based sleep measurement. Her work explores the intersection of light, circadian rhythms, and paediatric sleep. Her research considers the practical challenges of measuring sleep in very young children at home, highlighting the complexities of real-world data collection. Emily’s broader interests lie in measurement science and the methods used to study sleep in children – a ubiquitous yet underrepresented population in normative sleep research.

A/Professor Jasneek Chawla is a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Specialist at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, leads the Kids Sleep Research Group at the Child Health Research Centre, University of Queensland and is president elect for the Australasian Sleep Association. Her research interests include sleep in children with complex disability conditions and developing novel sleep technology for clinical translation. She leads multi-centre MRFF funded research focused on improving the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders in children with disability.