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CHRONOBIOLOGY: Illuminating shift work: Innovative strategies for sleep, nutrition, and team performance in 24/7 operations

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Track 1
Friday, October 10, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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This session brings together some of the leading evidence-based and intervention-based shiftwork research from a cross-section of leading Australian Researchers. Each year, the sleep loss and body clock disruption caused by night work cost the economy $2–3 billion in lost productivity, impaired well-being, and poor health. Current regulations limit sequences of night shifts to a maximum of four in a row. However, recent research suggests this blanket limit may be a well-intentioned but ill-informed policy. As a result, we may be inadvertently increasing, rather than reducing, work-related fatigue.


Speaker

Charli Sargent

The effect of ambient light intensity on circadian adaptation to night work

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Biography

Prof Siobhan Banks
Professor
Unisa

Sleep loss during shiftwork and the impact on team dynamics

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Biography

Dr Charlotte Gupta
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Appleton Institute

Chrononutrition for alertness during shiftwork

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Biography

Greg Roach

Use of personal lighting technologies to aid adaptation to night work

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Assoc Prof Grace Vincent
Associate Professor
CQ University

Healthy from the start

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Biography

Ian Dunican
Melius Consulting

Chair

Biography

Charli Sargent

Chair

Biography

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