CHRONOBIOLOGY: Illuminating shift work: Innovative strategies for sleep, nutrition, and team performance in 24/7 operations
Tracks
Track 1
| Friday, October 10, 2025 |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Details
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 PMBiography
Prof Siobhan Banks
Professor
Unisa
Sleep loss during shiftwork and the impact on team dynamics
3:45 PM - 4:00 PMBiography
Dr Charlotte Gupta
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Appleton Institute
Chrononutrition for alertness during shiftwork
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Greg Roach
Use of personal lighting technologies to aid adaptation to night work
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
Assoc Prof Grace Vincent
Associate Professor
CQ University
Healthy from the start
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Ian Dunican
Melius Consulting
Chair
Biography
Charli Sargent
Chair
Biography
