Chair-Elect of the Practitioner Committee: Dr. Jason Ellis
Committee role:
I currently shadow the chair of the committee and we are exploring ways of strengthening the links between education in health psychology and its practical application in the workplace. Additionally, we are looking at ways to promote jobs for Health Psychologists and Health Psychology in general within the NHS.
Job title at place of work:
Reader in Psychology / Director of the Northumbria Sleep Centre
Broadly, my research is in the area of sleep and sleep disorder medicine. There are five main streams to my research under this framework: 1) looking at the genetic, biological, behavioural, and psychosocial predictors of both acute, stress-related, insomnia and chronic insomnia. 2) examining the relationship between biological sleep time and social sleep time and the consequences on daytime performance. 3) looking at the causes of a discrepancy between objective and subjective jet-lag, 4) determining the role of food in circadian rhythm disorders, 5) exploring the position that sleep medicine occupies in health-care and in the education of health-care practitioners.
Contact Jason: jason.ellis@northumbria.ac.uk
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