Ms Claire Dunbar

Claire Dunbar completed her Bachelor of Psychology Honours in 2019, and her PhD (Clinical Psychology) in 2023, supevised by Professor Leon Lack, Professor Peter Catcheside, Associate Professor Andrew Vakulin and Dr Gorica Micic. Her PhD work was funded from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant obtained by Professor Catcheside and her work focused on the assessment and effect of environmental noise disruption on sleep. Her project provided niche skills in the electroencephalographic measurement of brain activity during sleep and enabled high quality skills in clinical trial management.

She currently holds Post-Doctoral Research Associate status at FHMRI-sleep health on two projects. The first involves detecting driver sleepiness to prevent road trauma. The second focuses on understanding and early detection of sleep difficulties in early career first responder shift work personal. She is also employeed as a psychologist at the FHMRI Sleep Health Clinic focusing on the treatment of behavioural and circadian sleep disorders.