Hailey Meaklim

Senior Research Fellow

College of Medicine and Public Health

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Dr Hailey Meaklim [BSc(Hons), Mpsych, PhD, DBSM] is a Senior Research Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI): Sleep Health Flagship Program. Hailey’s research focuses on improving the translation of evidence-based sleep and insomnia treatments into routine mental healthcare. She also seeks to advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying insomnia to enable the development of more targeted and effective treatments.

At just 2.5 years post-PhD, Hailey has authored 36 publications and has been awarded >$8 million in research grants and awards, with $1.075 million in funding as CIA including the prestigious NHMRC Investigator Award. She has received multiple international research awards including the Australasian Sleep Associations New Investigator Award, the U.S Sleep Research Society’s Outstanding Early Investigator Award, and the U.S. Society of Behavioural Sleep Medicine Innovation in Behavioural Sleep Medicine Award.

Hailey is also a registered psychologist and worked for 10 years at leading sleep disorder clinics in Melbourne, including Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre and St Vincent’s Hospital Sleep Centre. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the John Trinder Sleep Laboratory at the University of Melbourne. Hailey was the first Australian psychologist to achieve U.S. Board-Certification in Behavioural Sleep Medicine (DBSM).

Qualifications

PhD in Psychology - Monash University 2023

Registered Psychologist -  AHPRA 2015 to Current

Master of Psychology (Counselling Psychology) - Swinburne University 2015

Bachelor of Science (Honours in Psychology) - University of Melbourne 2007 

Honours, awards and grants

Sleep Research Society (U.S.)                                                                                                                                   

  • Outstanding Early Investigator Award 2024

Australasian Sleep Association                 

  • New Investigator Award 2023
  • Conference Travel Award 2023
  • Best Speaker Award at the Victoria State Meeting 2023
  • Conference travel award 2022

Monash University                                                                                                                           

  • Postgraduate Publication Award 2023

Australian Chronobiology Society                                                                                                 

  • Research Excellence Award 2022
  • Best Presentation Award 2022

U.S. Society of Behavioural Sleep Medicine                                                      

  • Innovation in Behavioural Sleep Medicine 2021
  • Pre-Intern Graduate Project Award 2021
  • Outstanding Student Representative 2020

Sleep Health Foundation  

  • Sleep Hero Award – third place 2020

Australian Graduate Women

  • Highly Commended Fellowship Application 2019

RMIT University School of Health and Biomedical Sciences                

  • Three-Minute Thesis Runner-Up 2018

U.S. Sleep Research Society

  • Skills for Success in Academic Sleep Research and Clinical Practice 2018

Australian Government

  • Australian Research Training Stipend Scholarship 2018-2023
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