Senior Research Fellow, Sleep Psychology
College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Hannah Scott (BPsyc(Hons), PhD) is a Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, and co-Lead of the Clinical Sleep Health research group at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI): Sleep Health Flagship program. Her research involves investigating the use of digital technologies to better assess and manage sleep health and sleep disorders. At 5 years post-PhD, Dr Scott has authored 70 publications, 5 book chapters, and 13 successful research funding applications totaling over $2,500,000. Dr Scott is a co-inventor of THIM: the first wearable device that tracks and treats chronic insomnia. Dr. Scott is a Director on the Board of the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA): Australia’s peak sleep advocacy body. She has received multiple awards including the Flinders University Vice-Chancellor's Early Career Researcher Award, the ASA New Investigator Award and ASA Helen Bearpark Award, and the Society of Behavioural Sleep Medicine Fellow Rising Star Award.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), August 2020
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) - First Class, 2016
2025 College of Medicine and Public Health John Chalmers Travel Fellowship
2024 Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health Early Career Researcher Award
2024 Australasian Sleep Association Helen Bearpark Award
2022 Flinders University Vice Chancellor's Early Career Researcher Award
2021 Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine Fellow Rising Star Award
2020 Australasian Sleep Association New Investigator Award
2019 South Australia Women in Innovation Young Innovator Finalist
2018-2019 Australasian Sleep Association Student Travel Grant
2018 Adelaide Sleep Retreat Young Investigator Award
2018 AMP Amplify Ignite Finalist
2017-2020 Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
2016 Flinders University Vice-Chancellor's Honours Thesis Excellence Medal
2013-2016 Chancellor's Letters of Commendation
Honours student supervisor, 2017 - present
PhD student supervisor, 2021 - present
Journal Editor Positions:
Academic Editor for Journal of Sleep Research, 2026 - present
Editorial Advisory Board member for SLEEP Advances, 2025 - present
Committee Positions:
Steering Committee member of the World Sleep Society Consumer Health Technology Taskforce, 2026 - present
Chair of the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA) Membership Committee and ASA Board Member, 2024 - present
Co-chair of the ASA Network of Early Career Sleep Researchers in Training (NEST), 2020 - 2024
Co-chair of the ASA Insomnia and Sleep Health Council, 2020 - 2022
Early-career researcher (ECR) representative on the ASA South Australian branch committee, 2019 - 2024