Professor Michael Gradisar

Professor

College of Education, Psychology and Social Work

+61 8 82012324

michael.gradisar@flinders.edu.au

Social Sciences North (358)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Qualifications

B.Sc. (Hons), M.Psyc. (Clin), PhD

Research interests

My current research interests include the prevalence, consequences, and the psychological assessment and treatment of sleep disorders in children and adolescents. I am also running treatment studies for child and adolescent sleep problems through the Child and Adolescent Sleep Clinic. Recently complete PhD students include:

Kate Bartel - Protective and risk factors for adolescent sleep - http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/kate.bartel

Lisa Smith - Parental influences on gaming and sleep - http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/lisajoanne.smith

Cele Richardson - Efficacy of bright light therapy and morning activity for adolescent Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder -http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/cele.richardson

Current PhD students include:

Neralie Cain - Does sleep restriction reduce anxiety in school-aged children? - http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/neralie.cain

Chelsea Reynolds - The role of sleep spindles in adolescents' cognitive performance - http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/chelsea.reynolds

Melanie Heath - Physical activity, sleep and depressed mood in adolescents - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melanie_Heath

Hannah Whittall - Strategies to help parents' tolerance of infant crying -https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah_Whittall

Meg Pillion - The role of bedpartners in the insomnia experience - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Meg_Pillion

Topic coordinator

PSYC9006 Introduction to clinical child psychology

PSYC9007 Counselling and professional issues

Supervisory interests

Adolescent sleep

Circadian rhythms, sleep and insomnia

Delayed sleep phase disorder

Sleep

Treating infant sleep problems

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Paediatric sleep (5)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Paediatric sleep (6)

Associate supervisor: Social anxiety (1), Adolescent refugees (2), Circadian Rhythms (1)

Higher degree by research student achievements

Kate Bartel

Flinders University Best Student Paper Award - DEC 2014

Cele Richardson

Flinders University Best Student Paper Award (February 2018) -

Publications

Professional engagement

Clinical Psychologist, Psychology Board of Australia
Director, Child & Adolescent Sleep Clinic, Flinders University (2006-)
Director of Studies, Clinical Psychology Degrees, Flinders University (2017-)
Editoral Board Member, Sleep Health (2015-), www.sleephealthjournal.org
Guest Editor, Journal of Adolescence, Special Issue on 'Sleep'

Past Roles:

Task Force Member, National Sleep Foundation Poll (USA) (2011)
Working Group, Digital Media and Sleep, National Sleep Foundation and Institute for Digital Media and Child Development
Workshop/Seminar Presenter to Australian Psychological Society (APS), APS Clinical College, Department of Education, Australasian Sleep Association, and various Hospitals, Universities, and Community Health Organisations.
Past Consultant to CSIRO, VicRoads, Raising Children's Network, Parenting Research Centre, Swimming Australia.

Expert for media contact

Adolescents

Biological rhythms

Information technology

Insomnia

Paediatrics

Sleep disorders

Sleep across the lifespan (ie, infants, toddlers, school-aged children, teenagers, adults)

Available for contact via

+61 8 82012324

michael.gradisar@flinders.edu.au

Or contact the media team