Welcome to the Sleep Health Lab @ Keele
We are a group of researchers interested in understanding the role of sleep in health and behaviour.
Our work brings together perspectives from health psychology, behavioural science, and implementation research to explore how sleep shapes everyday functioning, mental health, and health-related behaviours.
We focus on generating high-quality evidence and translating this into practical approaches that can improve sleep and support health in real-world settings.
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We work with people with lived experience of sleep and/or mental health difficulties, health and mental health professionals, charities, service leads, researchers, and partner organisations to shape our research and improve sleep support.
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Current projects
REST-UP: Research on Enhancing Sleep Treatments in Usual Practice
Complete: REST-UP is a research programme examining barriers and facilitators to implementing sleep interventions in secondary mental health services. Using mixed methods and theory-driven frameworks, it identifies what helps or hinders uptake, engagement, and delivery, to inform the development of scalable, effective, and context-sensitive sleep support in routine care.
Meta-Analysis of Attrition & Engagement With Digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Insomnia (dCBT-I)
In progress: dCBT-I is effective, but only when people engage with it. This meta-analysis examines attrition and engagement in fully automated interventions, quantifying dropout and adherence, and identifying factors that influence use to inform the development of more efficient, scalable, and impactful digital sleep interventions in practice.
The Sleep & Health Behaviour Network Project
In preparation: Sleep is closely connected to health behaviours, but these relationships are dynamic and interdependent. This project uses a network approach to examine how sleep and behaviours interact over time, identifying key nodes for intervention to inform more targeted, effective strategies for improving sleep and health
Upcoming events
Improving sleep in mental health services: what helps, what hinders, and what next?Date and time is TBDOnline/Hybrid TBD