Professor Barbara Galland (Group leader)
Professor Barbara Galland heads the Paediatric Sleep Research Group. Her research interests include studying the effects of sleep and breathing disorders in children and adolescents on behaviour, cognition, and academic performance. She also has an interest in the role sleep plays in overweight and obesity, sleep-related disturbances in children with type 1 diabetes, and the biological mechanisms underpinning Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI).
Current projects
- Sleep and sluggish cognitive tempo
- Sleep in children with type 1 diabetes
- Sleep and obesity: Mechanisms
- Behaviours across the 24 hour day
Key people
- Professor Barbara Galland Group leader
- Dr Sara Boucher Postdoctoral Fellow
Postgraduate students
Professor Galland's students have often received prestigious Freemasons Fellowships or Dunbar Scholarships while undertaking their study. These scholarships have allowed them flexibility in their research and personal lives.
- Lauren Miller PhD
- Mona Elbalshy PhD
- Silke Morrison PhD, Department of Medicine
- Rosalie Jackson PhD, Department of Medicine
- Bradley Brosnan PhD, Department of Medicine
- Taiwo Adebowale PhD, Department of Medicine
- Leigh Sanson BSc (Hons), Department of Psychology
Past studies
- Sleep disordered breathing and academic performance
- Targeting Obesity Through Sleep (TOTs)
- Teenage sleep and screens
Collaborations
Professor Galland is involved in collaborative research with many other people and groups in the University of Otago. Some of these collaborations are listed below.
- Dr Elizabeth Schaughency Department of Psychology
- Professor Rachael Taylor Department of Medicine
- Associate Professor Patrick Dawes Department of Surgical Sciences
- Professor Mauro Farrella Faculty of Dentistry
- Associate Professor Ben Wheeler Department of Women's and Children's Health
- Dr Kim Meredith-Jones Department of Medicine
- Dr Aimee Ward Department of Medicine
- Dr Rose Richards Dunedin School of Medicine
Alumni
Read about Professor Galland's past students, some of whom have gone on to do amazing things in New Zealand and around the world.
- Katie Appleyard PhD
- Sally Baddock PhD
- Jessie Bennison MSc
- Grace Macaulay (nee Boston) BMedSc(Hons)
- Alice Cox MDiet
- Amelia Gill PhD
- Liam Guthrie BSc(Hons) (Neuroscience)
- Rebecca Harding PhD
- Ghassan Idris PhD
- Ghassan Idris DClinDent student, Dentistry
- Rebekah Luo PhD
- Sarah Maessen PhD
- Amanda Mulock PGDipHealSc
- Mai Phetcharoaen MDiet
- Abby Rhodes BSc(Hons) (Neuroscience)
- Rachel Sayers MHealSc
- Laurelle Smith PhD
- Ryan Sixtus MPhysEd
- Evan Tan PhD
