Two PhD Scholarships - Understanding the impact of on-call work on sleep, fatigue, and safety
Are you ready to shape the future of safety in essential workforces? Join a cutting-edge research team at CQUniversity's Appleton Institute in Adelaide, addressing a critical yet under-researched challenge of modern work: on-call work and its impact on sleep, fatigue, and safety.
This fully funded PhD scholarship, likely commencing in January 2027, offers the opportunity to:
- Work in a world-class sleep laboratory alongside leading researchers in sleep, fatigue, and workplace safety to conduct a controlled laboratory study examining the effects of repeated overnight call-outs on sleep disruption and recovery.
- Contribute to addressing a major national issue, with fatigue-related harm in on-call workers costing >$2.25 billion annually.
- Generate high-quality experimental evidence to inform fatigue risk management strategies and industry guidance.
- Improve safety, wellbeing, and operational outcomes for on-call workers and the communities they support.
- Complete a PhD while developing a strong foundation for a research career.
The successful candidates will be embedded within the Appleton Institute’s internationally recognised sleep and fatigue research program and contribute to a high-impact, externally funded project. This laboratory-based research will provide critical new insights into the acute effects of overnight disruptions, advancing scientific understanding and supporting safer work practices across essential industries.
Submit your Expression of Interest (EOI) via email to Dr. Madeline Sprajcer at [email protected] as soon as possible. For additional information, you can reach out to Dr. Sprajcer via the same email address. Join our collaborative and innovative research team and contribute to impactful workplace health and safety research!
More information can be found here: https://www.cqu.edu.au/study/prepare/scholarships/find-a-scholarship/1284914/cquniversity-and-arc-phd-scholarship