Rate My Professor Barbara Galland

As Principal Investigator and head of the Children’s Sleep Health Research Group, her research, spanning over 30 years across paediatric age groups, centres on sleep health in preschoolers, children, and teenagers. Key interests include the effects of sleep disturbances and sleep-related breathing disorders on behaviour, cognition, academic performance, overweight, obesity, type 1 diabetes, and biological mechanisms underlying Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy. She has authored over 160 scientific research publications, accumulating more than 6,400 citations.

Notable publications comprise “Normal sleep patterns in infants and children: a systematic review of observational studies” (2012), “Sleep Disordered Breathing and Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis” (2015), and “Predictors for achieving optimal sleep in healthy children: Exploring sleep patterns in a sleep extension trial” (2023). Current projects encompass healthy school start times for adolescent sleep, the Preschool Camera Study, and teenage sleep quality with next-day functioning. Her work receives funding from the Health Research Council, Cure Kids, Freemasons of New Zealand, and Marsden Fund, and involves collaborations with the Sleep/Wake Research Centre at Massey University and various University of Otago departments. Galland delivered her Inaugural Professorial Lecture in 2021.