Rate My Professor Grace Vincent

Grace Vincent is an Associate Professor at CQUniversity's Appleton Institute in the School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences. She holds a PhD from Deakin University awarded in 2016 and a Bachelor of Science with Honours from the University of Auckland. Following her PhD, she joined CQUniversity in 2016, advancing through positions including Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer. Her research centres on enhancing sleep health for shift workers in safety-critical industries such as firefighting, healthcare, mining, and emergency services. Key areas include the interplay between sleep, physical activity, diet, and fatigue; development of behavioural interventions and digital tools like AI-powered sleep assistants; and creation of evidence-based fatigue risk management strategies. She has supervised 12 PhD students, 25 Honours students, and 13 summer scholars, while collaborating with 179 researchers across 49 institutions in 15 countries.

Vincent has attracted over $4 million in competitive research funding, including a 2025 Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), two ARC Discovery Projects, and a Medical Research Future Fund grant. She has produced more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, with notable contributions such as 'Fighting fire and fatigue: Sleep quantity and quality during multi-day wildfire suppression' (2016), 'Sleep in wildland firefighters: What do we know and why does it matter?' (2018), 'The effect of working on-call on stress physiology and sleep: A systematic review' (2017), and 'Healthy Sleep Practices for Shift Workers: Consensus Sleep Hygiene Guidelines using a Delphi Methodology' (2023). Her work has shaped policy, including contributions to the European Union's labour rights framework, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer report, and Australian Government guidelines on fatigue and sleep management for the National Mental Health Commission and Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance. Among over 25 awards, she has received CQUniversity Vice Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding Early Career Research (2019) and Mid-Career Research, South Australian Tall Poppy Award (2020), Rob Pierce Grant in Aid (2018), Nick Antic Career Development Award (2023), and winner of the National 5-Minute Research Pitch Competition (2020). She consults for organizations including Fatigue Management International and British Columbia Wildfire Service.