We are delighted to welcome Dr Amanda Tan as Associate Director of DISC! Her current research focuses on how parents use AI to seek information and advice about their infant's sleep, e.g. to check whether their baby's sleep is normal or figure out how to get more sleep for themselves and their babies, and to evaluate the quality and safety of AI-generated advice.

Infant sleep is an emotive topic, and at times a controversial one. On this episode of 'Child', a BBC Radio 4 Podcast, Professor Helen Ball and India Rakusen discuss what 'normal' means when it comes to infant sleep, why people are so anxious about it, and the topic of bed sharing.

"Are we all secretly co-sleeping?": article discusses opinions on co-sleeping, and the work of academics researching parent-infant sleep behaviour.

Three of our PhD Students have been blogging about what we do at DISC, and their own work too.

Professor Ball has been interviewed for the Researchers in Conversations podcast, discussing her career and current work.

Professor Ball has been featured in the BBC futures article 'The Science of Healthy Baby Sleep' alongside other infant sleep researchers, many of which are DISC external collaborators.

DISC hosted our 22nd Anniversary conference at the end of March this year, celebrating more than 20 years since the research centre was opened and the work and impact that has been generated since.

Professor Helen Ball was interviewed alongside Professor Rebecca Spencer, a neuroscientist at the University of Massachussetts-Amherst about the science behind infant sleep.

In this podcast episode, "Helen Ball: Bedsharing Research", Helen discusses the the attitudes and practices regarding infant sleep, infant sleep development, and the mismatch between cultural attitudes towards sleep, and biological sleep needs.

Professor Ball discusses safe infant sleep practices and the evidence around these recommendations alongside Tracey Cassells, PhD.

Professor Helen Ball gave a talk for the Wolfson Institute of Health and Wellbeing, discussing the work undertaken at the Durham Infancy and Sleep Centre (DISC).

Professor Helen Ball gave a talk at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA about evolutionary perspectives on early infant care, breastfeeding and sleep.