Sleep Science Podcast

12/02/2026

- 13th March

As part of World Sleep Day, the Neuroscience and Psychology of Sleep (NaPS) lab at CUBRIC, Cardiff University, are hosting a public event with talks from our sleep researchers, guest speakers and a range of posters and interactive stalls.

More information and tickets available here:

For World Sleep Day, the NaPS lab are hosting a free public event with talks and activities on sleep, our sleep research and sleep health. Entry is free and everyone is welcome.

08/01/2026

EXTENDED deadline for art competition! 🎨
A chance to win £250!

We're looking for artwork showcasing our work combining mental health and sleep engineering.
We're open to traditional or digital artwork. More information at link in bio or visit sleepengineering.co.uk/art-call-out

Deadline is 31st January

Any queries, drop us a message or email us at [email protected] ✉️

16/10/2025

Why can't we remember our earliest childhood experiences?

We explore the phenomenon of infantile amnesia and unpack the theories behind it with Professor Rebecca Spencer from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Link to all episodes in bio.

Excerpt taken from S3E4 "Sleep across a lifetime".

10/10/2025

Join our lab at Cardiff University Brain Research and Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)!

We're looking for 2 x Research Assistants to undertake a PhD, link in bio to apply

04/09/2025

We've reached 50,000 listens!

THANK YOU so much to all of you for your support and questions over the last few years!

We love making the series and we look forward to bringing you many more episodes on all things sleep with researchers from around the world.

We're always open to feedback so if you have any topics you'd like us to cover, any questions for our Q&A or anything you can think of, please drop us a message.

Thank you again for all your support!
From the NaPS Lab Cardiff

26/08/2025

Our newest episode is live now - Exploring Closed-loop Auditory Stimulation (CLAS)

We talk with Dr Hongi Ngo, the developer of CLAS and its potential implications in memory manipulation, immune response and more!

We're joined by Hongi Ngo, who developed a revolutionary technique for manipulating sleep oscillations during his PhD.  Closed-loop Auditory Stimulation (CLAS), which uses bursts of pink noise which are carefully timed to a particular phase o...

07/04/2025

52 days until Replay@CUBRIC-25

Our 4th international conference on memory replay is taking place in Cardiff this May!

Tickets are £50 for both day registration and we are now able to offer a limiter number of student bursaries for PhD students with financial limitations

Join us for a packed 2 days of guest speakers, workshops, poster presentation and datablitzes on memory replay.

Link in bio

20/03/2025

World Sleep Day at NaPS!

We had a great day for last Friday. With talks from our lab on our current research, stalls and guests from DreamsID and Hapus.

The event was open to anyone with an interest in sleep and dreams and we're looking forward to next year!

Photos:

1. A dream painted live by Professor Julia Lockhart from DreamsID. During the workshop, led by Professor Mark Blagrove, a dreamer recalled a recent dream with the group, delving into the dream details and potential links to waking life

2. We had stalls on our research covering our work on developing a wearable EEG headband and our eyemask study.

3. Guests from Hapus, showcased Hapus, a mental health and wellbeing initiative

4. Food good for our sleep stall

11/11/2024

If you're a night owl, you may have caught Marta, a PhD student from our lab, on Midnight Mastermind BBC Radio 2 testing Phil's knowledge on sleep stages and Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR)!
Check it out on BBC Sounds

Phil keeps you entertained through the start of Monday.

25/10/2024

The Neuroscience and Psychology of Sleep (NaPS) lab, the makers of the Sleep Science Podcast, are looking for a research assistant to join their team. On this Wellcome Trust funded project, the researcher will be invesigating the use of Targeted Memory Reactivation on PTSD and Depression. The post holder will complete a PhD over their 3 year position with us.

Deadline is 21st Nov - apply here: https://t.co/EKctOt1vmD

22/10/2024

Hello everyone!
It's been a long while but we are coming back with brand new content for our next season of the podcast. To welcome you all back, we are doing a Christmas Special Q&A episode where our researchers at the lab try to answer all your sleep related questions! Please leave your questions below or drop us an email - Questions need to be in by the end of this week!

See our other Q&A episodes to see what kind of questions we've answered in the past

Today's episode is a little bit different. We're marking the end of our first season by roping in the rest of the NaPS lab to answer listeners' sleep-related questions. Thanks to everyone who sent questions in!List of questions:Why do we use the t...