Season 9, Episode 8 w Dr Serena Bauducco: Do Electronic Devices Impact Sleep? Maybe Not!

In this episode, I talk with my friend Serena Bauducco from Sweden, by way of Italy. In this episode, we discuss Serena’s latest paper, which was published in Sleep Medicine Reviews. Serena Bauducco, Meg Pillion, Kate Bartel, Chelsea Reynolds, Michal Kahn, Michael Gradisar, “A bidirectional model of sleep and technology use: A theoretical review of How much, for whom, and which mechanisms” Read the full paper here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2024.101933 This study and its findings are going to be challenging for some people. As lately, a narrative vilifying and blaming electronic devices for sleep problems has emerged. In this work, Serena has stepped back and taken a holistic, scientific and non-biased view of the data and unpacked the nuances of this relationship. Serena Bauducco is a researcher in the psychology department. She earned her PhD in 2017 with a thesis entitled “Adolescents’ sleep in a 24/7 society: Epidemiology and prevention.” She finished her international postdoc (Vetenskapsrådet) at Flinders University in South Australia in 2023. Serena’s research focuses on the factors that may exacerbate or improve adolescents’ sleep, the relationship between sleep and mental health, and the potential of school-based interventions to improve teenagers´ sleep health and mental well-being. She is particularly interested in the link between technology use and sleep and how peers and parents may affect both behaviours. In her research, she has used survey studies (including longitudinal and social network analyses), experimental studies, and qualitative/mixed-method studies. Serena primarily teaches the prevention and implementation courses within the Psychology program and has supervised both Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. Connect with Serena LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-bauducco-1119b018/ Google scholar: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=o-Ah7h4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Email: [email protected] Contact me at [email protected] or www.sleep4performance.com.au  and check out the YouTube channel.