Amelia is a Research Assistant at Northumbria University.
Amelia graduated with a First-class Honours in Psychology at Northumbria University in 2021, with a dissertation specialised in sleep and Fitbit's. Her dissertation was revised and published as a manuscript, titled: Poor false sleep feedback does not affect pre-sleep cognitive arousal or subjective sleep continuity in healthy sleepers: a pilot study.
After her degree, she was employed as a research assistant working with Dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease patients. She travels to patient's homes and applies polysomnography sleep equipment on their face, scalp and body. She also administers over 20 questionnaires and use actigraphy wrist watches with participants. Amelia has held this role for over 2 years and I wishes to continue working in psychology research. She won the PSYPAG undergraduate award for her dissertation in 2021, and also had an abstract accepted / presented at the annual European Sleep Research Society conference in Athens, 2022.