Jessica Paterson

Associate Professor Jessica Paterson is a Clinical Psychologist with over 17 years of research experience in the field of sleep, fatigue, mental health and psychopathology. A/Prof Paterson has expertise in the relationship between sleep, wake and work history, particularly for adolescents and young adults, and in the intersect between trauma and sleep – across the lifespan, as well as for anyone who routinely experiences both trauma exposure and sleep disturbance, e.g., emergency service workers.

Jessica has extensive experience working with the health care and emergency services industries and has worked as a researcher at the Queensland University of Technology, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research (RPA Hospital, Sydney), the Laboratory of Human Chronobiology at Cornell University (NY), and the Appleton Institute at CQUniversity.

A/Prof Paterson is a member of the Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, and the Director of the Sleep and Psychology Laboratory at Bedford Park campus.