Sally Ferguson PhD

Sally is a Professor with the Appleton Institute in Adelaide and Deputy Dean of Research in the School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences. Sally’s background is circadian biology and understanding how the body clock helps keep us synchronized to the world around us and what happens when we work against our clocks.

In the last ten years, this key research interest has led to Sally asking questions about the relationship between sleep, wake and work patterns, particularly for those working shift work. Sally has worked with industry partners in mining, rail, healthcare, marine pilotage, aviation and emergency services. Sally's program of research has received funding support from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Bushfire CRC and the CRC for Rail Innovation. Sally does a lot of work in the area of fatigue risk management and sleeps very well herself.