Dale Rae Advert

A/Prof Dale Rae (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Division of Physiological Sciences within the Department of Human Biology, and the the Health through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sport Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She holds a PhD from UCT (2007) and is a C2 rated scientist (South African National Research Foundation). Her research focuses on sleep and circadian rhythms, and she is especially interested in how sleep is associated with health (obesity, cardiometabolic diseases, HIV) and performance (workplace and athletic), spanning adolescents to older adults, computer gamers, low-income adults living in urban and rural settings and corporate employees. She currently leads six local research projects, and works on international studies funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Newton Fund.

A/Prof Rae is actively involved in the sleep community in South Africa. In 2018 she hosted South Africa’s first ever Sleep Health Congress and she is currently a Board Member of the newly formed South African Society for Sleep and Health.
A/Prof Rae is passionate about making her research meaningful for the public. To this end, she is the current Director of UCT’s spin-off company, Sleep Science, whose vision is ‘thriving people through healthy sleep’. Sleep Science enables Dale and her team to put into practice what they learn from research through offering services to the public to help people assess and optimise their sleep, as well as offering various sleep education platforms such as talks, workshops and courses.

Our in-person meeting will be in held in Classroom 1 on the third floor of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. For those watching online, we have a zoom link below. The meeting starts at 10:30 am. We will spend the first 10-15 minutes on announcements (grants, publications etc) and research centre business. The webinar starts at 10.45am. For those who are only joining us for the webinar presentation remotely, please only join at 10:45am.  Please note we have one zoom link for both meetings.

 

In terms of CPD points, there will be a google form link and QR code sent during the seminar that you will be able to fill out.