Clare Ladyman is a post-doctoral researcher at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre at Massey University (NZ), where she also completed her PhD. Prior to joining the centre, she completed a postgraduate diploma in Sleep Science at UWA and an undergraduate degree in Sports Science at ECU. Clare’s primary research focus and passion are the sleep and mental health of mothers across the perinatal period, specifically developing ways to support and improve women’s sleep and mood during this timeframe. Her book, titled “Sleeping Better in Pregnancy”, provides sleep information and practical strategies to help women get the best sleep possible throughout pregnancy and in 2020, she won the Australian Sleep Foundation’s inaugural Emerging Sleep Hero award for her work in this area. Clare also works on education and fatigue research studies in the aviation and health sectors and is a sessional academic for the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney.