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Speaking & Media

Invited Lectures & Talks
  • University of Melbourne – Healing and Homecoming: Critical Reflections on Psychology

  • University of Melbourne, Women's Founders Network – Building Values-led Health Ventures

  • Monash University – Various lectures on cultural safety in mental health and systems reform

  • Swinburne University – Sleep Psychology: The Art and Science of Helping People Sleep

  • Behavioural Sleep Medicine Community of Practice – Sleep Health and Culture

  • Grampians Health – Supporting Sleep Health, Day and Night

  • Cairnmillar Institute – Sleep Health: Essential Skills and Knowledge for Clinical Psychologists 

Conference Presentations
  • Australian Association of Infant Mental Health & Marce Society – Perinatal insomnia: A public health priority – 2025

  • Australian Association of Infant Mental Health & Marce Society – Treating perinatal insomnia: A clinical trial of cognitive behavioural therapy & light dark therapy – 2025

  • Asia-Pacific Conference on Women's Mental Health – Postpartum Sleep: What we know and what we can do – 2023

  • Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED) – In Bloom: Reflections and recommendations for supporting emerging researchers within the eating disorders landscape – 2024

  • ANZAED – Looking out and in: Embedding research and evaluation within an eating disorder organisation through academic partnership – 2024

  • ANZAED – Eating Disorder Safe Principles: Thinking big and wide – 2024. 

  • Australian Eating Disorders Research & Translation Eating Disorders Think Tank – Feeding back and in: Integrating research & evaluation within a community eating disorder service - 2024

  • Australasian Sleep Association (ASA) and the Australia and New Zealand Sleep Science Association (ANZSSA) – The Dementia Wellbeing Study: A co-designed trial of a multimodal sleep intervention for people with dementia and their carers – 2022

  • ASA and ANZSSA – Longitudinal changes in sleep timing and chronotype from pregnancy to 2 years postpartum – 2022

  • ASA and ANZSSA – Cognitive behavioural therapy and light dark therapy for postpartum insomnia symptoms: A randomised controlled trial – 2021

  • SLEEP Conference (USA) – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Light Dark Therapy for Postpartum Insomnia Symptoms: Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial – 2021

Media & Interviews
  • Vogue India – Can showering in the dark replace your melatonin supplement for a good night's sleep? here

  • The Butterfly Foundation Let's Talk podcast – Sleep psychology, mental health & eating disorders here 

  • Body + Soul – Which matters more: sleep duration or sleep regularity? here

  • Body + Soul – Science of dark showering here

  • Body + Soul – People are sleeping in ‘potato beds’ now – but is it actually good for you? here

  • WHO Magazine – Summer sleep tips

  • Monash University Lens – Sleep like a baby: Helping new parents sleep better here

  • Monash University – Study to improve sleep and fatigue in first-time mums here

  • The Club with Stephanie Palmer-Derrien – When rest is resistance here

​​​​I respect the tenacity, wisdom and endurance of Australia's First Peoples and pay my respects to Elders past and present.​​

© Dr Sumedha Verma 2026

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