Lab Exchange Program
The Consortium Lab Exchange Program aims to facilitate training partnerships between Consortium members and partners, with a focus on skills development and technology transfer.
Apply by August 18, 2025. Click on the buttons below for competition details, deadlines and applications.
Past Lab Exchange Blog Posts
Intersectoral Research Scholarship
This scholarship aims to develop cooperation between trainees of the Consortium and the non-academic sector. Grants will be awarded to support joint sleep research projects combining different sectors with mutual benefits, research dissemination and public outreach initiatives. This program offers academic researchers and students the opportunity to work with the private sector/industrial partners, public sector/government, or non-profit organizations.
Apply by October 17, 2025. Click on the buttons below for competition details and application form.
Dissemination Awards
The 2025 Consortium Dissemination Awards Program was very competitive! We would like to extend our appreciation to all applicants and to our four reviewers: Anna MacKinnon, Lydi-Anne Vézina-Im, Vincent Bourgon, and Nicholas van denBerg. The winners were announced at the opening ceremony of the Canadian Sleep Society conference on Friday, March 14th. A $1,500.00 prize was awarded to each recipient from the Consortium’s three research teams.
Mahtab Matin
Sleep Health Equity Research Team
Title of Scientific Communication: Characteristics and Correlates of Infant Sleep in a Canadian Sample Born During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Aidan Smith
Insomnia and Mental Health Research Team
Title of Scientific Communication: Acute sleep loss and highway hypnosis: One night of mild sleep restriction leads to a reduction in visual scanning and environmental processing behaviours while driving
Emily Wilderboer
Sleep Across the Lifespan Research Team
Title of Scientific Communication: A Qualitative Study Exploring Healthcare Provider Needs and Preferences for an Early Childhood Sleep Education Program and Development and Preliminary Validation of the Pediatric Behavioural Sleep Knowledge Questionnaire and the Sleep, Attitudes, and Beliefs Scale for Multidisciplinary Healthcare Providers
Awardees in 2023
Mya Dockrill
Sleep Across the Lifespan Research Team
Title of Scientific Communication: Barriers and Facilitators to the Better Nights, Better Days during COVID-19 Program for Parents and Healthcare Providers: A Qualitative Perspective.
Abygaëlle Côté and Jolianne Roberge
Insomnia and Mental Health Research Team
Title of Scientific Communication: Annual Incidence and Predisposing Factors of Insomnia among Good Sleepers Who Experienced a Stressful Relationship Event.