Professor Drew Dawson

Professor Drew Dawson is nationally and internationally recognised for his contributions to the scientific community and to industry in the areas of sleep and fatigue research, organisational psychology and human factors, industrial relations negotiations, and the human implications of hours of work.

Drew has worked extensively with the aviation, manufacturing, retail, entertainment, transportation, and mining sectors in Australia and is a world-renown expert on fatigue in the workplace. He's instigated fatigue management programmes, developed shiftwork and fatigue policy, undertaken pre-employment assessments, and facilitated shiftwork education sessions. Drew also regularly presents at national and international conferences and has provided expert witness testimony in many fatigue-related court cases.

Centre for Sleep Research

Sleep Research Society

Australasian Sleep Association

B.A. (Hons) Flinders University (1986)

Ph.D. Flinders University (1991)

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Psychology

• Sleep research, sleep deprivation, fatigue, workload, shiftwork
• trucker fatigue, aviation fatigue, road safety, fatigue and safety in rail and mining
• how much sleep we need, sleep and weight gain, the sleep diet, sleep and kids, sleep and diabetes
• human factors, error management, catastrophe avoidance