Afew years ago when I worked at UEA as the SU’s CEO, one of the student officers was particularly interested in sleep.
It started as a pisstake – this was someone who somehow was unable to get into the office on time and frequently missed the start of meetings, and the inevitable office banter ensued.
But it turned out that not only was he having trouble switching off at night, so were lots of students.
We cast around for research and inevitably concluded that sleep correlates quite closely with both positive mental health and academic performance.
We also concluded (given said officer’s general political outlook) that because it’s hard to make much money from sleep, late capitalism wasn’t really highlighting interventions that might improve it when compared to any number of other expensive “life hacks”.
