Emma Sullivan
emmacsullivan.bsky.social
Emma Sullivan
@emmacsullivan.bsky.social
Postdoc researcher investigating all things sleep, emotion regulation, mental health (& more recently smartphone use/social media) at @yorkpsychology.bsky.social.
Really enjoyed speaking about my recent work for the Research Room podcast!
Does bad sleep fuel anxiety? Should schools ban smartphones?

We tackle the complex science of sleep, screens, and stress with @emmacsullivan.bsky.social from @yorkpsychology.bsky.social.

Listen now! www.theresearchroompodcast.com/Home/Episode...
#research #psychology #sleep #smartphoneban #science
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Another exciting Research Spotlight Blog to cap off this week.
Explore how our writer has been looking at the relationship between mood and sleep using both real-world and lab-based methods.
www.circadianmentalhealth.org/post/tired-m...
#sleepresearch #ECRs
October 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Paper 3/4 of my PhD is out! 🎉 Published in Neuropsychologia’s special issue on Sleep, Memory & Emotion - a review from my thesis introduction on how sleep helps disentangle emotion processing.
September 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Great to be at my first @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference today and tomorrow! I'll be presenting this afternoon on the preliminary findings from our smartphone detox studies in adolescents in Online Health (2).
July 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Really enjoyed writing this blog post for the @thementalelf.bsky.social. A really interesting study with lots of discussion points (see thread)!
Smartphone bans in schools are not associated with better mental wellbeing or reduced screen-time out of school buff.ly/C8Zo4PQ

#Smartphones #Screentime #PhoneBans #Schools #YouthMentalHealth

🧵 THREAD
May 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I'm excited to share that the second study of my PhD, exploring the links between emotion regulation, sleep quality, and emotional inertia, has been published in Cognition & Emotion!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality*
Emotional inertia (i.e. the tendency for emotions to persist over time) is robustly associated with lower wellbeing. Yet, we know little about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Good qual...
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗
I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”.
To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
#psychjobs
December 16, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Had a great day at the screening for the documentary we've been involved in for the past few months on the impacts of smartphone bans and social media. Airing on Channel 4 on the 11th and 12th Dec at 8pm!
December 3, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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I'm recruiting a 23-month postdoc! If you're interesting in #ComputationalPsychiatry or #EatingDisorders research please apply and/or get in touch - very happy to have informal chats with potential applicants, and put you in touch with existing members of my lab. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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Is a sleep intervention delivered by non-expert practitioners feasible for youth mental health? https://buff.ly/4dRXRPP

Emma Sullivan finds that CBT for insomnia (delivered by assistant psychologists) is a feasible intervention for young people w mental health & sleep difficulties.

#CBTi #Sleep
October 22, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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Congrats to Dr. Emma Sullivan who passed the viva for her thesis on the cognitive mechanisms by which sleep supports emotion regulation and mental health.
January 19, 2024 at 1:35 PM