RESEARCHER

- - I have published over 300 papers, including many RCTs (here’s an example from 2019 in JAMA Psychiatry) and written numerous books.

- - I am a firm believer in evidence-based clinical practice. People benefit most from interventions that are rigorously tested in clinical trials; yet are firmly grounded in the real-world. People with mental health difficulties need and deserve treatments that really work.

- - What triggers and what maintains insomnia: psychobiological inhibition model and the attention-intention-effort pathway
  - The association between sleep and affective/ mood disturbance: insomnia as causal factor in mental ill health
  - CBT for insomnia across populations: examples in primary care and cancer care
  - improving access to CBT for insomnia: stepped care approach and work on personalised behavioural medicine
  - The use of digital CBT to deliver CBT at population scale: review and meta-analysis of 12 RCTs of Sleepio

- Along with the colleagues and teams I have been privileged to work with, I believe we have enrolled the greatest number of participants in clinical trials of insomnia. Well done all! We must never stop conducting research
- I am proud that CBTx (not medication) has emerged as the first choice treatment for chronic insomnia in clinical guidelines in the USA, UK and Europe

My encouragement to those starting out:

- My first papers, in the mid-1980s, were case studies of patients. My earliest paper on insomnia illustrates this. Don’t feel that you need to get external grant funding to contribute: be a scientist-practitioner by default

- If I can do it, anyone can. Step up your research and get good advice from people you trust. Try to make a difference. My first randomised placebo-controlled trial (RCT) on insomnia was published in 1989 and my first textbook in 1991