In this session, we will share our lab’s research on the role of psychological factors and health behaviours in cognitive health. We use naturalistic methods in our work – including wearable health monitors, saliva sampling, and mobile surveys — to track health, well-being, and experiences as they unfold in real-time. Our research has revealed reciprocal relationships between sleep and stress in daily life, in addition to links between stressors and fluctuations in everyday cognitive functioning.
This is a hybrid event. Dr. Sin and Nicole will be in-person at DMCBH presenting in the Rudy North Lecture Theatre (Lower Level Atrium) and so we encourage you to join us in-person. You can register for either in-person or zoom through the registration buttons below.
Speakers:
Dr. Nancy L. Sin (she/her) is a health psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD from the University of California, Riverside and was a National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco and at the Center for Healthy Aging at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on biological, psychological, and behavioural pathways linking daily well-being and stress to downstream health and aging-related outcomes. She has published extensively in journals for behavioural medicine, health psychology, and aging.
Dr. Sin’s research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBC, CNN, NPR, Scientific American, and other popular media outlets. She has held leadership roles in the American Psychological Association and the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. In recognition of her scientific contributions, Dr. Sin was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging, Michael Smith Health Research Scholar Award, and Innovative Research on Aging Bronze Award from the Mather Institute.
Nicole Stuart, M.A. (she/her) is a PhD student in Health Psychology. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Waterloo in Psychology (2020), and her Master’s in Health Psychology from UBC (2023). Her research focuses on how daily experiences of stress relate to cognitive performance, and whether modifiable factors, such as health behaviour engagement, may influence this relationship.