Umair Akram

Experience

• 2022–present
  Editor, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio)
• 2021–present
  Editor, Experimental results (Cambridge University Press)
• 2021–present
  Editor, BMC Psychiatry & BMC Psychology (SpringerNature)
• 2022–present
  Senior lecturer, University of Lincoln
• 2017–2022
  Lecturer , Sheffield Hallam University
• 2013–2017
  Assistant lecturer, Northumbria University

Education

• 2020 
  University of Oxford, PDip Sleep Medicine
• 2016 
  Northumbria University, PhD Psychology
• 2011 
  University College London, PDip Social Cognition
• 2010 
  University of Hull, BSc Psychology

Publications

• 2023
  Sleep-Related Attentional and Interpretive-Bias in Insomnia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Sleep Medicine Reviews
• 2022
  Mental Health Memes: Beneficial or Aversive in Relation to Psychiatric Symptoms?, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
• 2022
  Self-Critical Thinking Mediates the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Perceived Stress In Undergraduate Students: A Longitudinal Study, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
• 2022
  The Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia on Multidimensional Perfectionism, Behavior Therapy
• 2022
  A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Poor Sleep, Insomnia Symptoms and Stress In Undergraduate Students, Sleep Medicine Reviews
• 2022
  Teleworking during a pandemic: perspective of an idiopathic hypersomnia patient, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
• 2022
  Diurnal Preference and Correlates of Multidimensional Perfectionism, Type-D Personality, and Big-Five Personality Traits, Clocks & Sleep
• 2021
  Sleep-Related Monitoring On Awakening Mediates The Relationship Between Insomnia-Related Interpretive Bias and Insomnia Symptoms Using The Insomnia Ambiguity Paradigm, Journal of Sleep Research
• 2021
  Self-Disgust and the Dark Triad Traits: The Role of Expressive Suppression, Personality & Individual Differences
• 2021
  The Interaction Between Suicidal Ideation, Insomnia Symptoms, and Student Status, Experimental Results
• 2021
  Self-Disgust as a Potential Mechanism Underlying the Association Between Body Image Disturbance and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours, Journal of Affective Disorders
• 2021
  Internet Memes Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Potential Coping Mechanism for Anxiety, Scientific Reports
• 2021
  Humour Styles Influence the Perception of Depression-Related Internet Memes in Depression, Humor
• 2021
  Homogeneity of Cognitive and Behavioral Processes Underlying the Relationship Between Insomnia and Body Image Disturbance, Cognitive Processing
• 2021
  The Role of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Altered Psychological Well-being, Mental Health and Sleep: An Online Cross-sectional Study, Psychology, Health & Medicine
• 2020
  Exploratory Study On The Role Of Emotion Regulation In Perceived Valence, Humour, And Beneficial Use Of Depressive Internet Memes In Depression, Scientific Reports
• 2020
  A Patients View on Reclassifying Idiopathic Hypersomnia to Narcolepsy Type-3, Sleep
• 2020
  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia Does Not Appear to Have a Substantial Impact on Early Markers of Cardiovascular Disease: A Randomised Controlled Trial, Journal of Sleep Research
• 2020
  Examining the Factor Structure, Reliability and Validity of the Disturbing Dreams and Nightmare Severity Index (DDNSI) Consequences Sub-component, Behavioral Sleep Medicine
• 2020
  Perceptual Differences In Emotionally Ambiguous Neutral Faces Amongst Individuals Displaying Clinically Significant Insomnia Symptoms, Perception
• 2020
  Eye Tracking and Attentional Bias For Depressive Internet Memes In Depression, Experimental Brain Research
• 2020
  Emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between nightmares and psychotic experiences: Results from a student population, Npj Schizophrenia
• 2020
  Prevalence and psychiatric correlates of suicidal ideation in UK university students , Journal of Affective Disorders
• 2020
  Depression Mediates Cutaneous Body Image And Facial Appearance Dissatisfaction In Insomnia, Sleep and Biological Rhythms
• 2019
  The Relationship Between Depression & Insomnia Symptoms Amongst a Sample of UK University Students, Sleep Medicine Research
• 2019
  Sleep Duration, Sleep Variability, and Impairments of Visual attention, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• 2019
  Anxiety and Depression Mediate the Relationship Between Insomnia Symptoms and the Personality Traits of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability, Heliyon
• 2019
  Psychopathy And Chronotype Disposition: The Mediating Role Of Depression, Heliyon
• 2019
  Dysfunctional Sleep-related Cognition and Anxiety Mediate the Relationship Between Multidimensional Perfectionism and Insomnia Symptoms, Cognitive Processing
• 2019
  Everything at Once, or Nothing at All, Schizophrenia Bulletin
• 2019
  The Role of Physical and Behavioral Self-Disgust in Relation to Insomnia and Suicidal Ideation, Journal of CLinical Sleep Medicine
• 2019
  Categorisation Deficit of Facially Expressed Anger in Insomnia (Commentary on Zhang et al.) , Sleep
• 2019
  Examination Of Sleep Health Dimensions and Their Associations With Perceived Stress and Health In a UK sample, Journal of Public Health
• 2018
  The Relationship Between Insomnia Symptoms and the Dark Triad Personality Traits, Personality and Individual Differences
• 2018
  Sleep-Related Attentional Bias for Faces Depicting Tiredness in Insomnia: Evidence From an Eye-Tracking Study, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
• 2018
  The Therapeutic Potential of Attentional Bias Modification Training for Insomnia: Study Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial, Trials
• 2018
  The Face Of Tiredness In Insomnia From The Self-Perspective: A Focus On Attentional And Interpretative Biases, Journal of Sleep Research
• 2018
  Anxiety and Depression Mediate the Relationship Between Self-Disgust and Insomnia Disorder, Sleep Health
• 2018
  The Relationship Between Type-D Personality and Insomnia, Sleep Health
• 2018
  Qualitative Examination of Daytime Monitoring and Selective Attention in Insomnia, Sleep and Vigilance
• 2018
  Exploration of Potential Objective and Subjective Indicators of Sleep Health in Normal Sleepers, Nature and Science of Sleep
• 2018
  Sleep-related Attentional Bias in Insomnia: Time To Examine Moderating Factors?, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2018
  Sleep-Related Attentional Bias For Tired Faces In Insomnia: Evidence From a Dot-Probe Paradigm, Behaviour Research and Therapy
• 2018
  Objective Sleep and Personality, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
• 2017
  Anxiety Mediates the Relationship Between Multidimensional Perfectionism and Insomnia Disorder, Personality and Individual Differences
• 2017
  Sleep Associated Monitoring on Awakening Mediates the Relationship Between Cutaneous Body Image Dissatisfaction and Insomnia Symptoms, Sleep Science
• 2017
  Altered Perception of Facially Expressed Tiredness in Insomnia, Perception
• 2017
  Preferential Attention Towards the Eye-region Amongst Individuals with Insomnia, Journal of Sleep Research
• 2016
  Misperception of Tiredness In Young Adults with Insomnia, Journal of Sleep Research
• 2015
  Anxiety Mediates the Relationship between Perfectionism and Insomnia Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study, Plos One

Grants and Contracts

• 2019
  SleepCogni active-biofeedback treatment for sleep-onset insomnia

  Role:

  Co-investigator - consultancy contract for BrainTrain2020 Ltd

  Funding Source:

  Innovate UK

• 2018
  Examining the therapeutic effect of attentional bias modification (ABM) for insomnia

  Role:

  Lead Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Sheffield Hallam University PSP REF 2018 Funding Scheme

• 2018
  Validating the SleepCogni device against research grade equipment across multiple physiological measures associated with sleep-onset

  Role:

  Co-investigator - consultancy contract for BrainTrain2020 Ltd

  Funding Source:

  BrainTrain2020 Ltd

Professional Memberships

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Honours

PhD Insomnia, PDip Sleep Medicine, BSc Psychology