Chronotype, Sleep Quality and Personality: A Journey Towards Better Mental and Physical Health (CHIME)
The first Big Project is being led by Dr Satyam Chauhan (satyam.chauhan@brunel.ac.uk), working under the supervision of Prof Veena Kumari (Director of Centre for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (CCN), Brunel University of London. This project is supported by a steering group from the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID) leadership committee.
About the project
The main purpose of the project is to comprehensively investigate how, when, and in who chronotype, personality traits, and sleep quality interact to affect mental, physical, and cognitive health in people with or without a history of childhood trauma in large, diverse samples.
Needs (for potential collaborators)
Gains (for potential collaborators)
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Collect N≥50 participants on a [378] item questionnaire (consisting of the psychometric measures listed in the attached). These measures will be packaged by the leads to pass along to you.
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The study inclusion criteria will require all participants to be (i) aged between 18-75 years, (ii) fluent in English, and (iii) able to provide a written informed consent. The exclusion criteria will be current/previous diagnosis of any neuropsychiatric.
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Authorships for study and data contributors (qualifying N≥50 per lab) as per CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).
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Opportunities to propose further investigations utilising the entire project data (to be made freely available upon request, subject to BSPID Big Project Steering Group approval) or adding further questions and measures for additional investigations.
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Networking for developing common related projects and funding applications.
Meet Our Team
Dr. Satyam Chauhan and Professor Veena Kumari are leading the CHIME Project in collaboration with BSPID. We are a team of 30+ researchers from 13 countries across Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
United Kingdom
Dr Satyam Chauhan
Brunel University of London Principal Investigator
Dr Karol Wereszczynski
City St Georges, University of London
Researcher
Professor Veena Kumari
Brunel University of London Principal Investigator
Dr Byron Creese
Brunel University of London Researcher
Dr Claire Hart
University of Southampton
Researcher
Dr Sana Hannan
Lancaster University
Researcher
Dr Stephanie Baines
Brunel University of London
Researcher
Prof Trevor Crawford
Lancaster University
Researcher
Mr Andrei Barbanta
Brunel University of London Researcher
Dr Krupa Vakani
Imperial College London Researcher
Dr Jo Holmberg
University of Central Lancashire Researcher
Dr Holly Cooper
University of Birmingham
Researcher
Dr Martina Vanova
Kingston University
Researcher
Dr Tom Lockhart
University of Portsmouth
Researcher
Dr Emanuele Fino
Queen's University Belfast
Researcher
Mr John Oyewole
Lancaster University
Researcher
Dr Jordan Randell
University of Winchester
Researcher
Mr Lewis Allen
Brunel University of London
Researcher
Ms Lilli Raynor
Lancaster University
Researcher
Dr Preethi Premkumar
London South Bank University
Researcher
BSPID Committee
Dr Liam Satchell
University of Portsmouth
Researcher
Dr Nadja Heym
Nottingham Trent University
Researcher
Professor Alex Sumich
Nottingham Trent University
Researcher
Ms Shelci Martin
Federation University
Researcher
Australia
Dr Grace Wang
University of Southern Queensland
Researcher
Professor Ulrich Ettinger
University of Bonn
Researcher
Germany
Dr Christoph Schild
Universität Münster
Researcher
India
Professor Rakesh Pandey
Banaras Hindu University
Researcher
Dr Niti Upadhyay
Christ University
Researcher
Ms Parvathy Shaji
Researcher
Israel
Associate Professor Rotem Leshem https://www.rotemleshem-criminology.com/
Head of Neurocriminology
Bar-Ilan University
Researcher
Italy
Dr Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan research@fondazionepatriziopaoletti.org
Director, Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics
Researcher
Nepal
Dr Sandesh Dhakal
Tribhuvan University
Researcher
Poland
Dr Konard S. Jankowski
University of Warsaw
Researcher
Portugal
Professor Patrícia Oliveira Silva
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Researcher
Spain
Mr Daniel Santos-Carrasco
University of Seville
Researcher
Thailand
Professor Peera Wongupparaj
Chulalongkorn University
Researcher
Dr Melissa Pavetich
Heriot-Watt University
Researcher
United Arab Emirates
Dr Jigar Jogia
Zayed University
Researcher
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Dr Satyam Chauhan
Dr Satyam Chauhan is an early career researcher who completed his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology from Brunel University of London, United Kingdom, in 2024. He is currently working under the supervision of Professor Veena Kumari at the Centre for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Brunel University of London. He is predominantly interested in sleep and psychiatric illnesses; however, he also has broad research interests, including circadian rhythmicity, childhood trauma, personality, and brain functioning. He is a reviewer for various psychology journals and has received various national awards, including the Rising Star Award (2025) at Brunel Alumni Awards, Early Career Researcher Award (2023) at the Affect, Personality, and Embodied Brain Conference, and was nominated for the EAPL Scientific Impact Award (2024, 2025) from European Association of Psychology and Law.
Professor Veena Kumari
Professor Veena Kumari obtained a PhD in Psychology from Banaras Hindu University, India in 1993 prior to joining the Institute of Psychiatry, London for post-doctoral research. She became a Beit Memorial Research Fellow in 1999, a Wellcome Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science in 2002, and a Full Professor in 2006 at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (formerly known as the Institute of Psychiatry), King’s College London, UK. She left King’s College London in 2016 to join the Sovereign Health Group (USA) as the Chief Scientific Officer and returned to the UK in 2018 to join Brunel University London as Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (CCN).
Her research interests include the neurobiological effects of pharmacological and psychological treatments in psychosis, neurobiology of violence in mental illness, psychobiology of addiction, and personality and brain functioning. Prof Kumari has over 300 publications in reputed psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience journals and received various national and international awards for her research including the Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance of Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, USA (1999), research fellowship from BEIT Memorial Foundation (1999-2002), the BAP (British Association of Psychopharmacology) Clinical Psychopharmacology Prize (2002), Wellcome Senior Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science (2002-2009), the prestigious Humboldt Research Award (2014), and most recently a Bonn International Fellowship (2020/21).
Professor Kumari has supervised a large number of post-graduate and doctoral students and served in editor or editorial board member roles for a number of psychology and psychiatry journals.
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