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Sociology of sleep group involved in new Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders
Professor Sara Arber, Dr Robert Meadows and Dr Susan Venn co-author a chapter on 'Sleep and Society' in a new Oxford Handbook edited by Colin Espie and Charles Morin
New paper in Sociology of Health and illness 17/04/2012
Dr Susan Venn and Professor Sara Arber have had a paper published (online early) on medication use and sleep
Sociology of sleep group involved in Understanding Society release
Professor Sara Arber and Dr Robert Meadows have been invited to produce a chapter and a paper as part of the Understanding Society early release
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Radio 4 Today programme - 29th January 2009
Professor Sara Arber talks about the 'Brussels Symposium' on Radio 4 (7:20am, 29th January 2009). You can listen to the full interview here.
Fellow of the British Academy
Professor Sara Arber has recently been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of The British Academy, which elects 35 new Fellows each year from across the Humanities and Social Sciences. There are only 25 Sociologists in the UK who are elected Fellows of The British Academy.
Sara’s election is a recognition of her work in three fields: (1) inequalities in health, particularly gender and class inequalities; (2) sociology of ageing, particularly gender and the provision of informal care, health, and income in later life, and (3) establishing the innovative field of Sociology of Sleep, including developing new methodologies to better understand the relationships between health, ageing, gender and sleep. See http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2008/arber-s.cfm for more details.
Recent papers/presentations
Susan Venn gave a talk entitled 'Understanding sleep disruption in everyday life', on the 24 October 2008, at 'Sleep Disorders', organised by the British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Institute of Physics, London. Please contact Susan Venn for more details.