Research Activities

Research has been built on five core, overlapping, themes:

• Age, gender and sleep – including SomnIA, a large multidisciplinary project on understanding older people’s sleep in the community and care homes, and research on children and sleep;
• Household/couple dynamics and sleep – including an ESRC funded project exploring the ways that couples negotiate their sleep, and current work analysing large scale survey data to explore the dyadic nature of sleep; link
• Quantitative investigations into inequalities in sleep – including analysis of the new Understanding Society Survey which includes sleep data from 14000 households;
• Methodological issues when researching sleep, using multi-disciplinary methodologies, including indepth interviews, audio-diaries, and actigraphy;
• Training multidisciplinary sleep researchers – including an EU Marie Curie funded Training Network, and supervision of interdisciplinary doctoral research on sleep.