Publications

See our peer-reviews journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, newsletters and letters.

Books

  1. Coveney, C., Greaney, M., Hsu, E.L., Meadows, R. and Williams, S.J., 2023. Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures. Springer Nature.

Edited Books

  1. Robert Meadows, Christiane Solte-Gresser (2027) Bloomsbury Publishing

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Mary Breheny, Rosemary Gibson, Isabelle Ross, Robert Meadows, T Leigh Signal (2026), In: Sleep Health
  2. Sarah Bennett, Grace M. Lewis, Stephanie Chambers, Milly H. Johnston, James Denison-Day, Anthony Duffy, Georgia Treneman-Evans, Paula Kuberka, Nicholas Christoforou, Lee M. Ritterband, Robert Meadows, Doaa Alamoudi, Ian Nabney, Lucy Yardley (2026) , In: JMIR Formative Research In Press(In Press) JMIR Publications
  3. Sarah E Bennett, Milly H Johnston, Georgia Treneman-Evans, James Denison-Day, Anthony Duffy, Amberley Brigden, Paula Kuberka, Nicholas Christoforou, Lee Ritterband, Jewel Koh, Robert MEADOWS, Doaa Alamoudi, Ian Nabney, Lucy Yardley (2024) , In: Pre-Print JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC
  4. Isabelle Ross, Leigh Signal, Natasha Tassell-Matamua, Robert Meadows, Rosemary Gibson (2024), In: K艒tuitui : New Zealand journal of social sciences online Taylor and Francis
  5. Hine, C., Meadows, R. and Pritchard, G., 2023. The Interactional Uses of Evidenced Sleep. Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 48(2), pp.194-214.
  6. Ellis, J., Meadows, R., Alfonso-Miller, P. and Bastien, C. H. (2023) , In: Sleep medicine clinics18(1)pp. 1-7 Elsevier
  7. Meadows, R., Brunton-Smith, I. and Ellis, J., (2022). Are sleep quality judgments comparable across individuals, places, and spaces? An interdisciplinary analysis of data from 207,608 individuals across 68 countries. Sleep health, 8(4), pp.380-386.
  8. Williams, S.J., Meadows, R. and Coveney, C.M., (2021). Desynchronised times? Chronobiology,(bio) medicalisation and the rhythms of life itself. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43(6), pp.1501-1517.
  9. Meadows, R., Nettleton, S., Hine, C. and Ellis, J., (2021). Counting sleep? Critical reflections on a UK national sleep strategy. Critical Public Health, 31(4), pp.494-499. 
  10. Neale, Jo, Grivska, K., Meadows, Robert, Nettleton, Sarah (2019) 鈥業 don鈥檛 stress about it anymore鈥. Perceptions of non-problematic sleep amongst people in residential treatment for substance use disorders, Journal of substance Use 24(4), pp.439-444.
  11. Neale J, Vitoratou S, Lennon P, Meadows R, Nettleton S, Panebianco D, Strang J, Marsden J (2018) Development and early validation of a patient reported outcome measure to assess sleep amongst people experiencing problems with alcohol or other drugs, Sleep 41 (4) zsy013 pp. 1-14 Oxford University Press
  12. Neale, Jo; Meadows, Robert ; Nettleton, Sarah; Panebianco, Daria; Strang, John; Vitoratou, Silia; Marsden, John (2018) Substance misuse, sleep and intervention design: insights from qualitative data Journal of Mental Health pp.1-8.
  13. Meadows, R., Nettleton, S. and Neale J (2017) Sleep waves and recovery from drug and alcohol dependence: Towards a rhythm analysis of sleep in residential treatment. Social Science & Medicine. 84 pp. 124-133 Elsevier
  14. Nettleton, S., Meadows, R. and Neale, J (2017) Disturbing Sleep And Sleepfulness During Recovery From Substance Dependence In Residential Rehabilitation Sociology of Health and Illness  39(5), pp.784-798.
  15. Williams, S.J., Coveney, C. and Meadows, R., (2015). 鈥楳鈥恆pping鈥檚leep? Trends and transformations in the digital age. Sociology of Health & Illness, 37(7), pp.1039-1054.
  16. Meadows, R. and Arber, S., (2015). Marital Status, Relationship Distress, and Self-rated Health What Role for 鈥淪leep Problems鈥? Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 56(3), pp.341-355.
  17. Lowson, E and Arber, S. (2014) Preparing, working, recovering: Gendered expereinces of night work among women and their families, Gender Work and Organisations, Online Early
  18. Ellmers, T., Arber, S., Luff, R., Eyers, I and Young, E. (2013) Factors affecting residents' sleep in care homes, Nursing Older People, 25(8): 29-32
  19. Lowson, E., Middleton, B., Arber, S and Skene, D. (2013) Effects of night work on sleep, cortisol and mood of female nurses, their husbands and children, Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 11:7-13
  20. Venn, S., Meadows, R. and Arber, S. (2013) Gender differences in approaches to self-management of poor sleep in later life, Social Science & Medicine 79(1): 117-123
  21. Lallukka, T., Arber, S., Laaksonen, M., Lahelma, E., Partonen, T and Rahkonen, O (2013) Work-family conflicts and subsequent sleep medication among women and men: A longitudinal registry linkage study, Social Science & Medicine 79(1): 66-75
  22. Eyers, I., Arber, S., Luff, R., Young, E. and Ellmers, T (2012) Rhetoric and reality in daily life in English care homes, International Journal of Ageing and Later Life 7(1): 53-78
  23. Venn, S. and Arber, S (2012) Understanding older peoples' decisions about the use of sleeping medication: issues of control and autonomy, Sociology of Health and Illness 34(8): 1215-1229
  24. Eyers, I., Young, E., Luff, R. and Arber, S. (2012) Striking the balance: Night care versus the facilitation of good sleep, British Journal of Nursing 21(5): 303-307
  25. Meadows, R and Arber, S (2012) Understanding sleep among couples: Gender and the social patterning of sleep maintenance among younger and older couples, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 3 (1): 66-79
  26. Luff, R., Ellmers, T., Eyers, I., Cope, E., Arber, S.  (2011) 鈥楾ime spent in bed at night by care homes residents.鈥  Ageing and Society, Vol 31.  
  27. Venn S and Arber S. (2011) 鈥楧aytime sleep and active ageing in later life鈥, Ageing and Society, 31(2): 197-216. 
  28. Arber, S. and Venn, S. (2011) 鈥楥aregiving at night: Understanding the impact on carers鈥, Journal of Aging Studies. 25: 155-165.
  29. Lallukka T, Arber S, Rahkonen O and Lahelma E. (2010) 鈥楥omplaints of insomnia among midlife employed people: The contribution of childhood and present socioeconomic circumstances鈥, Sleep Medicine, 11: 828-836.
  30. Meadows R, Luff R, Eyers I, Venn S, Cope E and Arber S. (2010) 鈥楢n actigraphic study comparing community dwelling poor sleepers with non-demented care home residents鈥, Chronobiology International  27(4): 842-854.
  31. Lallukka T, Rahkonen O, Lahelma E and Arber S. (2010) 鈥楽leep complaints in middle-aged women and men: The contribution of working conditions and work-family conflicts鈥, Journal of Sleep Research.  19:  466-477.
  32. Bara A-C and Arber S. (2009) 鈥榃orking shifts and mental health - findings from the British Household Panel Survey (1995-2005)鈥, Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health,  35 (5):  361-367.
  33. Staples V, Archer SN, Arber S and Skene D. (2009) 鈥楧aily light exposure profiles in older non-resident extreme morning and evening types鈥, Journal of Sleep Research. 18:  466-471
  34. Chatzitheochari, S. and Arber, S. (2009) , Work, Employment and Society 23(1): 30-48
  35. Arber, S., Bote, M and Meadows, R (2009) Understanding how socio-economic status, gender and marital status influence self-reported sleep problems in Britain Social Science and Medicine 68: 281-289
  36. Meadows, R., Arber, S., Venn, S., Hislop, J and Stanley, N (2009) Chronobiology international 26(1): 80-92
  37. Meadows, R., Arber, S., Venn, S. and Hislop, J. (2008) . Body & Society 14(4):75-92
  38. Meadows, R., Arber, S., Venn, S. and Hislop, J. (2008) . Sociology of Health and Illness 30(5): 696-710
  39. Venn, S., Arber, S., Meadows, R. and Hislop, J. (2008) , British Journal of Sociology. 59(1): 79-97
  40. Arber S. and Bote M. (2007) 鈥楢poyo social y calidad del sueno en el Reino Unido: Condicionamientos socioeconomicos, demograpficos y biologicos鈥 (鈥楽ocial support and sleep quality in the general population of United Kingdom: Socioeconomic, demographic and biological determinants鈥), Praxis Sociologica, 10: 152-182.
  41. Arber, S., Hislop, J., Bote, M. and Meadows, R. (2007) Gender roles and women鈥檚 sleep in mid and later life: A quantitative approach Sociological Research Online
  42. Bianchera E. and Arber S. (2007) 鈥楥aring and sleep disruption among women in Italy鈥, Sociological Research Online, 12(5) (2007)
  43. Moran-Ellis, J., and Venn, S., (2007) The sleeping lives of children and teenagers: nightworlds and arenas of action, Sociological Research Online, 12(5),
  44. Venn, S. (2007) 鈥業t鈥檚 okay for a man to snore鈥: the influence of gender on sleep disruption in couples, Sociological Research Online, 12(5)
  45. Dzaja, A., Arber, S., Hislop, J., Kerkhofs, M., Kopp, C., Pollmacher, T., Polo-Kantola, P., Skene, D., Stenuit, P., Tobler, I. and Porkka-Heiskanen, T. (2005) Women's sleep in health and disease, Journal of Psychiatric Research, 39: 55-76.
  46. Hislop, J., Arber, S., Meadows, R. and Venn, S. (2005) 'Narratives of the Night: the Use of Audio Diaries in Researching Sleep', Sociological Research Online, 10(4),
  47. Meadows, R., Venn, S., Hislop, J., Stanley, N. and Arber, S. (2005) Journal of Sleep Research 14:4. 377-386
  48. Meadows, R (2005) . The Sociological Review 53:2 240-254.
  49. Hislop, J. and Arber, S. (2004) , Sociology of Health and Illness, 26(4): 460-463.
  50. Hislop, J. and Arber, S. (2003a) , Sociology, 37(4), 695-711.
  51. Hislop, J. and Arber, S. (2003b) , Sociology of Health and Illness, 25(7), 815-837.

Book chapters

  1. Meadows, R and Williams, S., J (2027) Health and the Body in Robert Meadows & Christiane Solte-Gresser (Eds) Bloomsbury Publishing
  2. Williams, S., J, Coveney, C. and Meadows, R (2023) Sleep matters: Progress and prospects for the sociology of health and medicine, in A Peterson (ed) Handbook of the Sociology of Health and Medicine
  3. Meadows, R., Williams, S.,J, Gabe, J., Coveney C. and Arber, S. (2018) 'The sociology of sleep', in F. Cappuccio, F, M. Miller and S. Lockley (eds), Sleep Epidemiology and Public Health, 2nd Edition Oxford: Oxford University Press [commissioned chapter]
  4. Arber, S., Venn, S. and Eyers, I., (2018). Sleep and autonomy in later life: the SomnIA project. The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 2, p.17.
  5. Arber, S. (2014) 'Sleep' in Michalos A. C. (Ed) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research Springer pp 5990-2
  6. Meadows, R (2012) Denying death's counterfeit: the sociological aspects of sleep. In A Green et al (eds) Sleep: Multiprofessional Approaches, Jessica Kingsley
  7. Arber S, Meadows R, Venn S.  (2012)  鈥楽leep and Society鈥. In C.A. Espie and C. M. Morin (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Sleep Disorders,   Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  8. Arber, S. and Meadows, R.   (2011)  鈥楽ocial and Health Patterning of Sleep Quality and Duration鈥. In S McFall and C Garrington (eds)   Understanding Society: Early Findings from the first wave of the UK鈥檚 Household Longitudinal Study, Colchester: ISER, University of Essex, pp 88-98
  9. Williams S, Meadows R and Arber S. (2010) 鈥楽ociology of Sleep鈥. In F. Cappaccio, M. Miller  and S Lockley (eds) Sleep Epidemiology,   Oxford:  Oxford University Press, pp 275-299.
  10. Bianchara, E. and Arber, S. (2008) Women鈥檚 Sleep in Italy: The Influence of Caregiving Roles, in Lodewijk Brunt and Brigitte Steger (eds) Worlds of Sleep, Berlin: Frank & Timme
  11. Venn, S. and Arber, S. (2008) Conflicting Sleep Demands: Parents and Young People in UK Households, in Lodewijk Brunt and Brigitte Steger (eds) Worlds of Sleep, Berlin: Frank & Timme
  12. Hislop, J. and Arber, S. (2006) Sleep, gender and ageing: Changing relational and institutional constraints from mid-to-later life, T. Calasanti and K. Slevin. (eds) Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking
  13. Hislop, J. and Arber, S. (2003c). Sleep as a social act: A window on gender roles and relationships. S. Arber, K. Davidson and J. Ginn. (eds) Gender & Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships , Maidenhead: McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 186-205.

Book reviews, newsletters and letters

  1. Williams, S.J., Coveney, C.M. and Meadows, R., (2021). Thinking through the 鈥楤iosocial鈥: Rhythmic Reflections in Pandemic Times. Somastosphere
  2. Arber, S. and Meadows, R., (2020). Class Inequalities in Health and the Coronavirus: a cruel irony. The Blog of the Department of Sociology at the 天美传媒, 23.
  3. Williams, S.J. and Meadows, R (2020) Coronavirus: Why Sleep Gaps May Widen During and After the Crisis, Discover Society
  4. Meadows. (2016) 'The importance of viewing sleep as a 'practice''. Addiction, 11 (6), pp. 1094-1095.
  5. Meadows (2014) Review of The Politics of Sleep (cultural sociology)
  6. Meadows (2014) Review of 24/7 (Work, Employment & Society)
  7. Meadows, R. (2008) The rights and duties of the sleeper Virtual Mentor (American Medical Association Journal of Ethics) 10:585-588
  8. Meadows, R. (2008) Older men's sleep: the body, function and 鈥榥arratives of decline' Generations 32(1):28-31
  9. Meadows, R; Stanley, N; Venn, S; Hislop, J; Arber, S. (2005) Completely unattended home sleep recordings, Letter in Sleep 28(4): 526
  10. Hislop, J. and Williams, S.(2004) A Sociology of Sleep? Surely Not , BSA Network. Autumn 2004, 33.
  11. Hislop, J. (2002a) Towards a sociology of sleep, British Sleep Society (BSS) Newsletter, Issue 9, June 2002, 5-6.
  12. Hislop, J. (2002b) The missing link? Sociological approaches to the study of women's sleep, European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) Newsletter, December 2002, 5-6.
  13. Lichstein, K. and Morin, C. (Eds.) (2000) Treatment of Late-Life Insomnia, Sage, Thousand Oaks . Reviewed by Hislop, J (2003) in Quality in Ageing- Policy, practice and research 4(1) April 2003, 39-40.