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Simon J. Williams

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Born: December 31 1960

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Simon Johnson Williams joined the Department of Sociology at Warwick in 1992, becoming a full Professor in 2006. Prior to that he was a Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent after successfully completing his doctoral studies at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, in 1990.

Simon is a passionate teacher and researcher with strong conviction in the enduring power and promise of the social and political sciences in a complex, changing world. He is also strongly committed to interdisciplinary conversations, particularly those of a biosocial and biopolitical kind, and to wider engagements with diverse audiences and publics, including media profiling of his work.

Simon has served on the editorial boards of a number of key international journals in his field . He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts .

Simon's research to date falls into the following interrelated areas of social and political science pertaining to: the body, health and society; bioscience, biomedicine, biopolitics; media, culture and everyday/night life, including new digital forms of self-tracking and the sharing of such data on social media, particularly sleep data. He also has longstanding interests in social theory and newly emerging interests in the challenges and complexities of big data.

He has been notably active in recent years, as an outgrowth of his previous interests in body matters, in developing with colleagues social and interdisciplinary research agendas regarding sleep and society, including an early agenda-setting ESRC 'Sleep and Society' seminar series and other recent discussions and reflections on sleep matters and the politics of sleep in Somatosphere, the RSA journal and Discover Society. This in turn has been augmented through other interrelated strands of research on the sociology and politics of pharmaceuticals; mental health and illness; biomedical enhancements and 'biohacking'; new forms of monitoring, measuring, managing and optimising ourselves in the digital age and the big data era, and most recently of all, the social, cultural and political dimensions of chronobiology in society.

Research awards to date include grants from funding bodies such as the ESRC, the British Academy and the NHS Executive, as well as the co-supervision of a number of successfully completed ESRC doctoral studentships and a co-funded Warwick-Coeliac UK studentship. Recent projects for example, include a collaborative ESRC funded study of Medicated Sleep and Wakefulnes: A Social Scienfitic Investigation of Stakeholder Interests, Policies and Practices and a Wellcome seed fund project on 'Social Media and Sleep: Ethical Agendas in the Digital Age' which has just ended. Other new collaborative research bids are currently in the early stages of discussion and development on Chronobiology in Society and Sleep and Transhumanism.

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Simon J. Williams

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Books from Simon J. Williams

The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age

Sleep and Society: Sociological Ventures Into the Un(known)

The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

Pharmaceuticals and Society: Critical Discourses and Debates

Medicine and the Body

Modern Medicine: Lay Perspectives And Experiences

Biosocial Matters P

Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir) Rational

Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas