15 Facts About Sara Arber

Sara Arber is well known for her work on gender and ageing, inequalities in health and has pioneered research in the new field of sociology of sleep.

Sara Arber was born on 19 March 1949 in Chingford, Essex, England, and raised in Thames Ditton, Surrey.

Sara Arber graduated from the London School of Economics with a First in Sociology 1972.

Sara Arber went onto postgraduate study at University of London and University of Michigan before joining the Sociology Department of the University of Surrey as a lecturer in 1974.

Sara Arber obtained her PhD by publications from the University of Surrey in 1991.

Sara Arber was made a Professor there in 1994, she acted as Head of Department and Head of the School of Human Sciences.

Sara Arber has served on various committees of the Economic and Social Research Council since 1984 and was a member of the Grants Assessment Panel.

Sara Arber was a member of the 2014 REF Panel for Sociology.

Sara Arber is co-editor of Contemporary Grandparenting: Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts.

Sara Arber has been pioneering empirical research on the sociology of sleep since 2001.

Professor Sara Arber has analysed survey data on the sleeping habits of 14,000 households finding that one in 10 people are using medication to assist in getting to sleep, and women have more problems getting to sleep than men.

Sara Arber has researched "The biomedical and sociological effects of sleep restriction" for an EU Marie Curie research project focused on the effects of lack of sleep on health and wellbeing.

In 2000, Sara Arber was elected into Academician of the Academy of the Social Science : in 2014, after a change in name, she became a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Science.

Sara Arber was awarded the British Society of Gerontology Outstanding Achievement Award 2011 for her research on ageing.

In 2017, Sara Arber received the British Sociological Association Distinguished Service to British Sociology award, given annually to an "outstanding individual who has contributed most to the discipline by leading an extraordinary life as a sociologist".