Catherine Coveney

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Catherine Coveney

Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Loughborough University

I am sociologist of health and illness, interested in health and medical technologies (including pharmaceuticals, self-tracking technologies and fertility treatments) and the roles they play in how we think about, act on and react to health and illness. My research has focussed on the sociological, cultural and ethical aspects of biomedicine across several areas of everyday life, taking disability, sleep, suicide, chronic illness, elite sport and human reproduction as specific examples. My current research projects are ‘Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures’ which takes a critical sociological lens to explore the entanglements of sleep and technology; and Living with Noonan Syndrome which explores the everyday lives of parents caring for children with rare genetic disease.

Technology is radically changing sleep as we know it

From sleep trackers to wakefulness drugs, the 21st century has seen an influx of new technology that could radically alter the way we sleep.

Technology is radically changing sleep as we know it

From sleep trackers to wakefulness drugs, the 21st century has seen an influx of new technology that could radically alter the way we sleep.

By Eric L Hsu, Catherine Coveney