Dr Sigman is a Chartered Biologist, Fellow of the Society of Biology, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a recipient of the Chartered Scientist award from the Science Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
He recently addressed the European Parliament Working Group on the Quality of Childhood in the European Union, in Brussels, on reducing alcohol misuse among children and adolescents, his report on Preventing Alcohol Misuse Among Children and Adolescents in the EU will be published by the EU Parliament Working Group in 2013. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have invited Dr Sigman to speak at their Annual Conference in May, 2012 on Alcohol and Electronic Media, as a clinical and scientific session on Young Persons Health.
Dr Sigman lectures on PSHE health education and talks to schools and parents on the effects of alcohol and other health issues, he writes the Brain and Behaviour column for The Times Educational Supplement magazine TESpro.
Scotland's national Violence Reduction Unit have invited Dr Sigman to speak to the nation's police at their conference on alcohol in October. He was a keynote speaker at two recent Department of Health NHS conferences on alcohol: the North West Alcohol Conference 2011 and the North East Alcohol Office conference 'Calling Time on Second Hand Harm'. He was invited by the Ministry of National Education to address the First International Congress of Technology Addiction in Istanbul, Turkey, in April.
Dr Sigman previously
addressed the European Parliament Working Group in Brussels, on the
impact of electronic media. He addressed the 2011 Headmasters’
& Headmistresses’ Conference: Meeting the Challenges. His
book, Alcohol Nation (see below),
has just been published and his biology paper, A
Source of Thinspiration?, on the biological aspects of media, body
image and dieting, was published in The Biologist, the Journal of the
Society of Biology.
Dr Sigman has worked on health
education campaigns with the Department of Health and acted as advisor
to the Institute of Personnel Management on health and psychology issues.
He conducts seminars and public speaking. Dr Sigman's previous books
include The
Spoilt Generation and Remotely
Controlled: How Television is Damaging Our Lives. His health and
psychology book Getting Physical won The Times Educational Supplement's
Information Book Award.
Dr Sigman has published other papers. Well
Connected?: The Biological Implications of 'Social Networking',
is published in The Biologist, Vol 56(1), the journal of the Society
of Biology.
Note: This paper has been misrepresented by some news
reports as claiming that social networking causes cancer or disease.
This is not true. The paper addresses the extent to which time online
may be displacing face-to-face contact, and that lack of social connection
is associated with physiological changes, increased incidence of illness
and higher premature mortality.
His previous paper Visual Voodoo,
on the biological effects associated with watching television, also
published in The Biologist, and his talk at the Houses of Parliament,
caused widespread public debate.
Dr Sigman has also written and presented scientific documentaries for
BBC1 and Radio 4 on the scientific basis of faith; the biology of hypnosis;
and on the effects of too much choice, and for Dispatches on Channel
4 on the hidden detrimental effects of moderate dieting.
Dr Sigman travels abroad frequently to observe
various cultures including Turkmenistan, Republic of Congo, Bhutan,
North Korea, Mali, Borneo, Tonga, Myanmar (Burma), Irian Jaya (West
Papua), Laos, Iran, Vietnam, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Far Eastern Siberia,
Sumatra, South Korea, Cambodia, Chile and others. Click
here to see photos.
Statement on Day Care
Article Published in The Biologist
