Dr Neil Stanley

Independent Sleep Expert

Dr Neil Stanley is an independent sleep expert, and one of the UK's most experienced. He began his career in 1982 at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, and went on to spend more than a decade at the University of Surrey, where as Director of Sleep Research he designed and ran a 24-bed sleep laboratory. He has published 40 peer-reviewed papers on sleep, earned his PhD from Surrey in 2004, and served as Chairman of the British Sleep Society. He also helped write the European guidelines that accredited sleep centres across the continent still follow.

Neil doesn't work for Belledorm. He has been lecturing on sleep to healthcare professionals, businesses and the public, and is regularly called on by UK and international media for a straight answer on how sleep works. He writes for us as an independent voice, and his views are his own.

His latest book, A Sleep Divorce, written with Jennifer Adams, makes the case he has been making for twenty years: that sleeping apart is sometimes the kindest thing a couple can do for each other.