Dr Aric Sigman

About Aric

Dr Aric Sigman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Society of Biology and has received the Chartered Scientist award from the Science Council. He was recently invited by the European Parliament Working Group on the Quality of Childhood, to address MEPs at the European Parliament in Brussels. He has worked on teenage health education campaigns with the Department of Health. Beyond his credentials, he has to face the issue of alcohol, electronic media and the pressures of physical appearance with his own four children, and finds it easy to connect with young people and children.



An American, Dr Sigman has lived in Britain for many years. He has worked in the pop music industry and seen how the pressures and expectations of celebrity culture lead to problems including eating disorders and alcohol abuse and how the images children and young people see of smiling successful pop singers and celebrities don’t show the reality. He has a long history of health education work for children and young people as the psychologist on the BBC’s Going Live and then Live & Kicking for most of the 1990s. He also wrote health and psychology advice columns for several BBC children’s and teenage magazines. His health and psychology book Getting Physical won The Times Educational Supplement's Information Book Award. He was recently the Brain and Behaviour columnist for The Times Educational Supplement magazine. His new book The Spoilt Generation: why restoring authority will make children and society happier addressing many areas of parenting and child wellbeing including alcohol has received a considerable degree of national news coverage. On the subject of the effects of electronic media, Dr Sigman has published two papers in Biologist, the journal of the Society of Biology along with a highly acclaimed book Remotely Controlled and has spoken at the Houses of Parliament.

Dr Sigman has a unique ability to explain things using impartial new scientific information to make children and young people think and decide for themselves.