Robert Meadows joined the University of Surrey in 1999 to work at the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit, Medical Research Centre (HPRU/MRC) and moved to the Sociology department In October 2003, he took up a full-time lectureship in August 2008, was promoted to senior lecturer in April 2013, Reader in 2017 and Professor in 2021. He was the Department REF Lead for REF2021 and is currently the Director of Research.
Robert Meadows is an editor of the journal 'Sociology', a co-recorder of the Sociology and Social Policy Section of the British Science Association, and an advisor to the Sleep Charity. He is also a lecturer at Oxford University's MSc in Sleep Medicine. He has previously sat on NIHR panels, been elected twice to the executive committee of the British Sleep Society (2003-2006 & 2008-2011), and was an Invited member of the expert advisory group for Public Health England review of sleep and health (2021).