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Dr Sigman lectures on PSHE health education at schools and to parents as well as CPD and at medical schools, including UCL and to NHS doctors. He also provides training and talks for corporate organisations. His main interest is in protecting mental and physical health and preventing problems in areas including:

Smartphones & Screen Time: managing them/preventing dependency

Online Safety and Screen Time

Vaping: what you need to know now

'Soft' Drugs? Vaping, Cannabis, Ecstasy: mental health, addiction & school grades

Protecting Mental Health/Preventing Problems

Child anxiety: Anxiety and prevention

Sex and Relationships ... for Boys

Raising sons

Boys,Girls and Pornography

Understanding Boys, Sex and Relationships

Body Image and the Pressures of Physical Appearance

Doing your Best in Exams

Alcohol, a New Understanding: unrecognised effects/preventing problems

Parenting the Demanding Generation

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Dr Sigman has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Psychology, a Master of Science degree in The Neurophysiological Basis of Behaviour, and a Ph.D. in the field of the role of attention in autonomic nervous system self-regulation. He is a Chartered Biologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Scientist awarded by the Science Council, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood serving as a contributing author to five recent Parliamentary Group reports on mental health in childhood. He has also worked on teenage health education campaigns with the Department of Health. He is a peer reviewer for the Nature science journal Scientific Reports, medical journals Acta Paediatrica, Preventive Medicine, and Nature research journal Pediatric Research and the author of five books on PSHE-related topics including Getting Physical which won The Times Educational Supplement's Information Book Award.

Dr Sigman has twice been invited to address the European Parliament Working Group on the Quality of Childhood in the European Union, in Brussels, once on the impact of electronic media and screen dependency, and again on reducing alcohol misuse among children and adolescents. The EU Working Group subsequently published his reports on both of these subjects.

Dr Sigman was recently invited to write a paper for the British Medical Journal’s Archives of Disease in Childhood and an article for The BMJ on preventing future alcohol problems in children and young people and has another medical paper published in the science journal Nature: Pediatric Research, the official publication of the American Pediatric Society and the European Society for Paediatric Research. He has co-authored international research papers on adolescent sexual behaviour and adolescent obesogenic behaviours. The International Child Neurology Association scientific committee invited him to address the International Congress of Child Neurology on 'Risks to children's brain development today: screen dependency disorders'. His previous paper 'Screen Dependency Disorders: a new challenge for child neurology', is a detailed expansion upon that lecture, published in the Journal of the International Child Neurology Association.

Dr Sigman travels abroad frequently to observe various cultures, often volunteer teaching. Countries include North Korea, Turkmenistan, Republic of Congo, Bhutan, Iraq, Mali, Borneo, Tonga, Myanmar (Burma), Irian Jaya (West Papua), Laos, Iran, Vietnam, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Far Eastern Siberia, Sumatra, South Korea, Cambodia, Chile, Philippines, Jordan, Mongolia, Japan, China, Uganda, Romania and India.

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