BBC Radio Solent’s Julian Clegg, Tuesday 18th March, 2009

Senior Clinical Psychologist and QoWL Director, Simon Easton was
interviewed on BBC Radio Solent where he chatted to DJ Julian Clegg about
recent research by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),
part of the UN's World Health Organisation which had found that women who
had worked shifts were 36% more likely to develop breast cancer. On the
basis of this research the Danish Government have been compensating
sufferers. Simon described how shift work and other non-standard working
hours were related to issues of quality of working life, including disrupted
sleep patterns and poorer work-life balance. Callers to the program gave
their story, and Simon commented on the ways different patterns of shift
work can play a key role in affecting someone's quality of working life.