John is retired from teaching after 25 years in the post of Senior Lecturer in Instrumentation and Control Engineering. During that time and with previous industrial experience, he was involved in Condition Monitoring research in areas such as stress analysis by whole-field laser speckle interferometry, thermal imaging, ultrasonics, sound and vibration in rotating machines, and rolling element bearing failure prediction, in collaboration with the petrochemical, steel and nuclear power industries. He was awarded the PhD for his contribution to characterizing respiratory sounds in relation to sleep-disordered breathing. He is now a Research Associate at Swansea Metropolitan University, and is developing non-invasive acoustic analysis methods for recognising symptoms for a variety of upper and lower respiratory disease.

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Selected publications:

• Beeton R J and Wells Signal analysis of snoring 1st International Symposium on Audible Acoustics in Medicine and Physiology. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA September 8, 9, 2008

• Beeton R J, Wells I, Ebden P, Whittet H B and Clarke J. (2007) Snore site discrimination using statistical moments of free field snoring sounds recorded during sleep nasendoscopy. Physiol. Meas. 28 1225-1236

• Hirst G R, Beeton J, Guerrero K, Emery S J, and Lucas M G, (2007) Single channel and multichannel water perfusion urethal pressure profilometry in a bench model. Eur.Urol,Supp, 6(2) 104

• Beeton R J and Wells I, (2007) Predictive value of the acoustic analysis of snoring sounds for identifying sleep-arousal events. 17th QRM Int. Conf. Proc. St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK. 22-23 March. 106-110

• Beeton R J, Brown R D H, and Thomas R (2004). Acoustic analysis of human snores. 15th QRM Int. Conf. Proc. St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK. 18-19 March. 185-189