Paul Crawford (academic)

Paul Crawford
Born	(1963-04-24) 24 April 1963 Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nationality	UK
Fields	Health Humanities
Institutions	University of Nottingham
Alma mater	University of Birmingham

Paul Crawford FRSA, FAcSS (born 1963) is an English academic and writer.

Academic career

Crawford received a first-class honours degree in English language and literature in 1994 before completing his PhD at The University of Birmingham in 1999. His thesis on the novelist William Golding was funded by the British Academy. Crawford joined The University of Nottingham in 2001 and co-founded the Health Language Research Group. A specialist in trans-disciplinary research related to healthcare, his recent work is focused on expanding field of Health Humanities. In 2008, he co-founded madnessandliterature.org. In 2011, he co-founded healthhumanities.org. He is currently Director of the Centre for Social Futures, Institute of Mental Health, and leads both Nottingham Health Humanities and the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery large programme with Connected Communities, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.

Writings

Crawford has written or co-written nine books. His first book, Communicating Care: The Language of Nursing (Nelson Thornes, 1998)^[1] was the first volume worldwide on non-medical discourse in healthcare. His second book was the novel, Nothing Purple, Nothing Black (The Book Guild, 2002),^[2] optioned for film by British film producer, Jack Emery (The Drama House, London/ Florida). His third book was a single-author monograph, Politics and History in William Golding (University of Missouri, 2003).^[3] This major, critical work was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement (Medcalf, 2003)^[4] and a key chapter on ‘Literature of Atrocity’ anthologized in Bloom’s Guides to Lord of the Flies (2004; 2008).^[5][6] It also led to Crawford writing the entry for Golding in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (Oxford University Press, 2006). His fourth book, Evidence Based Research: Dilemmas and Debates in Healthcare (Open University Press, 2003)^[7] was Highly Commended in the British Medical Association (BMA) Book Competition for 2004. His fifth book, Storytelling in Therapy (Nelson Thornes, 2004)^[8] explores the use of short stories in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. His sixth book, Communication in Clinical Settings (Nelson Thornes, 2006)^[9] offers a new model for health communication (Brief, Ordinary and Effective Model). His seventh book, Evidence-based Health Communication (Open University Press, 2006)^[10] advances the case for health communication research and data-driven learning. His eighth book is Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010).^[11] His most recent book is Health Humanities (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015).^[12]

Radio

Crawford has appeared on major radio shows, such as the Today programme and Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, to discuss issues related to mental health, religion, and creative writing.^[13][14]

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