Paul Crawford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Crawford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawford |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWFORD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7484-8328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mapping compassion in the general adult population: Religious and secular compassionate acts in social relationships and organizational culture
Background: Compassion, defined as recognizing suffering and acting to alleviate it, is increasingly acknowledged as a public health asset that enhances resilience, trust, and cooperation. Shown through interpersonal care, ethical leadership, and institutional backing, compassion influences social relationships and organizational culture, although interpretations differ across religious, secular, and cultural contexts. Clarifying how compassion i…
Mental health advice on TikTok
In this paper, we provide the first, large-scale corpus-pragmatic analysis of mental health advice by social media influencers on TikTok. We identify advice-giving in large datasets focusing on if-conditionals as a specific form that allows us to analyse how the audience is positioned relative to a need and the solution which is then proposed. To identify the different ways in which mental health issues are presented, we use an adapted version of…
Multimodal Analysis of Stories Told by Mental Health Influencers on TikTok
BACKGROUND: Social media influencers are powerful storytellers who function as conduits of public health communication and may contribute significantly to young people's mental health literacy. Influencers who discuss mental health include health professionals, wellness practitioners and experts by lived experience. As yet, there has been no multimodal analysis of how these three influencer types narrate mental health issues. This study criticall…
Transitioning from active duty to military retirement: Challenges impacting diabetes self-management
Objectives: Military retirement happens early in the lifespan presenting a unique transition that challenges chronic illness. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that military retirees experience as they transition from active duty to military retirement that they perceive as inhibiting their ability to manage type 2 diabetes (T2DM) or pre-diabetes (preDM) and/or which increase their disease risk. Methods: Twenty veterans diagnos…
Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities
Introduction: Trauma and Textualities
Capoeira for beginners: Self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas
Capoeira could be defined as a Brazilian martial art and game to be played. This research explored how capoeira play might be considered to facilitate connectedness amongst newly-recruited persons, plus any other ramifications of capoeira involvement. A beginners’ course of capoeira was provided to participants, free of charge, in an English city in the West Midlands—new capoeiristas in a new venue for capoeira. Researchers attended classes to co…
The use of music in mutual recovery: A qualitative pilot study
Mutual recovery involves caregivers and their clients mutually participating in artistic endeavours to foster resilience in both parties. A qualitative enquiry into the use of group music making (referred to as a ‘Music Jam’) between both the caregivers and clients at a residential treatment facility for adults with developmental disabilities and schizophrenia was conducted. The purpose of this study was to examine whether shared musical endeavou…
Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: A pilot study
The mutual recovery program could be a creative and effective approach to improve mental health in older community-dwelling adults with depressive symptom
Cognitive and Social Functioning Correlates of Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness
Practical compassions: Repertoires of Practice and Compassion Talk in Acute Mental Healthcare
This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology and notions of emotional labour we identify two contrasting interpretive repertoires in discussions of compassion. The first, the practical compassion repertoire, evokes the practical, physical and bodily aspects of compassion…
The Language of Compassion in Acute Mental Health Care
In this article we examine the language of compassion in acute mental health care in the United Kingdom. Compassion is commonly defined as being sensitive to the suffering of others and showing a commitment to relieve it, yet we know little about how this is demonstrated in health professional language and how it is situated in the context of acute mental health care services. We report on a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 20 acute mental h…
Everyday Life, Culture, and Recovery: Carer Experiences in Care Homes for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
Nutritional altruism and functional food: Lay discourses on probiotics
This exploratory study set out to analyse discourse about 'friendly bacteria' by scrutinising data from focus groups convened to discuss participants' reasons for choosing probiotic food products and to set their use of probiotics in context in relation to other food choices. In discussing food choice and dietary patterns, participants in the five focus groups reported here drew on a major interpretive repertoire - that of 'nutritional altruism' …
Health, hygiene and biosecurity: Tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry
Since 1997 the world has been facing the threat of a human influenza pandemic that may be caused by an avian virus and the poultry industry around the globe has been grappling with the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1, or in more informal terms bird flu. The UK poultry industry has lived with and through this threat and its consequences since 2005. This study investigates knowledge claims about health, hygiene and biosecurity as t…
Literature and Madness: Fiction for Students and Professionals
Incomprehensibility in the Narratives of Individuals With a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
The fact that individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have difficulties in terms of ordering and communicating their life stories is well known, and undoubtedly these dysfunctions are linked to the experience of alienation and isolation. In this article we contribute to the debate by studying life narratives of ten patients with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia living in care homes in Andalusia, Spain. Patients were selected through me…
Post antibiotic apocalypse: Discourses of mutation in narratives of MRSA
In this paper we will consider the question of mutation as it is manifested in press coverage of MRSA in UK hospitals. This represents a fertile field of discourse which brings into focus issues relating to microbes, people and working practices as well as the concepts of risk and vulnerability. A regular feature of reporting has been the presence of explanations for drug resistance involving repeated random mutations of the microbe to achieve pr…
The ‘moral careers’ of microbes and the rise of the matrons: An analysis of UK national press coverage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 1995–2006
This paper examines similarities and differences in media discourses relating to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at three important points in the development of the bacterium and its perception by the public over the last decade. We analyse three increasingly large sets of texts from the national media using a variety of complementary qualitative and quantitative methods. As such this paper exploits, develops and empirically as…
The Dead Parrot and the Dying Swan: The Role of Metaphor Scenarios in UK Press Coverage of Avian Flu in the UK in 2005–2006
This article takes two events in the ongoing story of a predicted UK avian flu epidemic—“the dead parrot” (October 2005) and “the dying swan” (April 2006)—and examines the role and use of three interconnected metaphor scenarios (related to the notions of “journey,” “war,” and “house”) in the UK press coverage about avian influenza in 2005 and 2006. These represent fundamental descriptive and explanatory structures that derive from culturally or p…
The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work
Soft authority: Ecologies of Infection Management in the Working Lives of Modern Matrons and Infection Control Staff
This paper discusses the role of modern matrons and their work in the reduction of health care acquired infections. Based on in-depth interviews with 10 matrons in a health care trust in the UK Midlands region, we explore how they construe their working lives and their view of the powers they have to enhance cleanliness and reduce infection. Despite claims in policy documents that modern matrons would have considerable authority, participants fel…
Am I normal?' Teenagers, sexual health and the internet
The most significant lessons about the Most Significant Change technique
This article presents field-based insights into the application of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique as a method to monitor social change resulting from a development intervention. Documentation of this innovative qualitative monitoring technique is slowly growing, but is mostly limited to grey literature. In particular, there is a lack of rigorous investigation to assess the complexities and challenges of applying the technique with in…
Excidii Aconis gestorum collectio; Magister Thadeus civis Neapolitanus, Ystoria de desolatione et conculcatione civitatis Acconensis et tocius Terre Sancte . R. B. C. Huygens , A. Forey , D. C. Nicoll…
Blurred roles and permeable boundaries: The experience of multidisciplinary working in community mental health
This paper reports on an investigation of three interdisciplinary mental health teams. The discussion of the responses highlights the boundaries that exist between different professional roles and areas of responsibility. Whereas there is some evidence of role blurring, which was welcomed by a few respondents, others sought to preserve their own professional identity within the multidisciplinary environment. In a paradoxical sense, the lack of ma…
Am I normal?' Teenagers, sexual health and the internet
The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work
Post antibiotic apocalypse: Discourses of mutation in narratives of MRSA
In this paper we will consider the question of mutation as it is manifested in press coverage of MRSA in UK hospitals. This represents a fertile field of discourse which brings into focus issues relating to microbes, people and working practices as well as the concepts of risk and vulnerability. A regular feature of reporting has been the presence of explanations for drug resistance involving repeated random mutations of the microbe to achieve pr…
The clinical governance of the soul: Deep Management' and the Self-Regulating Subject in Integrated Community Mental Health Teams
The Language of Compassion in Acute Mental Health Care
In this article we examine the language of compassion in acute mental health care in the United Kingdom. Compassion is commonly defined as being sensitive to the suffering of others and showing a commitment to relieve it, yet we know little about how this is demonstrated in health professional language and how it is situated in the context of acute mental health care services. We report on a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 20 acute mental h…
Incomprehensibility in the Narratives of Individuals With a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
The fact that individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have difficulties in terms of ordering and communicating their life stories is well known, and undoubtedly these dysfunctions are linked to the experience of alienation and isolation. In this article we contribute to the debate by studying life narratives of ten patients with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia living in care homes in Andalusia, Spain. Patients were selected through me…
Interaction, language and the "narrative turn" in psychotherapy and psychiatry
Practical compassions: Repertoires of Practice and Compassion Talk in Acute Mental Healthcare
This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology and notions of emotional labour we identify two contrasting interpretive repertoires in discussions of compassion. The first, the practical compassion repertoire, evokes the practical, physical and bodily aspects of compassion…
Everyday Life, Culture, and Recovery: Carer Experiences in Care Homes for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
Nutritional altruism and functional food: Lay discourses on probiotics
This exploratory study set out to analyse discourse about 'friendly bacteria' by scrutinising data from focus groups convened to discuss participants' reasons for choosing probiotic food products and to set their use of probiotics in context in relation to other food choices. In discussing food choice and dietary patterns, participants in the five focus groups reported here drew on a major interpretive repertoire - that of 'nutritional altruism' …
The most significant lessons about the Most Significant Change technique
This article presents field-based insights into the application of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique as a method to monitor social change resulting from a development intervention. Documentation of this innovative qualitative monitoring technique is slowly growing, but is mostly limited to grey literature. In particular, there is a lack of rigorous investigation to assess the complexities and challenges of applying the technique with in…
Cognitive and Social Functioning Correlates of Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness
Synthetic Indices: A Method for Evaluating Aid Project Effectiveness
Demands are increasingly being placed on aid agencies to demonstrate impact, but the measurement and attribution of non-tangible changes in complex environments are problematic. Synthetic indices are frequently used by statisticians in other contexts to capture complex changes and may prove useful to describe changes effected by aid projects. A hierarchy of hypotheses is presented to describe a case-study project. The construction of synthetic in…
Reluctant empiricists: Community mental health nurses and the art of evidence-based praxis
The National Service Framework for Mental Health (1999) emphasizes the need for a culture of evidence-based practice (EBP) in mental health care. However, there is relatively little research addressing EBP from the perspective of community mental health nurses and we are still unsure of why the uptake of this style of working has been slow. This paper suggests that rather than thinking in terms of 'barriers' to the uptake of EBP, the issue may be…
Soft authority: Ecologies of Infection Management in the Working Lives of Modern Matrons and Infection Control Staff
This paper discusses the role of modern matrons and their work in the reduction of health care acquired infections. Based on in-depth interviews with 10 matrons in a health care trust in the UK Midlands region, we explore how they construe their working lives and their view of the powers they have to enhance cleanliness and reduce infection. Despite claims in policy documents that modern matrons would have considerable authority, participants fel…
A Footnote on Courts for Trial of Negroes in Colonial Pennsylvania
Most Americans appear to have begun their study of American history with a cursory account of the voyage of the Mayflower, then the Pilgrims' celebration of the First Thanksgiving, and moved rapidly through the French and Indian War to the American Revolution with its slogan of No Taxation Without Representation, the hardships of George Washington and his troops at Valley Forge, the traitorous behavior of Benedict Arnold contrasted with that of t…
Interaction, language and the "narrative turn" in psychotherapy and psychiatry
Blurred roles and permeable boundaries: The experience of multidisciplinary working in community mental health
This paper reports on an investigation of three interdisciplinary mental health teams. The discussion of the responses highlights the boundaries that exist between different professional roles and areas of responsibility. Whereas there is some evidence of role blurring, which was welcomed by a few respondents, others sought to preserve their own professional identity within the multidisciplinary environment. In a paradoxical sense, the lack of ma…
Reluctant empiricists: Community mental health nurses and the art of evidence-based praxis
The National Service Framework for Mental Health (1999) emphasizes the need for a culture of evidence-based practice (EBP) in mental health care. However, there is relatively little research addressing EBP from the perspective of community mental health nurses and we are still unsure of why the uptake of this style of working has been slow. This paper suggests that rather than thinking in terms of 'barriers' to the uptake of EBP, the issue may be…
The clinical governance of the soul: Deep Management' and the Self-Regulating Subject in Integrated Community Mental Health Teams
Synthetic Indices: A Method for Evaluating Aid Project Effectiveness
Demands are increasingly being placed on aid agencies to demonstrate impact, but the measurement and attribution of non-tangible changes in complex environments are problematic. Synthetic indices are frequently used by statisticians in other contexts to capture complex changes and may prove useful to describe changes effected by aid projects. A hierarchy of hypotheses is presented to describe a case-study project. The construction of synthetic in…
Excidii Aconis gestorum collectio; Magister Thadeus civis Neapolitanus, Ystoria de desolatione et conculcatione civitatis Acconensis et tocius Terre Sancte . R. B. C. Huygens , A. Forey , D. C. Nicoll…
Am I normal?' Teenagers, sexual health and the internet
The most significant lessons about the Most Significant Change technique
This article presents field-based insights into the application of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique as a method to monitor social change resulting from a development intervention. Documentation of this innovative qualitative monitoring technique is slowly growing, but is mostly limited to grey literature. In particular, there is a lack of rigorous investigation to assess the complexities and challenges of applying the technique with in…
The ‘moral careers’ of microbes and the rise of the matrons: An analysis of UK national press coverage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 1995–2006
This paper examines similarities and differences in media discourses relating to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at three important points in the development of the bacterium and its perception by the public over the last decade. We analyse three increasingly large sets of texts from the national media using a variety of complementary qualitative and quantitative methods. As such this paper exploits, develops and empirically as…
The Dead Parrot and the Dying Swan: The Role of Metaphor Scenarios in UK Press Coverage of Avian Flu in the UK in 2005–2006
This article takes two events in the ongoing story of a predicted UK avian flu epidemic—“the dead parrot” (October 2005) and “the dying swan” (April 2006)—and examines the role and use of three interconnected metaphor scenarios (related to the notions of “journey,” “war,” and “house”) in the UK press coverage about avian influenza in 2005 and 2006. These represent fundamental descriptive and explanatory structures that derive from culturally or p…
The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work
Soft authority: Ecologies of Infection Management in the Working Lives of Modern Matrons and Infection Control Staff
This paper discusses the role of modern matrons and their work in the reduction of health care acquired infections. Based on in-depth interviews with 10 matrons in a health care trust in the UK Midlands region, we explore how they construe their working lives and their view of the powers they have to enhance cleanliness and reduce infection. Despite claims in policy documents that modern matrons would have considerable authority, participants fel…
Health, hygiene and biosecurity: Tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry
Since 1997 the world has been facing the threat of a human influenza pandemic that may be caused by an avian virus and the poultry industry around the globe has been grappling with the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1, or in more informal terms bird flu. The UK poultry industry has lived with and through this threat and its consequences since 2005. This study investigates knowledge claims about health, hygiene and biosecurity as t…
Literature and Madness: Fiction for Students and Professionals
Incomprehensibility in the Narratives of Individuals With a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
The fact that individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have difficulties in terms of ordering and communicating their life stories is well known, and undoubtedly these dysfunctions are linked to the experience of alienation and isolation. In this article we contribute to the debate by studying life narratives of ten patients with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia living in care homes in Andalusia, Spain. Patients were selected through me…
Post antibiotic apocalypse: Discourses of mutation in narratives of MRSA
In this paper we will consider the question of mutation as it is manifested in press coverage of MRSA in UK hospitals. This represents a fertile field of discourse which brings into focus issues relating to microbes, people and working practices as well as the concepts of risk and vulnerability. A regular feature of reporting has been the presence of explanations for drug resistance involving repeated random mutations of the microbe to achieve pr…
Nutritional altruism and functional food: Lay discourses on probiotics
This exploratory study set out to analyse discourse about 'friendly bacteria' by scrutinising data from focus groups convened to discuss participants' reasons for choosing probiotic food products and to set their use of probiotics in context in relation to other food choices. In discussing food choice and dietary patterns, participants in the five focus groups reported here drew on a major interpretive repertoire - that of 'nutritional altruism' …
Everyday Life, Culture, and Recovery: Carer Experiences in Care Homes for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
The Language of Compassion in Acute Mental Health Care
In this article we examine the language of compassion in acute mental health care in the United Kingdom. Compassion is commonly defined as being sensitive to the suffering of others and showing a commitment to relieve it, yet we know little about how this is demonstrated in health professional language and how it is situated in the context of acute mental health care services. We report on a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 20 acute mental h…
Practical compassions: Repertoires of Practice and Compassion Talk in Acute Mental Healthcare
This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology and notions of emotional labour we identify two contrasting interpretive repertoires in discussions of compassion. The first, the practical compassion repertoire, evokes the practical, physical and bodily aspects of compassion…
Cognitive and Social Functioning Correlates of Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness
The use of music in mutual recovery: A qualitative pilot study
Mutual recovery involves caregivers and their clients mutually participating in artistic endeavours to foster resilience in both parties. A qualitative enquiry into the use of group music making (referred to as a ‘Music Jam’) between both the caregivers and clients at a residential treatment facility for adults with developmental disabilities and schizophrenia was conducted. The purpose of this study was to examine whether shared musical endeavou…
Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: A pilot study
The mutual recovery program could be a creative and effective approach to improve mental health in older community-dwelling adults with depressive symptom
Capoeira for beginners: Self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas
Capoeira could be defined as a Brazilian martial art and game to be played. This research explored how capoeira play might be considered to facilitate connectedness amongst newly-recruited persons, plus any other ramifications of capoeira involvement. A beginners’ course of capoeira was provided to participants, free of charge, in an English city in the West Midlands—new capoeiristas in a new venue for capoeira. Researchers attended classes to co…
Medicine (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Mental health (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Psychotherapist (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Health care (6 works)