Who We Are
Professor Paul Crawford
Professor Paul Crawford holds a personal chair in Health Humanities at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy at the University of Nottingham. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health and Visiting Professor of Health Communication at both the Medical Faculty, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is Co-Founder (with Professor Ron Carter) and chair of the Health Language Research Group at the University of Nottingham, bringing together academics and clinicians to advance applied linguistics in health care settings. In 2008 he was awarded a Lord Dearing Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Crawford’s scholarship in the core areas of literature, linguistics, mental health and the philosophy of research has gained attention at national and international levels, particularly in Canada, North America, Europe and Australia. He has originated and led interdisciplinary, innovative projects that advance multimodal and pragmatic approaches to health language study and health humanities generally.
Crawford has held grants from The British Academy, ESRC, AHRC and The Leverhulme Trust. He presents keynote and plenary lectures at international conferences and has written numerous journal papers, book chapters and 7 books, including: Communicating Care (Nelson Thornes, 1998); Nothing Purple, Nothing Black (The Book Guild, 2002); Politics and History in William Golding (University of Missouri, 2003); Evidence Based Research (Open University Press, 2003), which was Highly Commended in the BMA Book Competition for 2004; Storytelling in Therapy (Nelson Thornes, 2004); Evidence Based Health Communication (Open University Press, 2006); Communication in Clinical Settings (Nelson Thornes, 2006). He has been commissioned to co-write Literature and Madness: Post-war British and American Fiction (Palgrave, London). Crawford’s major, critical work on the novelist William Golding was reviewed in the TLS and led to a reprinted chapter in the prestigious Bloom’s Guides (Lord of the Flies, Chelsea House, 2004; 2008) and a commissioned entry on Golding in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (OUP, 2006). Crawford has written papers on the ‘mad poet’ John Clare and nurse-writer Mary Seacole. He has also written articles for The Guardian and various regional newspapers. His novel about mental illness, Nothing Purple, Nothing Black, resulted in various interviews in national media and an option for film by the British film producer, Jack Emery (The Drama House, London/ Florida). His second novel, Hair of the Dog, is represented by Bell, Lomax & Moreton, London.
Charley Baker
Charley Baker is a University Teacher at the University of Nottingham where she teaches mental health nursing students. Charley has previously held a 3 year Leverhulme Trust funded position as a Research Associate, examining representations of madness in post-war UK and US fiction. Her co-authored book, Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction, is due for publication in October 2010 with Palgrave. Charley is co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded international Madness and Literature Network (www.madnessandliterature.org). She has a BA and MA in literature and is working on her PhD in postmodern fiction and psychosis. During her studies, Charley worked in both community adult and inpatient adolescent mental health for the NHS, giving her both literary and clinical insights into mental illnesses. She has spoken and taught extensively on issues of representations of mental illness in literature, and also has research interests in trauma, self injury and suicide – both as clinically defined and as represented in literature and culture – and gender and mental health. She was invited contributor and literary advisor for a psychiatry textbook, Psychiatry PRN (Oxford University Press 2009), has a chapter on rape in Angela Carter's fiction being published by Rodopi in the forthcoming Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction, and writes regularly for journals such as Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Charley has been awarded the title of Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health.
Dr Brian Brown
Dr Brian Brown is Reader in Health Communication at De Montfort University. He has completed ten books and over fifty refereed journal articles. Most notably, his books have included Evidence based health communication (with P. Crawford and R. Carter, Open University Press, 2006) and the prizewinning Evidence based Research: Dilemmas and debates in heath care (with P. Crawford and C. Hicks, Buckingham: Open University Press, 2003). As well as health care, his work has ranged across fields such as linguistics, education and sociology. The core of his work has focused on the interpretation of practitioner and client experiences in health care, exploring how this may be understood with a view to improving practice and with regard to theoretical development in the social sciences, particularly concerning notions of governmentality and habitus from Foucauldian and Bourdieusian sociology and how the analysis of everyday experience can offer novel theoretical developments. Notably this has included The habitus of hygiene (with P. Crawford, B. Nerlich and N. Koteyko, Social Science and Medicine, 67: 1047-1055) 'Post antibiotic apocalypse’: Discourses of mutation in narratives of MRSA, (with Paul Crawford, Sociology of Health and Illness 31 (4) (in press), Soft authority: Ecologies of infection management in the working lives of modern matrons and infection control staff, (with Paul Crawford, Sociology of Health and Illness, 30: 756-771), The clinical governance of the soul (with P. Crawford, Social Science and Medicine 55: 67-81) and Clinical governmentality (with P. Crawford and L. Mullany, Journal of Applied Linguistics 2: 273-298).
Professor Ronald Carter
Professor Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English Studies. His main research interests are in the broad field of applied linguistics and he has written and edited over thirty books and one hundred papers in this field. This includes work on corpus and computational linguistics, discourse-based grammar, English vocabulary and the interface between language and literature. In terms of literature and language, his main interest is in the relationship between language and creativity (Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk Routledge, 2004) He is currently working on two ESRC-funded e-social science projects, researching the multi-modal relationship between language, gesture and everyday communication. He works as a member of a number of interdisciplinary research groups in language and health communication, professional communication and e-social science involving co-researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and the Schools of Sociology and Social Policy, Pharmacy and Nursing and - in connection with the ESRC multi-modal research projects - with research teams in Psychology and Computer Science.
Dr Maurice Lipsedge M Phil FRCP FRCPsych FFOM (Hon)
Dr Lipsedge has been consultant in general adult psychiatry since 1974, initially at the City and Hackney Health District and from 1980 at Guy’s Hospital. He retired from the national Health Service at the age of sixty-five in 2001 and is currently an Emeritus Consultant at the South London Maudsley NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine. He has continued to teach psychiatry to medical students on a voluntary basis and is Founder and Course Adviser in the Diploma and MSc in Occupational Psychiatry and Psychology at King’s College, London. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and an Honorary Member of the Society of Occupational Medicine.
He has written a large number of books and papers, including the forthcoming ‘Psychiatry PRN’ (eds. Sarah Stringer, Laurence Church, Susan Davison and Maurice Lipsedge, Oxford University Press, March 2009) and the 10th edition of Hunter’s ‘Diseases of Occupations’ (Due 2009). Other publications include ‘Psychiatric aspects of PHI claims’. Transactions of the Assurance Medical Society, 19, 18-35, 1991 as well as a chapter for ‘Medical Selection of Life Risks’, Psychiatric Disorders, 783-805 (Brackenridge, R D C and Elder, W J), 3rd edition, 1992, Stockton Press. He has published chapters in 3 standard texts that deal, amongst other things, with the employability of people with medical (including psychiatric) disorders (Lipsedge, M and Smith, G, 1995. Stress, Alcohol and Drug Abuse in ‘Fitness for Work’, Cox, RAF, Edwards, FC and McCallum, RI (eds.), 2nd edition, 396-413, Oxford Medical Publications; Lipsedge, M and Kearns, J, 2000. Psychiatric Disorders in ‘Fitness for Work’, Cox, RAF, Edwards, FC and McCallum, RI (eds.), 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press; Lipsedge, M, 2000. Bullying, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Violence in the Workplace in ‘Hunter’s Diseases of Occupations’, Adams, P, Baxter, P, Aw, TC, Cockroft, A and Harrington, JM (eds.), 9th edition, Arnold, London) and has co-edited ‘Work and Mental Health: An Employer’s Guide’, 2002, published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is also co-author of a textbook of psychiatry (Rees, I, Lipsedge, M and Ball, C (eds.), 1997, ‘Textbook of Psychiatry’, Arnold, London). He is also Editor of the psychiatric section of ‘Medical Masterclass’ (2001, Blackwells, Royal college of Physicians).
He has a long-standing interest in assisting psychiatric patients to return to the workplace. He was the co-founder of the Speedwell Project in Deptford in the 1980s. This project was designed to assist patients, mainly with schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder or severe affective disorder to train for or return to the workplace. He also prepared a report on the employability of psychiatric patients for the Manpower Services Commission (Lipsedge, M and Summerfield, A B, February 1987. The employment rehabilitation needs of the mentally ill. Final report to Manpower Services Commission). More recently he has served on the Employment Working Party of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Anti-Stigma Campaign.