Education
Crawford received a first-class honours degree in English language and literature in 1994 before completing his Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Birmingham in 1999.
Crawford received a first-class honours degree in English language and literature in 1994 before completing his Doctor of Philosophy 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 transport-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, United Kingdom. Crawford has appeared on major radio shows, such as the Today programme and Woman"s Hour on British Broadcasting Corporation 4, to discuss issues related to mental health, religion, and creative writing.
His third book was a single-author monograph, Politics and History in William Golding (University of Missouri, 2003). This major, critical work was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement (Medcalf, 2003) and a key chapter on ‘Literature of Atrocity’ anthologized in Bloom’s Guides to Lord of the Flies (2004.