Emma works as a Senior Lecturer in Health Research in the Post-Qualifying Healthcare Practice Department. She teaches on the modules LBR7339 Research: Methods of Enquiry and LBR7337/ LBR7467 MSc Dissertation. Additionally, Emma supervises PhD students.
Alongside developing future research about women’s health, Emma is working on producing academic publications from both the pilot-funded research project evaluating the Women’s Health Network in Bradford and the ESRC-funded Periods in a Pandemic project. She is also working closely with the Family, Gender, and Health research cluster in the Centre for Social Care, Health and Related Research (C-SCHaRR).
Emma is Book Reviews Editor for The Sociological Review Magazine.
Emma has previously designed and taught a range of modules across the Social Sciences, focusing on research methods, gender, social policy, crime, and the media at various HE institutions including the University of Warwick, Keele University, University of Nottingham, and Nottingham Trent University. She has also previously worked as a Lecturer in Academic Skills at BCU, providing support with areas including critical thinking and analysis, and specialising in level 7/8 academic writing and research support.
Emma has a PGCert in Higher Education and is a Fellow of Advance HE.
Emma teaches across the Health MScs on the modules:
- LBR7339 Research: Methods of Enquiry
- LBR7337/ LBR7467 MSc Dissertation
Emma’s postdoctoral research includes:
Emma continues to develop feminist research in the area of women’s health, focusing particularly on how women's lived experiences of health and illness can be transferred into practice and policy through public and patient engagement. Emma is currently researching women’s experiences of being diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood.
Emma welcomes enquiries about PhD supervision in a range of areas including gender, subjective experience, feminist research, mixed methods and qualitative methodologies.
- Feminist research
- Women’s health
- Women’s experiences of adulthood diagnoses of autism and ADHD
- Patient and public participation
- Knowledge mobilisation
- Anti-austerity activism
Emma currently supervises a PhD student who is exploring becoming a nurse under the ‘Future Nurse’ 2020 curriculum. She is also on an interdisciplinary supervising team for a student recipient of the Gertrude Aston Bowater Bequest (Doctoral Award) in the School of Art, exploring the clinical encounter for inpatients in locked NHS mental health units using artistic practice and queer methodologies.
Emma also supervises MSc students in their dissertations.
Books
Craddock, E. (2020) Living Against Austerity: A feminist investigation of doing activism and being activist, Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Articles
Craddock, E. (2022) Five ways you can get involved in fighting for women’s rights, The Conversation.
Craddock, E. (2022) A qualitative UK study exploring counterpublic engagement of marginalized women via a Women’s Health Network, Health Promotion International, 37(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac124
Craddock, E. (2022) “Centring Women’s Voices and Experiences in Healthcare”, FiLiA.
Craddock, E. (2020) ‘”Don’t judge a book by its cover? The value of looking closely at anti-austerity activist culture’, Discover Society, Available at: https://discoversociety.org/2020/05/06/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-the-value-of-looking-closely-at-anti-austerity-activist-culture/
Craddock, E. (2020) ‘We’re all in it together?” Austerity, Covid-19, and persistent inequalities’ Discover Society.
Craddock, E. (2020) ‘What is feminist research and why do we need it?’ FiLiA
Craddock, E. (2019) ‘Exploring what spaces of serendipity, identity, and success can teach us: A review of ’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (11): 35-41.
Craddock, E. (2019) “The Uncomfortable Transformation of Discomfort in the Neoliberal Higher Education Context.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (10): 107-110.
Craddock, E. (2019) ‘What is the point of anti-austerity activism? Exploring the motivating and sustaining emotional forces of political participation’, Interface, 11(1), pp. 62-88
Craddock, E. (2018) ‘Doing “enough” of the ‘right’ thing: The gendered dimension of the ‘ideal activist’ identity and its negative emotional consequences, Social Movement Studies, 18(2), pp. 137-153.
Cradock, E. (2016) ‘Caring about and for the cuts: A case study of the gendered dimension of austerity and anti-austerity activism’, Gender, Work and Organization, 21 (1): 69-82.
Craddock, E. (2014) ‘Dreaming the Future: What it Means to be Human’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3 (3): 52-54.
Craddock, E. (2014) 'Seeing the Human in Protest', Laguna, Feb. 24. 2014. Web.
Craddock, E. (2012) 'Reflections on the interdisciplinarity project: A response to an interview with Carl Mitcham and a keynote address by Stephen Frosh', Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 2 (1): 1-4.
Sandstrom, Gregory, Thomas Basbøll, Emma Craddock and Eric O. Scott (2012) ‘Intelligent design as social epistemology: Collective judgment forum’, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 1 (7): 1-11.
Research Reports
Williams, G., Craddock, E., and Weckesser, A. (2022) Periods in a Pandemic: How UK period poverty initiatives have mitigated Covid-19 challenges, available at: https://bcuassets.blob.core.windows.net/docs/periods-in-a-pandemic-final-report-jan2022-132871415463701935.pdf
Craddock, E. (2021) An Evaluation of the Women’s Health Network Final Report, available at: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/Download/Asset/ffc9b5a0-dce4-ed11-8e8b-0022481bec8d
Book Chapters
Craddock, E. (2018) ‘Ethnography’ in The Encyclopaedia of Social Theory (Chief Editor: Bryan S. Turner), Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
Craddock, E. (2016) ‘Dreaming the Future’, in Collier, J.H. (ed.), The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision, London: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 219-226.
Book Reviews
Craddock, E. (2018) ‘Feeling Austere: Book review of Forkert’s Austerity as Public Mood: Social Anxieties and Social Struggles, Cultural Politics Journal.
Craddock, E. (2015) Scalambrino, Frank, Adam Riggio, Emma Craddock and Susan Dieleman, ‘The Future of Enlightenment? Review of Heath’s Enlightenment 2.0’, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 2: 33-36
Student reviewer for The Times Higher Education Publication, May 2010
