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鈥檚 health, Emma is working on producing academic publications from both the pilot-funded research project evaluating the Women鈥檚 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鈥檚 postdoctoral research includes:
Emma continues to develop feminist research in the area of women鈥檚 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鈥檚 experiences of being diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood.
Emma听welcomes enquiries about PhD supervision in a range of areas including gender, subjective experience, feminist research, mixed methods and qualitative methodologies.听
- Feminist research
- Women鈥檚 health
- Women鈥檚 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 鈥楩uture Nurse鈥� 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听also supervises MSc students in their dissertations.
Books
Craddock, E. (2020)听Living Against Austerity: A feminist investigation of doing activism and being activist,听Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Articles
Craddock, E. (2022) , The Conversation.
Craddock, E. (2022)听,听Health Promotion International, 37(4),听
Craddock, E. (2022)听 FiLiA.听
Craddock, E. (2020) 鈥樷�滵on鈥檛 judge a book by its cover? The value of looking closely at anti-austerity activist culture鈥�, Discover Society.
Craddock, E. (2020)听鈥榃e鈥檙e all in it together?鈥� Austerity, Covid-19, and persistent inequalities鈥櫶鼶iscover Society.
Craddock, E. (2020)听听FiLiA
Craddock, E.听(2019)听听Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (11): 35-41.
Craddock, E. (2019) 鈥溾�澨�Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective听8 (10): 107-110.
Craddock, E.听(2019) 鈥樷��, Interface, 11(1), pp. 62-88
Craddock, E.听(2018)听, Social Movement Studies, 18(2), pp. 137-153.听
Cradock, E.听(2016) 鈥楥aring about and for the cuts: A case study of the gendered dimension of austerity and anti-austerity activism鈥�,听Gender, Work and Organization,听21 (1): 69-82.
Craddock,听E.听听(2014) 鈥楧reaming the Future: What it Means to be Human鈥櫶�Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective听3 (3): 52-54.
Craddock, E. (2014) 'Seeing the Human in Protest',听Laguna, Feb. 24. 2014. Web.
Craddock, E.听(2012) 'Reflections on the interdisciplinarity project: A response to an interview with Carl Mitcham and a keynote address by Stephen Frosh',听Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective听2 (1): 1-4.
Sandstrom, Gregory, Thomas Basb酶ll,听Emma Craddock听and Eric O. Scott (2012) 鈥業ntelligent design as social epistemology: Collective judgment forum鈥�,听Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective听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:
Craddock, E. (2021) An Evaluation of the Women鈥檚 Health Network Final Report, available at:听/Download/Asset/ffc9b5a0-dce4-ed11-8e8b-0022481bec8d
Book Chapters
Craddock, E.听(2018) 鈥楨thnography鈥� in听The Encyclopaedia of Social Theory听(Chief Editor: Bryan S. Turner), Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
Craddock, E. (2016) 鈥楧reaming the Future鈥�,听in听Collier, J.H. (ed.),听The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision,听London: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 219-226.
Book Reviews
Craddock, E.听(2018) 鈥楩eeling Austere: Book review of Forkert鈥檚听Austerity as Public Mood: Social Anxieties and Social Struggles, Cultural Politics Journal.
Craddock, E. (2015) Scalambrino, Frank, Adam Riggio, Emma Craddock and Susan Dieleman, 鈥楾he Future of Enlightenment? Review of Heath鈥檚听Enlightenment 2.0鈥�,听Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective听4, no. 2: 33-36
Student reviewer for听The Times Higher Education Publication,听May 2010
