Gill Craig

Gill Craig is a Reader in Public Health & Social Science and is the lead for the Food & Public Health Group in the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC). Gill has a background in psychology, medical sociology and public health. She specialises in feeding, maternal identity and social diversity. She is the Chief Investigator in a national study mapping best practice support models for children with neurodisability, complex feeding needs and their families funded by the NIHR, HS&DR programme. Her methodological specialisms include: feminist and qualitative research, discourse analysis and process evaluations. 

Gill was the lead researcher on a major research project evaluating the medical, surgical, psychosocial and economic aspects of gastrostomy feeding for disabled children and their carers at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. Her PhD examined professional and parental discourses in relation to gastrostomy feeding technologies and women's experiences of caring. Her work was awarded a postgraduate prize by the British Psychological Society, Psychology of Women section in 2004. Her postdoctoral work involved the development and evaluation of a social model of health for marginalised groups with tuberculosis at UCL. She holds an Honorary position at City, University of London

• Feeding practices, maternal identity & social diversity
• Applying social science to health issues 
• Models of support for children with neurodisability and their families
• Stigma & tuberculosis
• Tuberculosis, risk & marginalisation
• Health/care practices in underserved populations