Paul Crawford is an award-winning author and a leading figure in mental health, with Fellowships of the Royal Society of Arts, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society for Public Health. The world's first professor of Health Humanities, which seeks to enhance people's well-being through creative practices, he directs the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health, based at The University of Nottingham, UK. His recent non-fiction work, Florence Nightingale at Home, won Best Achievement in The People's Book Prize 2022. He also led the recent animated series with Aardman, What's Up With Everyone, supporting young people's mental health, which won Best Design and Content in the 2021 Design Week Awards, multiple categories in the 2021 PR Week Pride Awards and reached over 17m people within four months of launch alone. He is Joint Editor-in-Chief for The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Health Humanities and Commissioning Editor for two book series, Arts for Health (Emerald), and Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities.