Our peer-reviewed research positions Common’s filmmaking in relation to: multimodality; sensory ethnography; artisanal and industrial epistemology; re-enactment methods; practice-as-research; and arts research:

• Craddock, Paul. (2025). ‘Implicating the Knowledge of the Maker in Practices of Research’ in Marta Ajmar (ed.), Encounters on the Shop Floor. London: UCL Press (forthcoming 2025).

• Craddock, Paul and Harris, Anna. (2024). ‘Tracing Embodied Knowledge in the History of Science and Medicine: Expanding the Role of Film in Historical Research’. Science Museum Group Journal. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15180/242203.

• Craddock, Paul. (2023). ‘Connecting with industrial heritage collections using video production methods: Greg Kotovs and the can-gill machine’, Science Museum Group Journal. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/221808.

• Craddock, Paul. (2022). ‘Fabric Bodies: The Craft of Vascular Anastomosis’, Configurations 30 (2): pp.141-169. DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0009

• Craddock, Paul. (2022). ‘The Cigarette Paper’ in Anna Harris and John Nott (eds.) Making Sense of Medicine. Bristol: Intellect.

• Craddock, Paul and Harris, Anna. (2020). ‘Workshopping: Exploring the Entanglement of Sites, Tools and Bodily Possibilities in an Academic Gathering’, Journal of Embodied Research, 3 (1), 2 (16:17), DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.30

Throughout all publications, we suggest that research can and should be conducted in multiple modes, and that we should embrace even non-discursive modes. Accordingly, our film-making practice often involves attempting to render subjective experience on film (our own and others’), emphasising the sensory dimension of anything from a historically re-enacted making practice to handling paper archives and rare materials.