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Paul Griffin

@paulgriffin1.bsky.social
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Human Geographer at Northumbria Uni. Research interests include: histories from below, labour, unemployment and credit unions. researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en…

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members in today's strike day strategy meeting: where have we got to, where are we going, and how do we fight whatever fresh hell bosses @northumbriauni.bsky.social want to impose on people next? An amazing event, full of ideas, energy, and righteous indignation.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Best football team ever? No, @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members on the picket lines earlier today, still enjoying the buzz from yesterday's rally. The fight goes on.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
UCU - Strike rally at Northumbria University over "pension theft" & pay freeze as management wastes millions on capital spend www.ucu.org.uk/article/1444...
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Strike rally at Northumbria University over "pension theft" & pay freeze as management wastes millions on capital spend
Northumbria University staff will rally on Wednesday 25 March as they protest management's attempt to rob them of their pension.
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Some reflections on "writing as method" with @jsclayton.bsky.social @cmxckinlay.bsky.social + Liv Robinson and Tadhg Camm. Great to work on this together: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Making connections through intimacy writing: writing as method in social and cultural geography
This paper considers the value of writing in human geography. It comments on forms of writing that reflect on personal experience to inform our understanding of questions of power and social differ...
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🪗🎻🥁Music, sweet music, and sunshine 🌞😎🧴at the @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket lines today @northumbriauni.bsky.social - we go again next week, with the national rally on 25 March. See you there! ✊❤️💯
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Words of fire! 🔥🔥❤️‍🔥 Please read and share this current @northumbriauni.bsky.social student's view on @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's fight for pay and pensions justice, and against management's plans, at Northumbria University ucu-unn.org.uk/blogucu/325-...
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A Northumbria student's view on the fight for pay and pensions justice
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
READ ALL ABOUT IT @georgeclarke.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk The 'latest offer' from management @northumbriauni.bsky.social @andylong6.bsky.social offers no protections for hard-working staff: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Northumbria University staff strike over pension row
Staff are taking part in 10 days of strikes after being told to switch pension schemes.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
💥💥💥Please sign and share this petition: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no... @ucu.org.uk @unison.org.uk @tuc.org.uk
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Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.  These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Enjoyed 800 years of North Shields music event last night! "A place that keeps singing quietly, proudly, even when noone is watching"
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Something new with Jane Holgate. Bringing together our work around trade union engagements beyond the workplace and particularly the sustained role of community activists. Available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Trade unions and labour market inactivity: a continuing sense of solidarity and belonging - Paul Griffin, Jane Holgate, 2025
This article considers the relationship between trade unions and labour market inactivity by exploring the experiences of trade union activists beyond the workp...
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
My Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship on credit union histories started last week. The SLCU 2025 conference was the perfect place to start at the weekend! Some great workshops and lots of conversations to follow up on. Do get in touch if interested in the work!
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Really enjoyed working on this with current PGR - Liv Robinson. We reflect on the archival encounter, with specific comments around industrial violence and working with troubling material: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper reflects on the archival encounter. In our discussion, we consider interactions between researchers and more troubling and violent materials, specifically industrial death and injury, held...
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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
#OpenAccess in The GJ: 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al. This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Paul Griffin, John Clayton & Edith Adamson (2025) entitled 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' with a blue banner at the top.

This short intervention offers a historical geography-informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify continuities across 100 years of racialised violence in Britain whilst also noting important differences. We revisit riotous events from 1919, 1981 and 2001 to illustrate the persistence of exclusionary racism within Britain, whilst also pointing towards the endurance of anti-racist resistance and alternative world views. Our argument points towards the immediacy of violence, in both mundane and spectacular forms, as well as the longer lasting realm of the everyday where racialised violence is (re)produced.
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Went to see this at the weekend and would thoroughly recommend! Very closely connected to Edie Adamson's ongoing PhD research around memories of multiculture at Northumbria, in partnership with The Word in South Shields. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f...
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‘Bigger than the Queen’: the day Muhammad Ali blew Tyneside away
One day after a royal visit, the boxing icon hit South Shields at his own expense, played darts, had his marriage blessed, and trounced Elizabeth II’s turnout. Our writer explains why he has written a...
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Liverpool REM trip comes to a close. A great few days exploring the connections between race, racism and anti-racism in the city, with excellent guest speakers. Always nice to spend time with brilliant colleagues too - @jsclayton.bsky.social and Sarah Peck.
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Historical Geographies students were on great form this morning - discussing all things archives and usable pasts. Their historical geography manifestos were great!
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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
📢 Call for abstracts! 'Creating Carceral Atmospheres: Affect, Embodiment and Enclosure' at the RGS-IBG AC2025. Please get in touch with any abstracts or questions! 😄 @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A return to Glasgow came at just the right time. A chance to share some ongoing work on unemployment, spatial politics, solidarity, etc. with old friends and meet a great HGRG community. Also an opportunity to continue ongoing credit union conversations. Sabbatical drawing to a close on a high!
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Very excited to be part of this Northern Bridge Collaborative PhD!
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Katy Jenkins @katyjenkins.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Great opportunity for a funded PhD studentship @nuglobaldev.bsky.social with me, @paulgriffin1.bsky.social, and Sarah Peck, exploring social dialogue and gender just transitions. Collaboration with Ethical Trading Initiative and Women Working Worldwide www.northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastu...
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Collaborative Doctoral Awards (Staff-led) | Northern Bridge Consortium | Newcastle University
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We have two NBC PhD studentships advertised for 2025 starts! Projects around working class identity/Sunderland and gender just transitions/food supply chains. Opportunities to work with @jsclayton.bsky.social and @katyjenkins.bsky.social. More info: northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastu...
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Collaborative Doctoral Awards (Staff-led) | Northern Bridge Consortium | Newcastle University
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Productive archive day. First time visit to the Co-operative Heritage Trust Archive in Manchester. Will certainly be back as we start to think about Mutual Aid Pasts.
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Doesn't get much better than Idles on your birthday. Some show last night at Newcastle City Hall.
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Kathryn Cassidy @kathrynlcassidy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If you or someone you know might be interested in doing a PhD or Masters+PhD, you can apply for funded opportunities within the NINE DTP Human Geography & Environment, Climate and Sustainability pathways with colleagues at Northumbria. There is more info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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FindAPhD : ESRC-Funded PhD Studentships in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University (NINE25/EE/GEO/KCKJ) at Northumbria University
Apply for a PhD: ESRC-Funded PhD Studentships in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University (NINE25/EE/GEO/KCKJ) at Northumbria University
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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Made the switch. Great to see lots of familiar faces and the possibility of reconnecting with a critical academic (particularly Human Geography!) community again. Will try and share work and thoughts around labour, unemployment, trade unions, community organising, historical geography etc.
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
"If we can't unionise at Amazon, we have no future": The film [co-directed by Antipode Foundation trustee Brett Story!] about the workers who took on Jeff Bezos and won www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
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‘If we can’t unionise at Amazon, we have no future’: the film about the workers who took on Jeff Bezos and won
From the rousing leader dismissed for leading a walkout to the activists handing out free burgers, pizza and weed, an inspiring new documentary charts the long, hard fight to create the delivery giant...
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