My research and teaching interests can be found across political and economic geography and more specifically labour geography. I am interested in the ways in which economic geography is experienced from below and how workers, and non-workers, can shape and reshape their material conditions. I am keen to develop this research interest in both historical and contemporary settings. My doctoral research was largely archival and as a result of this I have developed a further research interest in historical geography, particularly debates regarding the archive and the production of usable pasts.

Summary of current research interests:

1. Labour geography
2. Histories of labour activism and internationalism
3. Unemployment - linking with ideas of community, support and resistance
4. Credit unions and alternative economies

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• Solidarity on the Move: Imaginaries and Infrastructures within The People’s March for Jobs (1981), Griffin, P. 11 Sep 2023, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
• Unemployed Workers’ Centres (1978–): Spatial Politics,“Non-Movement”, and the Making of Centres, Griffin, P. Mar 2023, In: Antipode
• The 1919 ‘race riots’ – within and beyond exceptional moments in South Shields and Glasgow, Griffin, P., Martin, H. 1 Jun 2021, In: Political Geography
• Expanding labour geographies: resourcefulness and organising amongst ‘unemployed workers’, Griffin, P. 1 Jan 2021, In: Geoforum
• Labour, carcerality and punishment: ‘less-than-human’ labour landscapes, Cassidy, K., Griffin, P., Wray, F. 1 Dec 2020, In: Progress in Human Geography
• Experiencing (dis)comforting pedagogies: learning critical geography beyond the here and now, Clayton, J., Griffin, P., Mowl, G. 2 Apr 2023, In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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• Co-Producing usable pasts: hidden histories of unemployment, Griffin, P. (Principal Investigator), British Academy, 31/08/20 - 26/08/22, 0.00
• More-than a 'reserve army of labour' - historicising UK unemployment (1978), Griffin, P. (Principal Investigator), The Economic History Society, 01/03/20 - 28/02/21, 0.00

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• Oral presentation: Care, support and activism: historical geographies of Unemployed Workers’ Centres 2019
• Oral presentation: Politicising unemployment:volunteering, support and activism in UK Unemployed Workers’ Centres 2019
• Oral presentation: New forms of community unionism and the spatial politics of labour organising 2018
• Oral presentation: Labour, carcerality and punishment: ‘less than human’ labour landscapes 2017
• Oral presentation: ‘Clydeside’s Working-Class Presence: Political Identities and International Connections’ 2017
• Editorial work: Geography Compass (Journal) 2017
• Oral presentation: Space, Place and Solidarity: Towards a Conversation Between Labour Geography and Labour History 2016

• Olivia Robinson Haunting, Heritage, and Justice: Archiving Industrial Trauma for the Future Start Date: 01/10/2023
• Hannah Martin The Intersection of Race, Class and Politics in the North East of England, 1919-1939. Start Date: 01/10/2017 End Date: 28/09/2021
• Hannah Martin The Intersection of Race, Class and Politics in the North East of England, 1919-1939. Start Date: 01/10/2017 End Date: 18/11/2020

Geography PhD September 01 2015