Dr Carl Griffin

Dr. Carl J. Griffin (Extended Information)

Qualifications

BSc Hons (Geography, 1st Class) Bristol 1998,
PhD Bristol 2002,
PGCHET QUB 2010, FHEA, FRGS, FRHistS

Lecturer in Human Geography

Email: Carl.Griffin@qub.ac.uk

Address

Room 02037, Elmwood Building,
School of Geography, Archaelogy and Palaeoecology,
Queen's University Belfast,
Belfast, BT7 1NN
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 (0)2890 973394

Current Teaching:

GGY1005 - Human Geographies of the Modern World (convenor)
GGY2041 - Cultural Geographies (convenor)
GGY3001 - Dissertation
GGY3048 - Geographies of Social Movements and Social Conflict (convenor)

 

Current Administrative Roles:

Programme Director for MA in Human Geography: Society, Space and Culture

Human Geography (SSC) seminar series coordinator

GAP Study Abroad Programme Coordinator and Advisor of Studies (Erasmus, Study Abroad and Study USA)

GAP External Relations Committee

Advisor of Studies

Current Research: Society, Space and Culture

My research focuses on the geographies of popular protest and capitalist transformations in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Current foci include examinations of the quasi-insurrectionary Swing Riots – for which a monograph has been recently published with Manchester University Press; cultures of unemployment; the political ecologies of agrarian capitalism; and, the human/non-human technologies of forests and chases. I have recently finished a second book - to be published by Palgrave - examining laboring protest and politics in the longue durée. 

I passionately believe that quality research builds directly upon quality teaching. My students continue to inspire - and provoke - me into thinking about my interests in new, innovative ways. If you would like to explore any of these ideas at doctoral level, don't hesitate to get in touch.

 

Publications:

Selected publications (current REF census period):

The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest (Manchester University Press, 2012)

'Animal maiming, intimacy and the politics of shared life: the bestial and the beastly in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2012, 37, 2, pp. 301-16

'The violent Captain Swing?', Past and Present, 2010, 209, pp.149-180. (Free access)

'Placing political economy: organising opposition to free trade before the abolition of the Corn Laws', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2009, 34, 4, pp. 489-505.

For a full list of publications click here

 

External Grant Funding:

British Academy, July 2010 - June 2012, 'Other Tolpuddles? Trade Unionism and Labour Regulation in the English Countryside'; £4,186; Award reference: SG091233   

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2002-3: ‘Protest, Political Economy and Labouring Cultures’; £24,532; Award reference: T026/27.

 

Additional Information:

Chair - Historical Geography Research Group

Editorial Board - Geographical Journal

Invited panel member (Historical Geography and Early-Mid Career panels) - ESRC/AHRC Human Geography International Benchmarking Review 

Committee Member - Southern History Society

Fellow (Elected) - Royal Historical Society

Fellow (Elected) - Higher Education Academy