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Dr Nathan Stephens-Griffin

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Sciences

Nathan started as a Lecturer at ϲ in September 2018. His research interests include animal advocacy, environmentalism, and other forms of political activism, with a particular interest in the criminalisation of political protest. He is also interested in biographical, visual and graphic narrative approaches to social research.

 Before joining Northumbria, Nathan worked as a Teaching Fellow in Criminology in the Department of Sociology at Durham University, and as a Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Teesside University. Nathan completed his PhD at Durham University in 2015. In 2017 he published a monograph based on his PhD research, entitled ‘Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity’. 

 

 

Nathan Stephens-Griffin

Critical Animal Studies

Green Criminology

Veganism and Animal Advocacy

Criminalisation and Repression of Protest

Undercover Policing

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Biographical and Visual Research Methods

Comics and Social Research

Lynne Graham No Justice, Just Us: A qualitative mixed methods ethnographic study of organised foxhunting and anti-hunt activism in England and Wales Start Date: 01/10/2019


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