Professor Christine Griffin
Professor Griffin is:
- An elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- A Chartered Member of the BPS
- A member of the founding Editorial Group for the international journal Feminism and Psychology
She convenes:
- The Social and Cultural Psychology research group in Psychology
- The Faculty Childhood and Youth Research Group
- The Critical Research in Social Psychology Research group in Psychology (CRISP)
Profile
Christine Griffin is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Bath. She was educated at the University of Aston in Birmingham (Human Psychology) and the University of Birmingham (PhD in Social Psychology). She has been involved in a wide variety of research projects on aspects of young people’s lives, often working in multi-disciplinary teams. Much of her recent work explores the relationship between identities and consumption for young people, with a long-standing interest in gender relations and young women’s negotiation of contemporary femininity. She is a leading figure in the development of qualitative research in social psychology.
Professor Griffin has published widely in journals including Addiction: Research and Theory, the British Journal of Social Psychology, the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Discourse Studies, the European Journal of Management, Feminism and Psychology, Sociology and the Journal of Youth Studies. Monographs include Standpoints and Differences: Essays in Practice of Feminist Psychology (with Karen Henwood and Ann Phoenix, Sage, 1998); Typical Girls? Young Women from School to the Job Market (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985); and Representations of Youth (Polity Press, 1993).
She joined the Department of Psychology at Bath in 2003, and was previously in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham (from 1985).
Research Interests
- The relationship between consumption, marketing and social identity for children and young people
- Young people’s alcohol consumption, the culture of intoxication and the role of social media in shaping ‘everyday celebrity’
Recent projects include:
- "Young People and Alcohol" study: examining the branding and marketing of alcoholic drinks to young people, and the significance of drinking for young adults' social lives and social identities (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council)
- "Music Festivals" project: investigates the relationship between social identity, marketing, branding and consumption in a study of young people's experiences of leisure sites that are highly commercialised (Music Festivals) or with little external commercial involvement (Free Parties). This project is also ESRC funded, lead by Dr Bengry-Howell
Teaching
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
- XX50136: Qualitative methods 1
- Clinical Research in Practice: DClinPsy programme
Publications
Book Sections
Hackley, C., Bengry-Howell, A., Griffin, C., Mistral, W. and Szmigin, I., 2011. Forthcoming. Young peoples' binge drinking constituted as a deficit of individual self-control in UK government alcohol policy. In: Candlin, C. N. and Crichton, J., eds. Discources of Deficit. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bengry-Howell, A. and Griffin, C., 2010. Self-made motormen: The material construction of working-class masculine identities through car modification. In: Houze, R. and Lees-Maffei, G., eds. The Design History Reader. New York: Berg, pp. 374-380.
Griffin, C., Szmigin, I.T., Hackley, C., Mistral, M. and Bengry-Howell, A., 2010. Forthcoming. The importance of belonging in the neo-liberal social order: Young people’s drinking practices and collective identification. In: Wetherell, M., ed. New Identites, New Intersections. Palgrave.
Riley, S., Griffin, C. and Morey, Y., 2010. Forthcoming. Tribal gatherings: Using art to disseminate research on club culture. In: Reavey, P., ed. Visual Psychologies: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research. London: Routledge.
Phoenix, A., Pattman, R., Croghan, R., Griffin, C. and Hunter, J., 2009. Forthcoming. Consuming masculinities: Intersections of gender and peer culture in everyday school practices. In: Budde, J. and Mammes, I., eds. Jungenforschung empirisch (Research on Boys: Between School, Male Habitus and Peer Culture - German and International Perspectives). VS Verlag, pp. 149-161.
Griffin, C. and Bengry-Howell, A., 2007. Ethnography. In: Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Psychology. Due to be published in 2007. London:: Sage.
Griffin, C., 2004. Good girls, bad girls: Anglo-centrism and diversity in the constitution of contemporary girlhood. In: All About the Girl: Power, Culture and Identity. New York: Routledge.
Griffin, C., 2002. Girls' friendships and the formation of sexual identities. In: Lesbian and Gay Psychology: New Perspectives. Malden, MA, US: BPS Blackwell.
Articles
Szmigin, I., Hackley, C., Bengry-Howell, A., Griffin, C. and Mistral, W., 2011. Social marketing, individual responsibility and the “culture of intoxication”. European Journal of Marketing, 45 (5), pp. 759-779.
Griffin, C. E., 2011. The trouble with class: researching youth, class and culture beyond the 'Birmingham School'. Journal of Youth Studies, 14 (3), pp. 245-259.
Riley, S., Thompson, J. and Griffin, C., 2010. Turn on, tune in, but don't drop out: The impact of neo-liberalism on magic mushroom users' (in)ability to imagine collectivist social worlds. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21 (6), pp. 445-451.
Riley, S. C. E., Griffin, C. and Morey, Y., 2010. The case for 'everyday politics': evaluating neo-tribal theory as a way to understand alternative forms of political participation, using electronic dance music culture as an example. Sociology-the Journal of the British Sociological Association, 44 (2), pp. 345-363.
Riley, S., Morey, Y. and Griffin, C., 2010. The 'pleasure citizen' Analyzing partying as a form of social and political participation. Young, 18 (1), pp. 33-54.
Griffin, C., Bengry-Howell, A., Hackley, C., Mistral, W. and Szmigin, I., 2009. 'Every time I do it I absolutely annihilate myself': loss of (self-)consciousness and loss of memory in young people's drinking narratives. Sociology, 43 (3), pp. 457-476.
Tekola, B., Griffin, C. and Camfield, L., 2009. Using qualitative methods with poor children in urban Ethiopia: Opportunities and challenges. Social Indicators Research, 90 (1), pp. 73-87.
Nash, N., Lewis, A. and Griffin, C., 2009. 'Not in our front garden': Land use conflict, spatial meaning and the politics of naming place. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 20 (1), pp. 44-56.
Nairn, A., Griffin, C. and Wicks, P. G., 2008. Children's use of brand symbolism - A consumer culture theory approach. European Journal of Marketing, 42 (5-6), pp. 627-640.
Riley, S., Morey, Y. and Griffin, C., 2008. Ketamine: The divisive dissociative. A discourse analysis of the constructions of ketamine by participants of a free party (rave) scene. Addiction Research & Theory, 16 (3), pp. 217-230.
Szmigin, I., Griffin, C., Hackley, C., Bengry-Howell, A., Weale, L. and Mistral, W., 2008. Re-framing ‘binge drinking’ as calculated hedonism: Empirical evidence from the UK. International Journal of Drug Policy, 19 (5), pp. 359-366.
Hackley, C., Bengry-Howell, A., Griffin, C., Mistral, W. and Szmigin, I., 2008. The discursive constitution of the UK alcohol problem in 'Safe, Sensible, Social': A discussion of policy implications. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 15 (Supplement 1), pp. 61-74.
Hackley, C., Bengry-Howell, A., Griffin, C., Mistral, W. and Szmigin, I., 2008. The discursive constitution of the UK alcohol problem in Safe, Sensible, Social: A discussion of policy implications. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 15 (s1), pp. 61-74.
Griffin, C., Measham, F., Moore, K., Morey, Y. and Riley, S., 2008. The social and cultural uses of ketamine. Addiction Research & Theory, 16 (3), pp. 205-207.
Griffin, C., 2008. Understanding youth: Perspectives, identities and practices. Health & Social Care in the Community, 16 (1), pp. 108-109.
Griffin, C., 2007. Being dead and being there: research interviews, sharing hand cream and the preference for analysing 'naturally occurring data'. Discourse Studies, 9 (2), pp. 246-269.
Griffin, C., 2007. Different visions: a rejoinder to Henwood, Potter and Hepburn. Discourse Studies, 9 (2), pp. 283-287.
Croghan, R., Griffin, C., Hunter, J. and Phoenix, A., 2006. Style Failure: Consumption, Identity and Social Exclusion. Journal of Youth Studies, 9 (4), pp. 463-478.
Griffin, C., 2005. Book Review: Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-first Century. Feminism & Psychology, 15 (3), pp. 351-353.
Holt, M. and Griffin, C., 2005. Students versus locals: Young adults' constructions of the working-class Other. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, pp. 241-267.
Wilson, I., Griffin, C. and Wren, B., 2005. The interaction between young people with atypical gender identity organization and their peers. Journal of Health Psychology, 10 (3), pp. 307-315.
Hirschfeld, R., Smith, J., Trower, P. and Griffin, C., 2005. What do psychotic experiences mean for young men? a qualitative investigation. Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory, Research and Practice, 78 (2), pp. 249-270.
Griffin, C., 2005. Whatever happened to the (likely) lads? 'Learning to Labour' 25 years on. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26 (2), pp. 291-297.
Griffin, C., 2004. Choosing a self: Young women and the individualization of identity. American Journal of Sociology, 110 (3), pp. 844-846.
Willott, S. and Griffin, C., 2004. Redundant men: Constraints on identity change. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 14 Mar-Apr (2), pp. 53-69.
Holt, M. and Griffin, C., 2003. Being gay, being straight, and being yourself: Local and global reflections on identity, authenticity and the lesbian and gay scene. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 6 (3), pp. 404-425.
Lyons, A. and Griffin, c., 2003. Managing menopause: A qualitative analysis of self-help literature for women at midlife. Social Science & Medicine, 56 (8), pp. 1629-1642.
Wilson, I., Griffin, C. and Wren, B., 2002. The validity of the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder (Child and Adolescent Criteria). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 7 (3), pp. 335-351.
Griffin, C., 2001. 'The young women are having a great time': Representations of young women and feminism. Feminism & Psychology, 11 (2), pp. 181-185.
Griffin, C., 2001. Imagining new narratives of youth: Youth research, the 'new Europe' and global youth culture. Childhood, 8 (2), pp. 147-166.
Willott, S., Griffin, C. and Torrance, M., 2001. Snakes and ladders: Upper-middle class male offenders talk about economic crime. Criminology, 39 (2), pp. 441-466.
Conference or Workshop Items
Brown, R.A. and Griffin, C., 2009. “A cockroach preserved in amber”: The significance of class in critics’ representations of Heavy Metal music and its fans. In: British Sociological Association Conference 2009, 17 April 2009, Cardiff University, Wales.
Griffin, C., 2008. Being dead and being there: Research interviews, sharing hand cream and the preference for analysing 'naturally occurring data'. In: Inaugural conference of the BPS section on Qualitative Methods in Psychology, September 3-5, 2008, University of Leeds, Leeds.
Griffin, C., 2005. Challenging assumptions about youth political participation: Critical insights from Great Britain. In: Revisiting Youth Political Participation: Challenges for Research and Democratic Practice in Europe., Strasbourg. Council of Europe.
