Staff Profile
Naomi Griffin is a Research Associate at Newcastle University. Working as part of the Population Health Sciences Institute under the Health Inequalities team, her research focuses primarily on health inequalities and the impact of stigma and marginalisation on the health and wellbeing of particularly vulnerable and multiply disadvantaged populations. Currently her work focuses on inequalities that exist within, and as a result of engagement with, the criminal justice system. She joined Newcastle University in 2022 as the researcher for the ‘Divided Households’ research project, lead by Dr Steph Scott, which looked at the impact of having a family member in prison on children and young peoples’ health and wellbeing. She also currently works on a project exploring how health and justice systems work together during the resettlement process for people returning to their community after a custodial sentence. This project focuses on the challenges and gaps in healthcare and support for this vulnerable population at a particularly vulnerable time. This project is lead by Dr Steph Scott (Newcastle University) and Dr Michelle Addison (Durham University).
Naomi is an experienced qualitative researcher, with particular skills in creative methods (such as narrative/story-telling methods, drawing methods, and focus group creative activities). She is particularly interested in intersectional and longitudinal analysis.
Naomi has taught and supervised students at undergraduate and post graduate levels and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. She is also an associate member of Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health and is a member of the Early Life and Adolescence Cluster (previously deputy lead).
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Articles
- Dodds-Reynolds C, Griffin N, Kyle P, Scott S, Fairbrother H, Holding E, Crowder M, Woodrow N, Summerbell C. Young people's experiences of physical activity insecurity: a qualitative study highlighting intersectional disadvantage in the UK. BMC Public Health 2024, 24, 813.
- Fairbrother H, Woodrow N, Crowder M, Holding E, Griffin N, Er V, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Lock K, Scott S, Summerbell C, McKeown R, Rigby E, Kyle P, Knights N, Quirk H, Goyder E. ‘It depends on where you were born…here in the North East, there’s not really many job opportunities compared to in the South’: young people’s perspectives on a North-South health divide and its drivers in England, UK. BMC Public Health 2024, 24, 2018.
- Griffin N, Crowder M, Kyle P, Holding E, Woodrow N, Fairbrother H, Dodd-Reynolds C, Summerbell C, Scott S. 'Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that': Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in Northern England. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 2023, 3, 100263.
- Fairbrother H, Woodrow N, Crowder M, Holding E, Griffin N, Er V, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Lock K, Scott S, Summerbell C, McKeown R, Rigby E, Kyle P, Goyder E. 'It All Kind of Links Really': Young People’s Perspectives on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Circumstances and Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(6), 3679.