My Blog
Democracy to Come was developed as a website to bring together my research in one place: to document all the things that I write about, all the things I explore through my research and all the things that inspire and make me happy. I hope that in sharing them through this blog they provoke others to think more about democracy, freedom at work and how popular culture shapes how we think about our working lives.

- Health
One of the most frustrating parts of a research project is securing the first publication. You can spend months collecting data, weeks analysing it and just as long (or more!)…

- Martyn Griffin·
- 19th January 2023·

- Health
- Inclusion
The pandemic was a challenging time to work through. For “key workers” it involved continuing as normal, albeit with an intensification of workload and complex rules and regulations creating confusion,…

- Martyn Griffin·
- 15th January 2023·

- Democracy
- Education
- Inclusion
One of the scariest things I can recall about being a young academic was attending conferences. Not only were you being asked to present your work to more experienced colleagues…

- Martyn Griffin·
- 30th June 2022·

- Health
Earlier this month I was invited to give a presentation to the Wolfson Institute for Health and Wellbeing at Durham University. The subject of the talk was research on moral…

- Martyn Griffin·
- 27th June 2022·

- Democracy
- Inclusion
One major theme in my research is that whilst many individuals aspire to more democratic ways of working, achieving it in practice is an extremely difficult business. It is fraught…

- Martyn Griffin·
- 9th March 2022·

- Culture
- Inclusion
One of the most rewarding parts of being an academic is getting the opportunity to regularly meet extremely interesting and intelligent people. I can’t think of another job where you…

- Martyn Griffin·
- 31st October 2020·