Mr Darren McGuire
Lectureship In Organisational Studies
Work, Employment and Organisation
Area of Expertise
Darren joined Work, Employment and Organisation in May 2020, where he is currently deputy director of research. Darren has responsibility for research culture and environment in WEO and for designing and managing research programmes.
Awarded his PhD (Management) in 2014 from Strathclyde Business School, Darren was previously an Early Career Fellow and RA in Work, Employment and Political Economy, and Lecturer at Stirling Management School.
Darren's research interests span work and employment and labour, where he takes a multi-disiplinary approach, often leaning on moral economic concepts or capability approaches, in the broader social sciences or humanities.
Darren recently co-edited a special issue on Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Science and is affiliated with the Centre for the Political Economy of Labour at Strathclyde.
As a former community development worker, Darren has a longstanding interest in local and international workers' rights and civil society.
Darren is leading a major new research project looking at moral norms and varieties of capitalism (with Perchard and Piacentini) in the roll out of the new cotton cluster system in Uzbekistan.
Since coming back to Strathclyde, Darren has won PhD funding with the ESRC and internally; major funding with the Global Challenges Research Fund (alongside Sambajee and Scholarios) and has been successful with 8 research funding applications.
Publications
- Contesting labour violations in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields
- McGuire Darren, Piacentini Laura, Sambajee Pratima
- Work, Employment and Society, pp. 1-11 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251408614
- Moral sentiments and oppositional practice in branch work : a moral economy approach
- Laaser Knut, McGuire Darren
- Employee Relations Vol 47, pp. 557-573 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-05-2023-0253
- Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science : finding Customs in Common?
- Perchard Andrew, McGuire Darren, Laaser Knut, Gildart Keith, Kaufman Anya, McMaster Robert, Curtis Ben
- Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol 46, pp. 3-13 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X241307418
- Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science : a roundtable with Dr Melissa Beresford, Professor Andrew Sayer and Professor Neville Kirk, chaired by Professor Robert McMaster
- Beresford Melissa, Sayer Andrew, Kirk Neville, McMaster Robert, McGuire Darren
- Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol 46, pp. 14-26 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x241307419
- It’s the knock-on effect : The cost-of-living crisis and Glasgow’s third sector
- McGuire Darren, Remnant Jennifer, Watson Rose, Cunningham Ian
- (2024)
- Quality of Life & Work in Mauritius and Covid-19
- Sambajee Pratima, Scholarios Dora, McGuire Darren
- (2023)
Teaching
Darren teaches on a range of PG and UG modules at Strathlcyde. A key inspiration in Darren's teaching is facilitating learning about the possibilities of theory in management and organisation and its potential to contribite towards societal challenges.
Professional Activities
- Co-designing community priorities
- Organiser
- 24/2/2026
- Research literacy and peer-researcher introductory training
- Speaker
- 3/12/2025
- Internal examiner for PhD viva
- Examiner
- 5/6/2025
- Developing Impact Series between Strathlcyde and GCVS
- Contributor
- 1/6/2025
- "Farmers Have No Freedom” (Uzbek Forum report on land, labour and farmers rights)
- Advisor
- 1/6/2025
- Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: finding customs in common?
- Organiser
- 12/3/2025
Projects
- Cultures of Collaborative Research in a Socially Progressive Technological University / R230557-219
- McGuire, Darren (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- GCVS and Strathclyde University PhD funding for 2 scholarships based in WEO
- Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) McGuire, Darren (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
- Deepening Engagement with the Third Sector: Creating a more collaborative and engaging research culture at Strathclyde, Collaborative Cultures Call 1
- Joshi, Manish (Principal Investigator) Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) McGuire, Darren (Principal Investigator) Haroon Tejumola, Qawiyah Oladunni (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2025
- Partnership development workshops with Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (ESRC Impact Accelerator)
- Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) McGuire, Darren (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2025
- Guest Researcher Visiting Fund - Professor Andrew Perchard
- McGuire, Darren (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 20-Jan-2025
- Intensifying knowledge exchange between Strathclyde University and GCVS
- McGuire, Darren (Principal Investigator) Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Cunningham, Ian (Principal Investigator) Watson, Rose (Co-investigator)
- This project aims to intensify knowledge exchange activities and further build the relationship between Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) and Strathclyde University.
- 09-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
Contact
Mr
Darren
McGuire
Lectureship In Organisational Studies
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: d.mcguire@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3553