Expertise
Has expertise in:
- Management and organisation with a focus on forced labour and labour exploitation
- Work and employment, skills, the frontline service sector
- Central Asia, agricultural commodities, and Uzbekistan's cotton sector
- Capability approaches in the context of labour exploitation, human development and refugee integration
- Action research, participatory and creative research methods
Alongside Dr Knut Laaser, Darren developed a new analytical framework and alternative to theory focusing on lead firm–supplier relations or global value chains when investigating violations of working conditions. They are currently working on a new approach to organisational legitimacy embedded in moral economy approaches. Darren is also researching refugee integration and has recently set up the Strathclyde research cluster on central asia and former soviet states.