Mr Darren McGuire
Lectureship In Organisational Studies
Work, Employment and Organisation
Area of Expertise
Darren joined Work, Employment and Organisation in May 2020. Awarded his PhD in 2014 from Strathclyde Business School, he was previously a lecturer in Management, Work and Organisation at Stirling Management School. In this role, Darren was the chair of research ethics, an international partnership director and programme director for an MSc. Currently deputy-director of research in WEO, Darren is interested in exploring work and employment with a focus on civil society, the frontline service sector, worker narratives, and how management and organisation can help us understand societal challenges such as labour exploitation. Darren's research is rooted in linkages beween work, labour and management.
Publications
- Moral sentiments and oppositional practices in branch work : a moral economy approach
- Laaser Knut, McGuire Darren
- Employee Relations (2025)
- 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 (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
- Quality of Life & Work in Mauritius and Covid-19
- Sambajee Pratima, Scholarios Dora, McGuire Darren
- (2023)
- The Information Dissemination Project : Final evaluation | July 2022
- Kasem Laila, McGuire Darren, Mawson Suzanne
- (2022)
- A neglected pool of labour? Frontline service work and hotel recruitment in Glasgow
- Bolton Sharon C, Laaser Knut, McGuire Darren, Duncan Ashley
- European Management Review Vol 16, pp. 567-578 (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12172
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
- Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: finding customs in common?
- Organiser
- 12/3/2025
- KE, Research and Learning and Development Meeting between Strathclyde University and Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector
- Participant
- 14/8/2024
- Community of Practice for the Cultures of Collaborative Research in a Socially Progressive Technological University
- Participant
- 8/8/2024
- Intensifying knowledge exchange between University of Strathclyde and Glasgow council for the Voluntary Sector
- Speaker
- 22/5/2024
- University of Strathcluyde Research Integrity and Culture Week
- Participant
- 18/3/2024
- Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: Finding customs in common?
- Participant
- 23/11/2023
Projects
- GCRF_NF127 A capabilities assessment of Covid-19 changes to the Workers? Rights Act in Mauritius: implications for domestic and migrant workers
- Sambajee, Pratima (Principal Investigator) McGuire, Darren (Co-investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator) Mohd Yusof, Zatun Najahah (Researcher)
- 21-Jan-2020 - 20-Jan-2022
Contact
Mr
Darren
McGuire
Lectureship In Organisational Studies
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: d.mcguire@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3553