Professor David Collinson

Distinguished Professor of Leadership & Organisation

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Research focuses on critical approaches to leadership, management and organization. Primary interests explore leadership & followership dialectics; power, identities & insecurities; gender, men & masculinities; conformity, dramaturgy & resistance, and humour, positivity & Prozac leadership.

Books include: The Sage Handbook of Leadership; Major Works in Leadership Studies Volumes 1-4; Organizational Studies: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management Volumes I-4; Men as Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements; Managing the Shop floor: Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture; Managing to Discriminate, and Job Redesign: Critical Perspectives on the Labour Process.

Articles have appeared in leading journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Studies, Work, Employment & Society, Organization, Gender, Work & Organization, Leadership and Leadership Quarterly. David holds a doctorate, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in management sciences from the University of Manchester.

In 2009 he completed a three year secondment as the National Research Director (2006-2009) for the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL)/Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS).

David is the Founding Co-Editor (with Keith Grint) of the peer reviewed, international journal ''. The journal has established a reputation for critical, high quality and cutting-edge leadership research. He is also the Founding Co-Organiser of the 'International Studying Leadership Conference' (again with Keith Grint). In addition to being held four times at 51福利, this meeting has been hosted at the Universities of Oxford, Exeter, Cranfield, Warwick, Auckland, Birmingham, Lund, Copenhagen, Richmond, Rome and Edinburgh.


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  • People, Work and Organisation