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Professor David Collinson

Distinguished Professor of Leadership & Organisation

David Collinson

Charles Carter Building

LA1 4YX

Lancaster

Tel: +44 1524 510916

Research Interests

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 'Leadership'. 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 Lancaster University, this meeting has been hosted at the Universities of Oxford, Exeter, Cranfield, Warwick, Auckland, Birmingham, Lund, Copenhagen, Richmond, Rome and Edinburgh.

 

 

Profile

Appointed to Chair in Leadership and Organisation at Lancaster in January 2002. Previously at the Universities of Warwick, South Florida, St. Andrews and Manchester. In 2001 David was elected as the Hallsworth Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School.

David has a BSc, MSc (by research) and PhD all in management and has published 13 books and over one hundred articles, chapters and research reports that seek to contribute to the development of critical approaches to leadership and management studies.

2008   Lancaster University Research Prize (Established Researchers) awarded for ‘excellent work in the field of leadership’

 

Current Teaching

I organise the 3rd year BSc undergraduate course in 'Rethinking Leadership' and also teach on Mngt 200, and specialist Masters programmes as well as supervise doctoral students.

Qualifications

PhD, School of Management, UMIST (1988)

MSc (by research), School of Management, UMIST (1981)

BSc (Hons), Dept. of Management Sciences, UMIST (1978)

  • Forthcoming

    Elizabeth 1st

    Collinson, D. & Collinson, M., 20/02/2024, (Accepted/In press) Women & Leadership: Navigating Change from Ancient Times to the Present . Christensen, K., Goethals, G. & Hoyt, C. (eds.). 2nd ed. Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group, p. 164-169 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  • Published

    Men, Masculinities and Military Organizations

    Aktas, F. O., Collinson, D., Hearn, J. & Sünbüloglu, N. Y., 24/11/2023, Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations : Theories, Practices and Futures of Organizing. Hearn, J., Aavik, K., Collinson, D. & Thym, A. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 262-275 14 p. (Routledge International Handbooks).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Published

    Critical Dialectical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Leadership

    Collinson, D., 24/11/2023, Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, Practices and Futures of Organizing. Hearn, J., Aavik, K., Collinson, D. & Thym, A. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 121-137 16 p. (Routledge International Handbooks).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

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