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Dr Dermot O'Reilly

Senior Lecturer in Management Learning and Leadership

Lancaster University

Charles Carter Building

LA1 4YX

Lancaster

Tel: +44 1524 510937

PhD supervision

I am available for PhD research projects that take a critical approach to leadership, organizations, and/or business/society/ecology inter-relations. I am also interested in projects that adopt an interventionist as well as critical methodology, and projects that investigate alternative modes of social or organizational relationships. I am experienced in a variety of qualitative and mixed methods (primarily interviews, observations, artefact and critical discourse analysis), and am not qualified to supervise quantitative projects.

Qualifications

BA MA PhD

My Role

Doctoral Director (OWT)

Admissions Co-director MA in Human Resources and Consulting; MSc in Human Resource Management

Current Teaching

Lecturer and tutor on MNGT320 - Rethinking Leadership

Lecturer and tutor on MNGT321 - Management and Business in the 21st Century

Tutor on MNGT200 - Management (and) Consulting: Practice and Critique

Research Interests

My research interests revolve around interpretative and critical perspectives on social and organisational development, co-ordination, and conflict. I have a particular focus on the forms and dynamics of leadership, organizing, and learning. At the core of this intellectual endeavour is an interest in the dynamic and multiply-tendential processes, moments and relations that comprise development, co-ordination, and conflict. In particular, I am interested in the cultural, political, economic, and ecological processes and relations that create, enable, and constrain co-ordination and conflict (for example, in relation to cultural processes – ideation, imaginaries, discourses, social learning, norms and modes of valuing; political processes - domination, legitimation, authority, and dispute; economic processes – reproduction, redistribution, and capitals; and ecological processes - generation, development, contest, synthesis, and decline).

My current research focuses include: organisational learning dynamics; leadership within alternatives; and domination.

My research is informed by critical theory, critical realism, and wider social, cultural, and organizational theory. 

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