Staff profiles
Dr John Darwin
Principal lecturer in strategy and change
BSc Econ., MSc, Dip.App.S.S., MBA., PhD
Phone 0114 225 2989
E-mail j.a.darwin@shu.ac.uk
Research centres and institutes associated with
Centre for Business and Management, Change Management Centre
Profile
John Darwin has had previous careers in community action and in Local Government (with Newcastle City Council and Sheffield City Council, the latter as director of employment and economic development).
He is the author of a number of works on strategy, change, economic development and local government. He teaches on a range of postgraduate and doctoral programmes, in the UK, Ireland and Czech Republic.
Research interests
- strategic alliances, partnerships and collective strategy
- the role of spirituality in the workplace
- the relationship of philosophy of science to management methodology
- new approaches to management, strategic change and organisation development drawing on complexity theory, non-western philosophy and fuzzy logic
- integral thinking, truth and change (alethic pluralism)
Teaching interests
- Programme leader, MSc Organisational Change and Consultancy
- MBA (Strategic Thinking and Analysis; Developing Strategies for Change and 21st Century Organisations)
- MSc IT and Management and Doctor of Business Administration.
- Director of studies or second supervisor of eight doctoral students (DBA and PhD)
- organisational change and consultancy skills
Author of recent publications
Linking Theory and Practice in Management Research in International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy (Volume 1 Number 1 2004)
Preventing Premature Agreement Reason in Practice: The Journal of Philosophy of Management (Volume 4 Number 1 2004)
Exploring inter-organisational relationships in the health service: An immersive drama approach (with Jim Bryant) EJOR (2003)
Immersive Drama: testing health systems (2003) Omega: the international journal of management science, 31, 127-136. (with Jim Bryant)
Developing Strategies for Change (with P. Johnson and J. McAuley) (2002)
Research and consultancy projects
Consultancy and executive development work has included engagements with many local authorities, including work with IDeA, as well as private and community organisations, and with health organisations. The latter has included two substantial projects (with Professor Jim Bryant) involving the use of whole systems events and drama theory to explore primary care trusts and clinical governance.
