Darren joined Work, Employment and Organisation in May 2020, where he is currently deputy director of research. Darren has responsibility for research culture and environment in WEO and for designing and managing research programmes. 

Awarded his PhD (Management) in 2014 from Strathclyde Business School, Darren was previously an Early Career Fellow and RA in Work, Employment and Political Economy, and Lecturer at Stirling Management School. 

Darren's research interests span work and employment and labour, where he takes a multi-disiplinary approach, often leaning on moral economic concepts or capability approaches, in the broader social sciences or humanities. 

Darren recently co-edited a special issue on Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Science and is affiliated with the Centre for the Political Economy of Labour at Strathclyde. 

As a former community development worker, Darren has a longstanding interest in local and international workers' rights and civil society.

Darren is leading a major new research project looking at moral norms and varieties of capitalism (with Perchard and Piacentini) in the roll out of the new cotton cluster system in Uzbekistan. 

Since coming back to Strathclyde, Darren has won PhD funding with the ESRC and internally; major funding with the Global Challenges Research Fund (alongside Sambajee and Scholarios) and has been successful with 8 research funding applications. 

Darren was previously a community development worker with an action research remit. Recently, he was on the board of two charities. As co-vice chair, Darren learnt a lot about the workings of charitable organisations and would be happy to discuss potential partnership opportunities with any interested parties. 

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.