Professor David Collinson
Distinguished Professor of Leadership & OrganisationResearch 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)
ESRC (Publisher)
Editorial activity
Macmillan (Publisher)
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International Leadership Association (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
European Group of Organization Studies (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
British Academy of Management (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
International Society for Humour Studies (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
International Association For Studies of Men (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Polity Press (Publisher)
Editorial activity
Routledge (Publisher)
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Sage Publishers (Publisher)
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Walter De Gruyter (Publisher)
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Publisher)
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Open University Press (Publisher)
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Oxford University Press (Publisher)
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17th International Studying Leadership Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Leadership Association (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Power: The Absent Presence’
Invited talk
14th International Studying Leadership Conference (ISLC)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Organizational Studies (External organisation)
Membership of board
International Leadership Association (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Centre for Excellence in Leadership
Visiting an external academic institution
International Studying Leadership Conference Executive Committee member
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Leadership (Journal)
Editorial activity
Leadership (Journal)
Editorial activity
Gender, Work and Organization (Journal)
Editorial activity
Gender, Work and Organization (Journal)
Editorial activity
Organization Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Lancaster University Research Prize (Established Researchers) for ‘excellent work in the field of leadership’
Prize (including medals and awards)
Resistance through Difference: The Co-Constitution of Dissent and Inclusion
Prize (including medals and awards)
Identities and Insecurities: Selves at Work’’ (2003)
Prize (including medals and awards)
The Future of Policing
Prize (including medals and awards)
Rethinking Leadership Research
Prize (including medals and awards)
Emerald Citation of Excellence
Prize (including medals and awards)
- People, Work and Organisation