Dr Dermot O'Reilly
Senior Lecturer in Management Learning and LeadershipQualifications
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.
Web Links
I am a member of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business
PhD Supervision Interests
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.
Selected Publications
Re-imagining the scales, dimensions, and fields of socio-ecological sustainability
O'Reilly, D.G., Allen, S., Reedy, P. 15/04/2018 In: British Journal of Management. 29, 2, p. 220-234. 15 p.
Journal article
Introduction: leadership in a crises-constructing world
O'Reilly, D., Leitch, C., Harrison, R., Lamprou, E. 11/2015 In: Leadership. 11, 4, 9 p.
Editorial
Leadership, authority and crisis: reflections and future directions
O'Reilly, D., Leitch, C., Harrison, R., Lamprou, E. 11/2015 In: Leadership. 11, 4, p. 489-499. 11 p.
Journal article
Developing leaders as symbolic violence: reproducing public service leadership through the (misrecognized) development of leaders’ capitals
Michael, T., O'Reilly, D., Wallace, M. 2013 In: Management Learning. 44, 1, p. 81-97. 17 p.
Journal article
'Leaderism' and the discourse of leadership in the reformation of UK public services
O'Reilly, D., Reed, M. 2012 In: Leadership in the Public Sector. Abindgon : Routledge p. 21-43. 23 p. ISBN: 978-0-415-59174-4.
Chapter
The Grit in the Oyster: Professionalism, Managerialism and Leaderism as Discourses of UK Public Services Modernization
O'Reilly, D., Reed, M. 08/2011 In: Organization Studies. 32, 8, p. 1079-1101.
Journal article
Public service leaders as change agents - for whom?: mediatory responses to leadership development in England
Wallace, M., O'Reilly, D., Morris, J., Deem, R. 01/2011 In: Public Management Review. 13, 1, p. 65-93.
Journal article
The mediation of acculturation: orchestrating school leadership development in England
Wallace, M., Tomlinson, M., O'Reilly, D. 05/2011 In: Educational Management Administration and Leadership. 39, 3, p. 261-282.
Journal article
Developing Leadership Capacity in English Secondary Schools and Universities: Global Positioning and Local Mediation
Wallace, M., Deem, R., O'Reilly, D., Tomlinson, M. 02/2011 In: British Journal of Educational Studies. 59, 1, p. 21-40.
Journal article
'Leaderism': an evolution of managerialism in UK public service reform
O'Reilly, D., Reed, M. 12/2010 In: Public Administration: An International Quarterly. 88, 4, p. 960-978. 19 p.
Journal article
Comment on Rhodes et al. (2005):: Some Further Thoughts on Assessing the Effects of Area-based Initiatives on Local Outcomes
O'Reilly, D. 05/2007 In: Urban Studies. 44, 5-6
Comment/debate
Social Inclusion: A Philosophical Anthropology
O'Reilly, D. 05/2005 In: Politics. 25, 2, p. 80-88.
Journal article
All Publications
Organisational psychology and the implementation of sustainable thinking
01/12/2022 → 08/02/2025
Research
Collaborative Housing and Community Resilience
30/11/2014 → 29/11/2016
Other
Interpreting values in dialogic processes of mutual coordination
31/03/2011 → 31/03/2013
Other
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Business Engagement
Socio-ecological Leadership, Organization and Work
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
AIMday workshop on Stewardship & Sustainability
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Leading Organisational Change in the Age of Digital Disruption – cyber security challenges
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
International Studying Leadership Conference
Participation in conference - Academic
13th International Critical Management Studies Conference
Participation in conference - Academic
Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
The ‘right’ thing? Workshop for discussing practices for facilitating learning in ethics, responsibility and ecological sustainability
Participation in conference - Academic
Taking Responsibility Scholarship Forward
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Leadership (Journal)
Editorial activity
Leadership and Sustainability
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Journal of Management Studies (Journal)
Publication peer-review
International Studying Leadership Conference
Participation in conference - Academic
International Studying Leadership Conference 2021
Participation in conference - Academic
Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
The Learning Organization (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Publication peer-review
Challenges and Strategies of Organisational Culture Change
Invited talk
Journal of Management Studies (Journal)
Publication peer-review
CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES OF CULTURE CHANGE: Organizational Culture towards Net Zero
Invited talk
Journal of Business Ethics (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Human Relations (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Organization (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Management Learning (Journal)
Publication peer-review
International Journal of Management Reviews (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation (Journal)
Publication peer-review
International Journal of Leadership in Public Services (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Higher Education (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
BAM Annual Conference 2012
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Educational Management Administration and Leadership (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Centre for Global Labour Research conference on Capitalism and Work
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
ESRC (External organisation)
Membership of committee
BAM Annual Conference 2010
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
BSA Annual Conference 2010
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
CRESC 2010
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Higher Education Quarterly (Journal)
Publication peer-review
EGOS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
EGOS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
EGOS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference 2009
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2009
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2009
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
British Journal of Management (Journal)
Publication peer-review
EGOS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
EGOS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
PSA Annual Conference 2008
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
- Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education
- Pentland Centre
- People, Work and Organisation