Dr James Duggan
Research Fellow
My profile
Biography
I am a Research Fellow in the School of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies, in the Faculty of Education. My research interests are in exploring the productive tensions between community-based and public sector ways of organising.
I am increasingly interested in exploring and developing theoretical and practical alternatives for public organising and appropriate creative and co-productive methodologies for researching and supporting these processes. My most recent project was Loneliness Connects Us (PI Batsleer, Co-I Duggan), a youth co-research project funded by the Co-op Foundation and developed in partnership with 42nd Street Manchester. The project supported a group of youth co-researchers to explore loneliness through a carousel of moving methods, which produced a series of research outputs including the immersive theatre performance ‘Missing’. Other projects include, Design Research Get Lost (PI Duggan, AHRC) a design-informed approach to self-organising processes amongst young people, and Sans Duty – Making Tax Visible, (PI Duggan, CCN+) which used a design fiction approach to imagining a fairer tax system in an everyday utopian community.
My other strand of work is researching public sector transformation, with an emphasis on collaboration, leadership and practices such as agile working. I completed my PhD in 2012: ‘A local authority initiative to foster a collaborative culture between organisations working with children and young persons’ at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Profs. Mel Ainscow and Alan Dyson. Since then, I was Co-PI for an Evaluation of Stockport Social Care Innovation Programme, subcontracted by TNS BRMB through funding secured from DfE. Using a theory of change approach, we explored the re-organisation of Health and Social Care across Stockport over a two-year period. The evaluation followed organisational change at a time of rapid reform in public services and, in particular, the adoption of restorative approaches and the impact upon vulnerable families.
Teaching
Supervision
Completed:
- Joanna Dennis Together we stand: an exploration of the cooperative movement in education as a catalyst for change and resistance
- Adam Wood A School Building and its Social, Educational Context: Rethinking the possibilities of lived architecture
Research outputs
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Batsleer, J., Duggan, J. (2020) Young and Lonely The Social Conditions of Loneliness. Policy Press.
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Chapters in books
Dunne, S., Duggan, J. (2022) 'Democrat and/or Parasite: Beyond the Tokenism Debate in the Emergence of the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (A Manchester Case).' Reshaping Youth Participation: Manchester in a European Gaze. pp. 17-30.
Duggan, J.R. (2017) 'Leadership and the power of others: re-thinking educational leadership with Magical Marxism and Spinoza.' In Courtney, S., McGinity, R., Gunter, H. (ed.) Educational Leadership: theorising professional practice in neoliberal times. London: Routledge, pp. 71-84.
Duggan, J.R. (2017) 'Leadership and the power of others.' Educational Leadership. Routledge, pp. 71-84.
Duggan, J.R. (2017) 'Leaders and the will of others: A Magical Marxist analysis of authentic leadership in one school’s engagement with the community.' Educational Leadership Theorising Professional Practice in Neoliberal Times. Routledge,
Duggan, J.R. (2017) 'Fast-track leadership schemes as elite re-professionalising projects.' Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education. Policy Press,
Duggan, J.R., Duggan, J.R. (2017) 'Fast-track leadership development programmes: the new micro-philanthropy of future elites.' In Gunter, H.M., Hall, D., Apple, M.W. (ed.) Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education. Policy Press,
Duggan, J.R. (2014) 'Embedded Research: Contextualizing Managerialization in a Local Authority.' Education Policy Research Design and Practice at a Time of Rapid Reform. Bloomsbury Publishing,
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Reports
McNicol, S., Duggan, J. Evaluation of the 2014 School Library Pack.
Panayiotou, S., Chisholm, T., Duggan, J., Rowley, H., Dennis, J. (2017) Stockport Family Evaluation Research Report. Department of Education.
Batsleer, J., Duggan, J., McNicol, S., Spray, S., Angell, K. (2017) Loneliness Connects Us. 42nd Street.
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Journal articles
Duggan, J.R. (2024) 'Re-Imagining Research Co-Production: Dramatizing a Speculative State of the Youth.' International Review of Qualitative Research, 16(4) pp. 291-313.
Rowley, H., Ivinson, G., Duggan, J., Pahl, K. (2022) 'Editorial: Critically exploring co-production.' Qualitative Research Journal, 22(1) pp. 1-6.
Eseonu, T., Duggan, J. (2021) 'Negotiating cultural appropriation while re-imagining co-production via Afrofuturism.' Qualitative Research Journal, 22(1) pp. 96-107.
Duggan, J. (2020) 'The co-productive imagination: a creative, speculative and eventful approach to co-producing research.' International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(3) pp. 355-367.
Duggan, J.R., Lindley, J., McNicol, S. (2017) 'Near Future School: World building beyond a neoliberal present with participatory design fictions.' Futures, 94pp. 15-23.
Duggan, J.R. (2014) 'Critical friendship and critical orphanship: Embedded research of an English local authority initiative.' Management in Education, 28(1) pp. 12-18.
Duggan, J.R., Piper, H. (2013) 'Interrupting the Immoral Panic around Child Abuse and Professional Touch.' International Review of Qualitative Research, 6(3) pp. 440-459.
Piper, H., Duggan, J.R., Rogers, S. (2013) 'Managerial Discourse, Child Safeguarding, and the Elimination of Virtue from In Loco Parentis Relationships: An Example from Music Education.' Power and Education, 5(3) pp. 209-221.
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Conference papers
Bermingham, S., Charlier, N., Dagnino, F., Duggan, J., Earp, J., Kiili, K., Luts, E., Van Der Stock, L., Whitton, N. (2013) 'Approaches to collaborative game-making for fostering 21st century skills.' 1. pp. 45-52.