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Dr Brian McDonough
PhD, SFHEA

Senior Lecturer

School of Health and Sport

brian.mcdonough@solent.ac.uk
Room no. RM239
Brian McDonough

Biography

As a scholar of work and organisation, Brian has been teaching modules including Professional Practice; Work, Policy and Diversity, and Project Management. He is also an ethnographer and research methods specialist, and has authored his own research methods textbooks designed for undergraduate students.

Brian has published a number of internationally recognised articles, chapters and books, and his latest edited text called Sociology, Work, and Organisations: A Global Context (Routledge, 2025) is a leading text in Business and Organisations, a copy of which sits proudly in the House of Commons Library, at Parliament.

Brian is an adviser to numerous organisations and is a trustee of a large charity in Liverpool, called Alt Valley Community Trust, which runs several sports centres, libraries and other businesses and social enterprises across the city. He also has a growing media profile and has featured on BBC South Today three times since 2025, discussing work, Generation Z, and the local economy.

Pure profile

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ORCID ID

0000-0003-2249-4657

Keywords

work, mediating technology, universal basic income, body, gender, tactile, ethnography, qualitative research, social problems, bergson, heidegger, merleau-ponty

Further information

Brian has teaching experience, at undergraduate and postgraduate Level, including:

  • Professional development
  • Social problems and social inequalities
  • Work, policy and diversity
  • Researching the social world
  • Working in partnership with organisations
  • Project management
  • Management and organisational behaviour
  • Big data and technology
  • Human rights at work
  • Contemporary social theory
  • Applied project management

Taught courses

PGCert Social Work Practice Education

Extend your professional status and portfolio as a social worker to enable the learning of social work students and newly qualified social workers within placements.

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TEF 2023 Gold