John Duignan
| John Duignan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 January 1946 Barrhead, Scotland |
| Occupation | writer and academic |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | Scottish |
John Duignan (see Clan O Duibhgeannain) (born 1946) is a Scottish economist and writer.
Duignan was born in Barrhead, Scotland. He left school at 15 and worked in a blacksmith's workshop then served an engineering apprenticeship. He worked in the engineering and construction industries before going to university. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Duignan lectured in economics, international business, and quantitative methods at the University of the West of Scotland where he specialised in undergraduate work placement[1] and has been Associate Lecturer at the Surrey European Management School, University of Surrey and visiting lecturer at French business schools and universities, including Montpellier, Toulon, Annecy and Le Havre. Duignan has presented papers at conferences in the UK,[2][3] US,[4] Sweden[5] and Australia.[6] Duignan has had one stage play produced (co-written with Ian Hopkins), and has had work performed on TV and Radio.
His works of fiction include Skelp the Aged[7] co-written with Ian Hopkins, and the Gerry Sweeney/Katherine Black trilogy Saving The Last Dance,[8] Katherine Black Doesn't Dance[9] and Things To Do When The Music Stops.[10] His academic books include Quantitative Methods For Business Research Using Microsoft Excel[11] in 2014 and A Dictionary of Business Research Methods[12] in 2016.
References
- ↑ "Placement and Adding Value to the Academic Performance of Undergraduates:reconfiguring the architecture – an empirical investigation".
- ↑ ASET Annual Conference, 3 – 5 September 2002, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England, Integrating Work and Learning in Europe, John Duignan and Russell Wardrop, Raising the stakes and making the links: (predicting the impact of a more structured, measurable and reflective approach to work experience.
- ↑ Duignan, J, Lush, D, and Gomez, S (2004). Undergraduate work placement and academic performance: now you see it, now you don’t. A comparative study of biosciences and business placement programmes at two separate universities. ASET Conference, 7–9 September 2004, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England
- ↑ 2005, Third International Conference on Practice-Oriented Education, 14–17 June 2005, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts US; Internship and problems of transfer of learning: does placement de-motivate interns on return to studies?
- ↑ WACE International Symposium on Work Integrated Learning, University of Trollhättan/Uddevalla, Trollhättan, Sweden on 14–17 June 2004. "Internship and Academic performance– student perceptions of WIL and training for Transfer of Learning: an empirical study
- ↑ Undergraduate work placement and academic performance: failing by doing. (HERDSA Journal, July 2002); paper delivered at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
- ↑ Skelp the Aged (Pegasus, 2016)
- ↑ Saving the Last Dance (Kindle, 2015)
- ↑ Katherine Black Doesn't Dance (Cider Apple Press, 2015, available through Kindle)
- ↑ Things to do When the Music Stops, (Cider Apple Press, 2016, available through Kindle)
- ↑ Quantitative Methods for Business Research using Microsoft Excel (Cengage/Thomson Learning, 2014)
- ↑ A Dictionary of Business Research Methods (Oxford University Press, 2016)