Research Seminar Series: Professor Stewart Clegg

Speaker: Professor Stewart Clegg
Title: Power and Leadership
Date: Thursday, 30 April 2026
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Allan Barton Forum, Level 2, CBE Building 26C

Abstract: Rather than a conventional paper presentation, in this session Stewart Clegg will present an overview of fifty years engagement with the field of power in organisations, doing so in a workshop mode with some interactive opportunities. The discussion will range over philosophical, historical and contemporary approaches to power and leadership and some of their paradoxes, focusing on some of his work as well as that of others.

Speaker bio: Stewart Clegg was Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney before joining the Department of Project Management in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney in 2021. He is a Virtual Visiting Professor at University of Stavanger, Norway and at Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal. In the past he has held Chair appointments at the University of New England, University of St. Andrews, University of Western Sydney as well as many Visiting Appointments, including at the Universities of Cambridge, Stanford, Newcastle (UK) and Aston and Copenhagen Business School. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential contributors to organization studies and project management, recognized as such by numerous Fellowships, as well as being one of the most significant contemporary theorists of power relations.

He has held several ARC Linkage Grants investigating phenomena such as alliancing, as well as program delivery, in Sydney Water. Currently he is involved in empirical teamwork for the Asia Pacific Organization, investigating member nation governmental digital strategies, as well as an upcoming ASSA (Academy of the Social Sciences) workshop on Public Private Partnerships.

He is an EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) Honorary Member, a lifetime achievement award; he is a Fellow of EURAM (European Academy of Management); Fellow of the AOM (Academy of Management) Distinguished Fellow of ANZAM (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management); Fellow of BASS (British Academy of the Social Sciences); an Aston Fellow and a Fellow of ASSA (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia). He is a prolific contributor to scientific journals as well as the author and editor of over 50 books.