John Duignan

This article is about the economist. For the musician, see We Cut Corners.
John Duignan
Born(1946-01-06)6 January 1946
Barrhead, Scotland
Died22 March 2019(2019-03-22) (aged 73)
Occupationwriter and academic
LanguageEnglish
NationalityScottish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom

John Duignan (born 6 January 1946 – 22 March 2019) was a Scottish economist and writer.

Duignan was born in Barrhead, Scotland, in a family of eight children. He left school, St Mirin's Academy in Paisley, at age 15 and worked in a blacksmith's workshop, then served an engineering apprenticeship. [1] He worked in both the engineering and construction industries before going to university, where he read Economics and Economic History.

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[2] and had 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 had presented papers at conferences in the UK,[3][4] US,[5] Sweden[6] and Australia.[7]

Duignan had one stage play produced (co-written with Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins[8]), and had work performed on TV and Radio, including Not the Nine O'Clock News and Naked Video.

His works of fiction include Skelp the Aged,[9][10] co-written with Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins, The Buick Stops Here,[11] co-written with Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins, The Lambshank Redemption,[12] co-written with Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins, and the Gerry Sweeney/Katherine Black trilogy Saving The Last Dance,[13] Katherine Black Doesn't Dance[14] and Things To Do When The Music Stops.[15]

Hopkins and Duignan began writing Skelp the Aged as a play, before deciding to make it a novel.[9] The three novels in the trilogy by Hopkins and Duignan follow hapless anti-heroes Mungo and Ethel Laird, in and out of trouble - and jail - as they struggle to maintain a living as a bookies.[16][8]

His academic books include Quantitative Methods For Business Research Using Microsoft Excel[17] in 2014 and A Dictionary of Business Research Methods[18] in 2016.

Duignan died on 22 March 2019.[19]

  1. ^ "Obituary: John Duignan, Scottish lecturer and comedy writer who wrote for Not The Nine O'Clock News". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  2. ^ Duignan, John (2003). "Placement and Adding Value to the Academic Performance of Undergraduates:reconfiguring the architecture – an empirical investigation". Journal of Vocational Education & Training. 55 (3): 335–350. doi:10.1080/13636820300200233.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ 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?
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ Undergraduate work placement and academic performance: failing by doing. (HERDSA Journal, July 2002); paper delivered at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
  8. ^ a b "The secret life of the Scots comedy stars". The Herald Scotland. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  9. ^ a b Speirs, Kenneth (31 March 2016). "Duo book in for first novel: WRITE ONComedy tale started off as a play (book review)". Paisley Daily Express.
  10. ^ Skelp the Aged (Pegasus, 2016) ISBN 9781910903001
  11. ^ The Buick Stops Here (Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers, 2017) ISBN 9781910903094
  12. ^ The Lambshank Redemption (Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers, 2019) ISBN 9781910903216
  13. ^ Saving the Last Dance (Kindle, 2015)
  14. ^ Katherine Black Doesn't Dance (Cider Apple Press, 2015, available through Kindle)
  15. ^ Things to do When the Music Stops, (Cider Apple Press, 2016, available through Kindle)
  16. ^ Scott, Gary (19 April 2019). "Country gal with urban influences". The Herald (Glasgow).
  17. ^ Quantitative Methods for Business Research using Microsoft Excel (Cengage/Thomson Learning, 2014)
  18. ^ A Dictionary of Business Research Methods (Oxford University Press, 2016)
  19. ^ "Obituary: John Duignan, Scottish lecturer and comedy writer who wrote for Not The Nine O'Clock News". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 11 April 2019.