Derin Kent

Dr. Derin Kent is Associate Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, United Kingdom. His research explores how people work and thrive in extreme contexts, i.e., those that are physically or psychologically dangerous. To explore these topics, he has conducted research with storm chasing teams, seafaring crews, physicians responding to lethal viruses, and organisations recovering from terrorist attacks, embedding as an ethnographer where possible.

Derin's research has been published in a range of top academic journals (e.g., Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies) and has appeared in Harvard Business Review and The Conversation, among other outlets. This research and the panels he has organized have been quoted in business media like Financial Times and Fast Company. He also co-organizes the Extreme Contexts Seminar Series, an international and interdisciplinary workshop series for the community of extreme contexts scholars.

Prior to joining Warwick Business School, Derin worked at Aalto University (Finland) and Queen’s University (Canada). Besides research, he has experience as a university instructor in a variety of programmes in Europe and North America (including MBA and executive) and is an emergency response Group Leader at the British Red Cross, responding to various incidents ranging from gas explosions to state funerals.