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Darren leads the Software Forensics Centre (SFC) a specialised centre focusing systems failure, software pathology and project failures. The centre holds information and cases pertaining to a large volume of international failures. The repository of failures is the largest of its kind in the world and has specific details of well over 200 projects. The forensic repository is unique in two respects. Firstly, it focuses on development failures rather than on operational failures and is therefore the only dedicated resource of its kind. Secondly, it contains detailed analysis of cases rather than just short journalistic articles.

Before becoming leader of the SFC, Darren directed the Forensic Systems Research Group at South Bank University, where he organised and disseminated the notion of systems forensics. The centre specialised in forensic research, including, forensic analysis, generation of failure histories and development and distribution of forensic case materials. Assets transferred to the Software Forensics Centre at Middlesex University include the largest failures repository in the world, and a world-wide set of contacts from which a number of collaborations have been developed.

Darren works on software failure, systems engineering, project management and risk management. In 1992 he founded and has continued as chairman of, the Forensics Working Group of the IEEE Technical Committee on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS). This is an international group of academic and industrial participants, formed to share information and develop expertise in failure. Darren is active on a number of international committees and steering groups. He maintains heavy involvement in international conference organisation and has delivered numerous key note addresses and tutorials.