Behaviour, Brand and Digital Insights

The Behaviour, Brand and Digital Insights research interest group (BBD RIG) aims to create a supporting and collaborative research culture for (digital) marketing and consumer behaviour academics. The RIG offers regular research updates, seminars by leading researchers, meet-the-editor sessions and research and funding collaboration opportunities, to enable its members to further develop their skills and improve their research profiles. The BBD RIG also holds regular meetings, creating a platform for its members to discuss their research ideas and provide constructive comments on current and future research projects.

The BBD RIG makes a strong and longstanding contribution to the research in the Department and the Faculty of Business and Law, as evidenced by its REF contribution and the research and funding successes of its members.

The BBD RIG has a strong international profile, having strong research links with a number of institutions worldwide, such as Brock University (Canada), Lebanese American University (Lebanon), Tianjin University (China), University Sains Malaysia (Malaysia), University of West Australia (Australia), Beijing Foreign Studies University (China), University of Colombo (Sri Lanka), Aarhus University (Denmark), KU Leuven, and Copenhagen Business School.

By becoming part of the BBD RIG, members can benefit from its various activities and international networks, and join a supportive, dynamic and diverse research group that can help them develop academically and professionally.

If you are a prospective PhD/postgraduate student who is interested in pursuing research in consumer behaviour, decision-making strategies, branding and brand management, digital marketing, artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing, and projects that cover other marketing aspects, please visit the following link for more information on Northumbria research degrees: www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees

Main contact: Prof. Xuemei Bian

Email: xuemei.bian@northumbria.ac.uk

Telephone: 0191 227 4714

Members

Chrysostomos Apostolidis - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Responsible Marketing, Digital Marketing, Sustainable Consumer Behaviour

Xuemei Bian - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Consumer Decision-making Strategy, Effective Branding, Advertising, and Services Marketing

Craig Bradshaw - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media, E-Marketing

David Brown- LinkedIn

Research Areas: Marketing, Qualitative methodology, Tourism, Leisure, Pedagogy

Jane Brown - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Consumer Financial Decision-making, Consumer Culture Theory, Consumer Consumption, Qualitative Methodology

Charles Cui - LinkedIn

Research Areas: International Marketing, Branding and Consumer Research. Recent research focuses on addictive consumption (e.g. Brand Addiction), Ethnic Consumers’ Social Inclusion and Socially Inclusive Marketing, Marketing Complexities of New-tech Products (e.g. Wearables), Consumer Values and Interaction with Social Media.

Kirk Dodds

Research Areas: Digital Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Segmentation, Sport Marketing in Cycling

Prabash Edirisingha - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Family consumption, Acculturation, Postmodern consumption, Consumer Culture Theory, Ethonography and Netnography

Sadia Haque

Research Areas: Consumer behaviour, Counterfeiting, Branding, Communication

Kimberley Hardcastle

Research Areas: Branding, CCT, Consumer identity projects, marketing communications, sport sector and events

David Hart - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Charitable Marketing, Customer Complaint Behaviour and Digital Marketing

Sophie Ran Liu

Research Areas: AI marketing, Ambush marketing, marketing communications

Edita Petrylaite - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Gender and Consumer behaviour, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing

Alan Shaw - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Social Marketing, Social Listening, Digital Marketing

Matt Sutherland - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Consumer Decision Making; Work-Based Learning

Anders Wappling - LinkedIn

Research Areas: Consumer Decision Making, Food Marketing, Retailing, Service Marketing, International Marketing

Research Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

Thursday 7th March 2019 - Professor Philip Kitchen, University of Salford, Editor of the Journal of Marketing Communications
Wednesday 13th March 2019 - Professor Cleopatra Veloutsou, University of Glasgow, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Product and Brand Management.

Previous Seminars

Wednesday 9th January 2019 - Dr Mona Mrad, Lebanese American University

International Research Partners Network

Brock University (Canada), Goodman School of Business.

Lebanese American University (Lebanon), Adnan Kassar School of Business.

Tianjin University (China), Marketing Department.

University Sains Malaysia (Malaysia), Graduate School of Business.

University of West Australia (Australia), Business School.

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