Dr Zaina Gadema

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Zaina is the Programme Leader for Logistics & Supply Chain Management BA (Hons) degree programme at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. She has extensive teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her scholarly research focuses on the multi-disciplinary fields of sustainable supply chain management, political economy, critical social theory, organisational behaviour, behavioural economics, nudge theory for decision making and policy formation and LCA.

Campus Address

Room CCE1 - 239, Newcastle Business School
City Campus East, Business and Law Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

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Key Publications

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Critical Thinking in Sustainable Business: Examining Pragmatic and Ethical Issues for Supporting Biodiversity (Eco-centrism) in Business Education, Kopnina, H., Baranowski, M., Nantunda, L., Mande, W., Radovanovic, T., Gadema, Z. 9 Apr 2025, Practices, Perceptions and Prospects for Climate Change Education in Africa, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
One size does not fit all: agri-food supply chain resilience in small and medium enterprises, Martins Sa, M., Gadema, Z., Shokri, A., Noorizadegan, M., Gonul, M. 2022, 29th International EurOMA conference
The use and usefulness of carbon labelling food: A policy perspective from a survey of UK supermarket shoppers, Gadema, Z., Oglethorpe, D. Dec 2011, In: Food Policy
Approaching disaster management through social learning, O'Brien, G., O'Keefe, P., Gadema, Z., Swords, J. 2010, In: Disaster Prevention and Management
Evaluating the uptake of carbon footprinting and labelling using PAS 2050:2008 in UK food supply chains, Gadema, Z. Jun 2010, Newcastle Business School’s Annual Doctoral Conference 2010
Geographers and geography: making waves for the wrong reasons, O'Keefe, P., O'Brien, G., Gadema, Z., Swords, J. 2010, In: Area
Putting a label on it, Gadema, Z. 31 May 2010, In: European Supply Chain Management
The impact of carbon footprinting and carbon labelling food in the UK: which way forward?, Gadema, Z. Jul 2010, 6th Annual Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI) Doctoral Colloquium
Carbon footprinting food commodities: does PAS 2050 mean we can have our cake and eat it?, Gadema, Z. 19 Jun 2009, Newcastle Business School’s Annual Doctoral Conference
Climate change and disaster impact reduction, Gadema, Z., Aryal, K. 2008