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One in ten older adults aged >45 years report having no-one to turn to for help at the end of life apart from professionals - Who are they? (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Verne, J., Tapp, A., Nancarrow, C., Morey, Y., & Warren, S. (2019, May). One in ten older adults aged >45 years report having no-one to turn to for help at the end of life apart from professionals - Who are they?. Poster presented at 16th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EPAC), Berlin, Germany

- Background: There is increased interest in the impact of living alone and loneliness on people’s wellbeing at the end of life and practicality of providing care, especially at home. In a nationally representative sample of 3,590 people aged >45 yea... Read More about One in ten older adults aged >45 years report having no-one to turn to for help at the end of life apart from professionals - Who are they?.

Political Affiliation and Population Views on the Role of Family and Volunteer Carers to Supplement State Provision in End of Life Care in England (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Verne, J., Tapp, A., Nancarrow, C., Warren, S., & Morey, Y. (2019, May). Political Affiliation and Population Views on the Role of Family and Volunteer Carers to Supplement State Provision in End of Life Care in England. Poster presented at 16th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Berlin, Germany

Political affiliation and population views on the role of family and volunteer carers to supplement state provision in end of life care in England Alan Tapp, Clive Nancarrow, Yvette Morey, Stella Warren, Julia Verne Background: In England politicia... Read More about Political Affiliation and Population Views on the Role of Family and Volunteer Carers to Supplement State Provision in End of Life Care in England.

Analysing cycling as a social practice: An empirical grounding for behaviour change (2015)
Journal Article
Spotswood, F., Chatterton, T., Tapp, A., & Williams, D. (2015). Analysing cycling as a social practice: An empirical grounding for behaviour change. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 29, 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2014.12.001

© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Despite significant national and local efforts over the last decade to stimulate uptake of cycling in the UK, levels of cycling (particularly utility cycling) remain at around 2% of journeys. Understandi... Read More about Analysing cycling as a social practice: An empirical grounding for behaviour change.

Online access panels for surveys on public health and epidemiology (2014)
Report
Nancarrow, C., & Tapp, A. (2014). Online access panels for surveys on public health and epidemiology

In both the private and public sectors research on attitudes and behaviour is often carried out using “online access panels” – panels sometimes consisting of hundreds of thousands of members of the public who have agreed to answer questionnaires on a... Read More about Online access panels for surveys on public health and epidemiology.

From the 4Ps to COM-SM: Reconfiguring the social marketing mix (2013)
Journal Article
Gordon, R., Tapp, A., & Spotswood, F. (2013). From the 4Ps to COM-SM: Reconfiguring the social marketing mix. Journal of Social Marketing, 3(3), 206-222. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-01-2013-0011

In this paper, the authors aim to contend that the 4Ps of social marketing have been stretched beyond breaking point. Originally designed for social marketing mixes that contained products and prices, the social marketing 4Ps are no longer fit for pu... Read More about From the 4Ps to COM-SM: Reconfiguring the social marketing mix.

Beyond persuasion: A cultural perspective of behaviour (2013)
Journal Article
Spotswood, F., & Tapp, A. (2013). Beyond persuasion: A cultural perspective of behaviour. Journal of Social Marketing, 3(3), 275-294. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-01-2013-0006

Purpose: This research suggests that understanding problem behaviours through a cultural lens may offer multifarious layers of insight and provide opportunities for more effective intervention than the classical psychological perspective and cognitiv... Read More about Beyond persuasion: A cultural perspective of behaviour.

Social Marketing (2012)
Book
Eagle, L., Dahl, S., Hill, S., Bird, S., Spotswood, F., & Tapp, A. (2012). Social Marketing. Pearson Education

Social marketing is receiving unprecedented focus and support from government, the private sector and charities internationally. Social marketing attempts to educate people in the hope that they will make ‘informed’(i.e. healthy) choices regarding di... Read More about Social Marketing.

Overcoming the self-image incongruency of non-cyclists (2012)
Journal Article
Leonard, S., Spotswood, F., & Tapp, A. (2012). Overcoming the self-image incongruency of non-cyclists. Journal of Social Marketing, 2(1), 23-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/20426761211203238

Purpose: The image of cyclists has been increasingly recognised as an important factor in social marketing programmes aimed at increasing cycling. The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a multi-stage research project exploring image in... Read More about Overcoming the self-image incongruency of non-cyclists.

Some reasonable but uncomfortable questions about social marketing (2012)
Journal Article
Spotswood, F., French, J., Tapp, A., & Stead, M. (2012). Some reasonable but uncomfortable questions about social marketing. Journal of Social Marketing, 2(3), 163-175. https://doi.org/10.1108/20426761211265168

The purpose of this paper is to explore the scope of social marketing by re-examining some of its core concepts: the balance between the “wants” of individuals with the “needs” of society; the nature of exchange; the inclusion of techniques not expli... Read More about Some reasonable but uncomfortable questions about social marketing.

Achieving effective academic/practitioner knowledge exchange in marketing (2008)
Journal Article
Hughes, T., Tapp, A., & Hughes, R. (2008). Achieving effective academic/practitioner knowledge exchange in marketing. Journal of Marketing Management, 24(1-2), 221-240. https://doi.org/10.1362/026725708X274019

Marketing management research and teaching has been criticised for some time as being divorced from practice. However, there has been little research into the nature of knowledge exchange between academics and practitioners in the marketing field. In... Read More about Achieving effective academic/practitioner knowledge exchange in marketing.

Physics envy (2007)
Journal Article
Tapp, A. (2007). Physics envy. Marketing Intelligence and Planning, 25(3), 229-231. https://doi.org/10.1108/02634500710747743

Purpose - This paper seeks to identify and discuss a phenomenon with a hidden but severe impact on the conduct of research and teaching in marketing. Design/methodology/approach - Solicited as a viewpoint contribution, with permission to think aloud.... Read More about Physics envy.

From CRM to FRM: applying CRM in the football industry (2006)
Journal Article
Adamson, G., Jones, W., & Tapp, A. (2006). From CRM to FRM: applying CRM in the football industry. Journal of Database Marketing and Customer Strategy Management, 13(2), 156-172

In this paper, the authors develop a conceptual and implementation framework for 'fan relationship management' (FRM) that learns from the successes and failures of conventional customer relationship management (CRM) but considers the special nature o... Read More about From CRM to FRM: applying CRM in the football industry.

Why practitioners don't read our articles and what we should do about it (2005)
Journal Article
Tapp, A. (2005). Why practitioners don't read our articles and what we should do about it. Marketing Review, 5(1), 3-13

This article questions the value of much academic marketing's 'top' journal literature. The argument made is that current strong pressures (driven by the RAE) to publish in journals that are dominated by positivistic approaches is damaging to both pu... Read More about Why practitioners don't read our articles and what we should do about it.

Revolution marketing (2005)
Book
Gamble, P., Tapp, A., Stone, M., & Marsella, A. (2005). Revolution marketing. London: Kogan Press

The use of direct marketing in higher education (2003)
Presentation / Conference
Tapp, A., Hicks, K., & Stone, M. (2003, September). The use of direct marketing in higher education. Paper presented at Higher Education Marketers Conference, Cardiff, UK

eManaging sport customers (2003)
Book Chapter
Tapp, A. (2003). eManaging sport customers. In J. Beech, & S. Chadwick (Eds.), The Business of Sport Management. UK: Pearson Education

Future marketers: Future curriculum: Future shock? (2002)
Presentation / Conference
Evans, M., Nancarrow, C., Tapp, A., & Stone, M. (2002, July). Future marketers: Future curriculum: Future shock?. Paper presented at Academy of Marketing Conference, Nottingham, UK

New marketing, new marketers? (2002)
Presentation / Conference
Tapp, A., Stone, M., Nancarrow, C., & Evans, M. (2002, May). New marketing, new marketers?. Paper presented at EMAC Conference, Portugal

Emerging trends in the use of the Internet – lessons from the football sector (2000)
Journal Article
Beech, J., Chadwick, S., & Tapp, A. (2000). Emerging trends in the use of the Internet – lessons from the football sector. Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, 3(1), 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/13522750010310479

Literature findings suggest a powerful role for Web sites in football club marketing. The authors used this as a springboard for an exploratory study which combined qualitative interviews with empirical observations of football Web sites. Links were... Read More about Emerging trends in the use of the Internet – lessons from the football sector.

Direct marketing communications (1999)
Book Chapter
Tapp, A. (1999). Direct marketing communications. In D. Picton, & A. Broderick (Eds.), Integrated marketing communications. FT Pitman (Pearson)

Towards a branding framework for cause-, funding-and need-oriented charities (1999)
Journal Article
Tapp, A., Lindsay, G., & Sorrell, R. (1999). Towards a branding framework for cause-, funding-and need-oriented charities. Journal of Marketing Communications, 5(1), 39-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/135272699345734

One of the authors recently developed a framework of strategic orientations that charities will typically move through during their life cycle; these were termed cause, funding and need. Another author also recently investigated appropriate branding... Read More about Towards a branding framework for cause-, funding-and need-oriented charities.

‘From the 4 Ps to the 3 Rs of marketing’. Using relationship marketing to retain football club supporters and improve income (1998)
Journal Article
Clowes, J., & Tapp, A. (1998). ‘From the 4 Ps to the 3 Rs of marketing’. Using relationship marketing to retain football club supporters and improve income. Managing Leisure, 3(1), 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13606719808559322

Football clubs have traditionally adopted a product-focused approach to their business activity and have in recent years moved to a more promotion-orientated strategy. These approaches are still based on the traditional ‘transactions’ paradigm develo... Read More about ‘From the 4 Ps to the 3 Rs of marketing’. Using relationship marketing to retain football club supporters and improve income.

Social marketing to encourage initiation and continuation of breastfeeding in Penhill and Pinehurst, Swindon
Report
Pollard, K., Condon, L., Warren, S., Collins, K., Tapp, A., Boyles, A., & Ricketts, A. Social marketing to encourage initiation and continuation of breastfeeding in Penhill and Pinehurst, Swindon

Executive Summary • NHS Swindon has targets to increase the initiation and duration of breastfeeding to 6-8 weeks and beyond. A number of interventions have been implemented to increase local breastfeeding prevalence, including the UNICEF Baby Frien... Read More about Social marketing to encourage initiation and continuation of breastfeeding in Penhill and Pinehurst, Swindon.