Outputs (53)

Mitigating work alienation: What can we learn from employee ownership? (2024)
Journal Article

Work alienation, driven by powerlessness, meaninglessness, social isolation, and self-estrangement, negatively affects job performance and wellbeing. Yet it remains under-researched. This paper elaborates alienation theory by exploring it in a novel... Read More about Mitigating work alienation: What can we learn from employee ownership?.

Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Advance care planning has been advocated as a way for people to have their wishes recorded and respected in relation to types of treatment and place of care. However, uptake in England remains low.

Aims
To examine the views of older,... Read More about Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England.

Recognising motivation in others: The effectiveness of using social proof to change driving behaviour (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper extends the literature on social proof by looking at the effectiveness of social proof on behaviour change for environmental benefit.

Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on real case studies currently intended to... Read More about Recognising motivation in others: The effectiveness of using social proof to change driving behaviour.

Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was delivered during a Welsh Government Lunch and Learn seminar session. The presentation focused on the Children's Participation in Schools project generally - including findings from our Work Package 1 as well as providing an over... Read More about Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales.

Motonormativity: How social norms hide a major public health hazard (2023)
Journal Article

Decisions about motor transport, by individuals and policy-makers, show unconscious biases due to cultural assumptions about the role of private cars-a phenomenon we term motonormativity. To explore this claim, a national sample of 2157 UK adults rat... Read More about Motonormativity: How social norms hide a major public health hazard.

Exploring the relationship between car brands and risky driving (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose-Critical social marketing can play a vital role in countering the consequences of behaviours toxified by commercial marketing. This paper aims to hypothesise that auto sector brand activities may be associated with riskier driving.

Design/... Read More about Exploring the relationship between car brands and risky driving.

Boredom in the creative studio (2023)
Journal Article

Despite its high incidence in the workplace, boredom is yet to be examined in the context of the creative studio. This concern is particularly pertinent because creative personality types are reported to be more boredom prone than others and because,... Read More about Boredom in the creative studio.

Information behaviour in high risk decision making: Study of international postgraduates (2022)
Journal Article

This article explores the role of information in high risk consumer decision making. Forty-two qualitative interviews were undertaken with international non-EU postgraduates when making the high risk decision to study in a UK Business School. Prospec... Read More about Information behaviour in high risk decision making: Study of international postgraduates.

Bristol social marketing centre: Past, present, and future (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter covers the story of the Bristol Social Marketing Center.
The Bristol Social Marketing Centre (BSMC) was a Research Centre of Excellence within the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Founded in... Read More about Bristol social marketing centre: Past, present, and future.

Happiness and co-creation of value: Playing the blues (2021)
Journal Article

Little has been written about co-creational aspects of happiness. Happiness is generally treated in the marketing literature as an individual outcome of exchange. However, the notion of value in exchange has been challenged by service-dominant (S-D)... Read More about Happiness and co-creation of value: Playing the blues.

Personality and motives for social media use when physically distanced: A uses and gratifications approach (2021)
Journal Article

This paper explores individuals’ motives for using social media when living under ‘social distancing’ conditions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, where they were instructed to physically distance from other people. Adopting a ‘uses and gratifica... Read More about Personality and motives for social media use when physically distanced: A uses and gratifications approach.

Client-agency briefing: Using paradox theory to overcome challenges associated with client resource deployment (2021)
Journal Article

Agencies depend on client resources to fulfil their value proposition. An inadequate quantity or quality of client resources can negatively influence agency output. Advertising literature reports that agencies are frequently frustrated with deficienc... Read More about Client-agency briefing: Using paradox theory to overcome challenges associated with client resource deployment.

The effect of ethical and sustainability issues on consumer adoption of digital technology in the consumer purchasing journey (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Against a background of increasing use of digital technology in society including the retail sector, this developmental paper identifies a need for research into ethical and sustainability issues that affect an individual's decision to use digital te... Read More about The effect of ethical and sustainability issues on consumer adoption of digital technology in the consumer purchasing journey.

When identity projects go wrong - an exploration of identity-inconsistent consumption using techniques of neutralisation (2020)
Thesis

The research relates to identity projects and the question of why consumers still purchase identity-inconsistent products. Specifically, the research aims to explore what happens when identity projects goes wrong.

Identity projects is the theory t... Read More about When identity projects go wrong - an exploration of identity-inconsistent consumption using techniques of neutralisation.

How is extraversion related to social media use? A literature review (2020)
Journal Article

With nearly 3.5 billion people now using some form of social media, understanding its relationship with personality has become a crucial focus of psychological research. As such, research linking personality traits to social media behaviour has proli... Read More about How is extraversion related to social media use? A literature review.

Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation (2020)
Journal Article

Service-dominant logic maintains that value is created collaboratively through a process of resource integration. Knowledge-intensive business services, the context for this study, are heavily dependent on customer resources for the fulfilment of the... Read More about Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation.

Environmentally Sustainable Event Design (2019)
Book Chapter

Events are varied in terms of their type, scale, duration, location, time
of year and theme, and this leads to equally varied impacts. However, all events involve impacts on or of ecology, transport, water, energy, lighting, noise and waste. Sustain... Read More about Environmentally Sustainable Event Design.

An exploration of the role of bloggers and blogger characteristics, in the consumer buying process for cosmetics in the Thai market (2019)
Thesis

Consumers often use online information to help them make better buying decisions (Cheung, 2014; Lu et al., 2014). Blogs and bloggers’ opinion can be one of the most important sources of information for consumers evaluating products and services, redu... Read More about An exploration of the role of bloggers and blogger characteristics, in the consumer buying process for cosmetics in the Thai market.

Integrating sustainable supply chain practices with operational performance: An exploratory study of Chinese SMEs (2019)
Journal Article

With growing regulatory and market pressure to implement green practices, SMEs are facing enormous challenges to simultaneously improve operational and green performances of their supply chains. The paper aims to understand the green practices adopte... Read More about Integrating sustainable supply chain practices with operational performance: An exploratory study of Chinese SMEs.

Marketing Agency/Client Service-For-Service Provision in an Age of Digital Transformation (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Purpose: To explore changes in agency/client value co-creation, at a time when digital transformation is having a major impact on the marketing communications process. The theoretical framework of the res... Read More about Marketing Agency/Client Service-For-Service Provision in an Age of Digital Transformation.