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Dr Morven McEachern

PhD in Marketing & Consumer Behaviour (University of Salford);

MSc in International Agricultural Economics & Food Marketing (University of Newcastle);

P/G Diploma in Management Studies (University of Abertay);

BTechnol in Agricultural Business Management (University of Aberdeen).

Lecturer

Department

Marketing

Contact

Room: D09
Tel: +44 1524 5 10685
Fax: + 44 (0)1524 593928
Email:

Professional Role

Part II Director of Studies

Plagiarism Officer

External Roles

External consultant on Business & Management degree routes, University of Bolton

Previously held external examiner roles for undergraduate Marketing programmes at the University of Bradford and the University of Wolverhampton

Agri-food expert member (2000-2011), Pesticide Residues Committee, Defra

Current Teaching

Undergraduate:

MKTG 225 Consumer Behaviour

MKTG 316 Advanced Topics in Consumer Behaviour 

MKTG 310 Marketing Research & Consultancy Project

Postgraduate:

MKTG 401 Reflexive Marketing

MNGT 516 Marketing Communications

MNGT 517 Buyer Behaviour

Dissertation supervision: MSc in Advanced Marketing Management; MSc in Management & Marketing

PhD supervision

 

Research Interests

• Ethical consumption
• Consumption practices and human-animal relationships
• Consumption of public space and place
• Visual research methods especially ethnographic film-making and photo-elicitation

Current Research

Consumption Practices & Ethics

Recently completed an ethical consumer project with Dr Marylyn Carrigan and Professor Isabelle Szmigin from the Open University and the University of Birmingham respectively. Here, we explored 'ethical consumers' commitment and responsibility towards a range of ethical consumption behaviours (e.g. boycotts/anti-consumption, environmental sustainability, food ethics) and in particular the role of flexibility in their consumption behaviours.

Currently, a special call for papers on the area of Contemporary Issues in Green/Ethical Marketing can be found at the homepage of the Journal of Marketing Management.

Consumption Practices & Human-Animal Relationships

Currently working with Dr Fiona Cheetham from the University of Salford where we are using ethnographic film-making/photelicitation techniques to explore the influencing role of identity and emotions upon the acquisition and consumption-related practices within the context of consumers and their companion animals.

Consumption of Space & Place

Currently working with both Dr Gary Warnaby from the University of Liverpool and Dr Fiona Cheetham from the University of Salford to investigate consumption of space and place in the context of the urban public park. The use of visual ethnography techniques are used to examine the seasonal rhythms of consumption. Implications for policymakers responsible for creating and developing urban public spaces are offered.

Research Grants

Pre-Proposal Funding Application to the Volkswagen Foundation, Compagnia di San Paolo and Rijksbankens Jubileumsfond for a Research Planning Grant on Europe and Global Challenges. Team Leaders: Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni of University of Münster. Title: The Retail Challenge to Sustainability: Agrifood under Stress in Asia and the EU. 2009-2010; Amount: €50.000.

 

ESRC Bursary for Training, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, 2010/2011; Amount awarded - £1100.

Profile

I joined the Department of Marketing at Lancaster University in September 2006, from the University of Salford, where I was a lecturer in Marketing for 4 years. It was during this time that I completed my PhD whilst studying part-time (2004). Prior to this, I was lecturing in Marketing and Business Ethics at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh for 3.5 years. At the beginning of my career I spent 7 years working in primary agriculture/food manufacturing. Before moving into academia, I also spent a year with an agri-food marketing research and consultancy firm as a project manager. As well as acting as an external reviewer for a variety of marketing-related journals, I am a fellow member of The Higher Education Academy and a member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching, the Academy of Marketing, European Marketing Academy (EMAC) and the Association for Consumer Research (ACR).

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