Week three of teaching done and all I want to do is curl up and sleep for my weekend solid. However, I have going through my head a half dozen activities and tasks am trying to get right for my classes next week. Something to do with holiday choices; trolling students facebook profiles in order to critique consumer identities; a blind date based market research session... it goes on. To get right, a good lecture activity probably takes five or six hours to work out. For about 15 minutes class time. It is an exhausting ratio; but if it goes well then can recycle in one form or another forever after. This week I have had three lectures based on a Jeremy Kyle type audience baiting TV show for instance. In one we were yelling at a bin representing BP after the 2011 Gulf oil spill. In another the poor pot plant in the corner was standing in for Kim Jong Un and his repellent regime. I have no idea if the students learnt the points about sustainable and ethical disaster management, or polit...
I am a marketing academic interested in the consumer behavior side in particular. My background is a PhD in sustainable tourism and I am interested in how and why individuals and societies consume. This blog is a space to share my research ideas and experiences. This is a personal site and all views expressed here are my own.