Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1766-1783. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2018.1511720

Post-disaster tourism is often perceived as a form of Dark Tourism associated with death, loss and destruction. In Japan, the term Dark Tourism has gained prominence following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. This paper focuses on a... Read More about Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan.

Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of well-liked celebrities on adults’ implicit and explicit responses to brands (2018)
Journal Article
Rowley, M., Gilman, H., & Sherman, S. (2018). Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of well-liked celebrities on adults’ implicit and explicit responses to brands. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 402-409. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000199

Celebrities are used within advertisements in an attempt to impact positively on consumers’ attitudes towards brands, purchase intentions, and ad believability. However, the findings from previous research on the effects of celebrity liking on brand... Read More about Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of well-liked celebrities on adults’ implicit and explicit responses to brands.

Marginalising co-operation?: A discursive analysis of media reporting on the Co-operative Bank (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Marginalising co-operation?: A discursive analysis of media reporting on the Co-operative Bank. Organization, 794-811. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418763276

Recently there has been renewed academic interest in co-operatives. In contrast, media accounts of co-operatives are relatively scarce, particularly, in the United Kingdom, where business reporting usually focuses on capitalist narratives, with alter... Read More about Marginalising co-operation?: A discursive analysis of media reporting on the Co-operative Bank.

Brand personality: theory and dimensionality (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Brand personality: theory and dimensionality. Journal of Product and Brand Management, 115-127. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBM-06-2017-1499

Purpose
This paper aims to critique human personality as a theory underpinning brand personality and to propose instead a theory from human perception, and by doing so, to identify universally relevant dimensions.

Design/methodology/approach
A r... Read More about Brand personality: theory and dimensionality.