I am an entrepreneurial marketer with a special interest in social enterprise and marketing. I possess experience running community development organisations as part of regeneration schemes. I also serve on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Marketing as Treasurer.

My PhD examines micro enterprise brand narratives within the creative industries, specically Scottish Craft. I am interested in how very small - often one-person businesses - can create powerful brand value and how this is reflected in owner-manager lifestory. I have combined an interest in the creative sector with preliminary studies of how art and cultural projects are used in areas of multiple deprivation. Most recently I have been examining the role of third-sector organisations in community regeneration and how entrepreneurial marketing contributes to change and development.

I am currently working on an edited volume The Edward Elgar Research Handbook of Entrepreneurial Marketing.

I aim to build research around the broad theme of social entrepreneurial marketing with specific reference to poverty reduction, economic development and community regeneration. I will retain an interest in cultural issues in marketing and entrepreneurship.

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Housing and Regeneration Directorate, Scottish Government. Scottish Enterprise. Academy of Marketing.

I have worked in enterprise development, training, and public private partnerships and am be keen to contribute to new forms of successful collaborative working that fits in with my preferred reserch settings - cultural and/ or area regneration.