Summary

A global marketing academic who has worked at various HE institutions located in Australia and United Kingdom. Before joining UoP, I was employed as a Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing by Bournemouth University (BU), delivering retail units (eg Retail Buying and Merchandising, and Retail Consumer Experience and Behaviour) to UG and PGT students. I was also the Programme Coordinator of the MSc Retail Management and Marketing programme at BU. My research work has been published in various international peer-reviewed journals, such as Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Transportation Part C, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, and International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management. My work has received excellence awards from the International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, and Colloquium on European Research in Retailing. In terms of industry background, I was employed as a marketing intern at a local shopping centre by Jones Lang LaSalle (Australia). I have also gained work experience, as a research analyst, at Coca-Cola Enterprise (UK). 

Research outputs

2024

More than law-abiding: a multi-staged consumer study on brand morality

Ekinci, Y., Sit, K. (., Wei, Y.

11 Oct 2024, In: Psychology and Marketing

Customer definitions of moral value for retail brands: a qualitative understanding

Ekinci, Y., Sit, K., Wei, Y.

1 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 77, 12p., 103697

2023

Managing crisis in the cruise industry: using internal communications to foster workforce resilience

Fletcher-Brown, J., Nieto-García, M., Sharples, L., Sit, K., Viglia, G.

14 Jun 2023, In: Tourism Review, 20p.

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