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Maria Ryan

Senior Lecturer

Current teaching:

• Marketing Research.
• Applied Research Development.
• Marketing Management.

Background:

Background in Industry working as a Researcher and as a buyer of research for both international (American Express) and national government agencies (ABS). Teaching positions held at UWA and Notre Dame Universities. Teaching experience at ECU for over 15 years.

Staff qualifications:

• Bachelor Commerce UWA (1^st Hons).
• Masters in Commerce (Curtin University).
• PhD (UWA GSM).

Specialisation:

• Marketing research.
• Multivariate analysis.
• Research techniques.

Research

Research interest:

• Consumer behaviour.
• Place, people and object attachment.
• Multivariate analysis, teaching and learning research.
• Small business development in rural centres.

Current research area:

• Impact of attachment on consumption behaviour.
• Community branding of local produce.

Recent research grants:

• Teaching and learning: video for marketing research
• Physical activity: experiential consumption and promotion of physical activity.
• Examining the impact of place and community attachment on environmentally responsible behaviour (ERB) in an individual’s everyday life.