Digital marketing trends in 2023

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New year, new rules? Our Marketing and Consumption group at the University of Bristol Business School believes that 2023 will bring some important shifts in the digital marketing landscape, ranging from digital platforms supporting well-being, to new solutions to sustainability, and many more – the list goes on. Below, some of our Marketing academics and PhD researchers share their expert opinions on the upcoming development in these areas. Without a doubt, this year has plenty in store for everyone involved in this space!

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Understanding mental health care as a landscape of different professions – and what to do about it to improve its delivery

New research by the University of Bristol Business School and Curtin University (Australia) academics explores how to respond to today’s grand challenges, such as mental health, by working together across different types of organisations and professions. (more…)

Professor Daniel Neyland appointed as the new Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI) Co-Director

We’re delighted to announce and congratulate Professor Daniel Neyland on his appointment as the new Co-Director for BDFI (Bristol Digital Futures Institute). Daniel joined the University of Bristol as a social scientist in September 2022, and for over 25 years has worked on sociotechnical research, with particular interests in issues of accountability, responsibility and values in science, technology and forms of organisation.

BDFI look forward to working with him as they enter a new phase of development with more staff, projects, an operational research hub and tested facilities.

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‘Place-based Approaches for Tackling Regional Differences’ – Article by Dr Malu Villela Garcia featured in AXA publication

Person planting on hanged potsIn the below article, featured in an AXA publication on Building Societal Resilience: The Role of Inclusion in a Fragmented World, Dr Malu Villela Garcia, an AXA Fellow at the University of Bristol Business School, explores how “Place-based” approaches can help tackle regional differences and support communities to build sustainable societal resilience. 

 

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Congratulations to Dr Anita Mangan who has been appointed Editor of the Journal of Co-operative Studies

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We’re delighted to announce that Dr Anita Mangan, Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the University of Bristol Business School has been appointed Editor of the Journal of Co-operative Studies.

Dr Mangan’s research on co-operatives is broadly themed around social justice in organisation studies. She is currently working on projects about union co-ops, Irish credit unions’ responses to Covid-19, and the development of Bristol co-operatives and community benefit societies. She is lead of the Sustainable Production & Consumption and Inclusive Economy research group. 

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Are tech companies ‘algorithmically amplifying’ insecurity in the gig economy?

New research published by University of Bristol Business School and Oxford University academics reveals how hundreds of thousands of gig workers regularly experience ‘reputational insecurity’. The study, ‘Platforms disrupting reputation: precarity and recognition struggles in the remote gig economy’ published in Sociology, shows that gig workers not only have to contend with the cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing pandemic but are also left feeling frustrated and hopeless by the algorithms used by tech companies. (more…)

‘The Threat: How Digital Capitalism is Sexist – And How to Resist’

The University of Bristol Business School is delighted to announce the publication of ‘The Threat: How Digital Capitalism is Sexist – And How to Resist’ by Dr Lilia Giugni, Lecturer in Social Innovation and Strategy.

The book explores the tight embrace between patriarchy and digital capitalism, and what we should do to resist. Here, Dr Lilia Giugni discusses her new book and the explanation she offers for the current state of things grounded in the tight intersections between technological developments, patriarchal culture, and capitalistic ways of productions. (more…)