Professor Iain Davies

Marketing

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Personal statement

Iain lectures, researches and consults in Sustainability, Marketing and Society & Business-to-Business Marketing. He is currently Professor of Sustainability & Marketing and Director of Research (Marketing) at the University of Strathclyde. He previously led research for the KAM Best Practice Club at Cranfield School of Management, and was Director of Doctoral Studies at the University of Bath. He has a PhD in Business Ethics from Nottingham University. Prior to his academic career he held a number of posts in B2B Marketing including as a Strategic Consultant with Accenture, a Legal Policy Advisor in the Banking Sector for HMC&E and working in sales and marketing in the fair-trade sector. He specialises in Sustainable Market-Making, Marketing & Society and Business Ethics.

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Professional Activities

Jamie Flemming
Host
10/6/2025
University of Groningen
Visiting researcher
23/8/2024
Academy of Marketing (External organisation)
Advisor
5/7/2024
Academy of Marketing (External organisation)
Advisor
5/7/2024
Enhancing Sustainability Initiatives in the Hotel Sector
Recipient
8/5/2024
Economic & Social Research Council (External organisation)
Advisor
24/10/2023

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Projects

Research with Impact Funding from the Marketing Trust on behalf of the Academy of Marketing
O'Malley, Lisa (Academic) Doherty, Anne Marie (Academic) Davies, Iain (Academic)
Successful funding proposal on behalf of the Academy of Marketing for £60,000 in funding over 3 years from the Marketing Trust to support the Academy of Marketing Research Committee "Research with Impact" Awards, to be awarded up to £5,000 per project through competitive applications.
07-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2028
Academy of Marketing Early Career Writing Retreats funding from the Marketing Trust
Doherty, Anne Marie (Academic) O'Malley, Lisa (Academic) Davies, Iain (Academic) O'Leary, Killian (Academic)
Successfully awarded £12,000 from the Marketing Trust, on behalf of the Academy of Marketing, to fund annual writing retreats for Early Career Researchers in 2025 and 2026.
07-Jan-2025 - 10-Jan-2026
Academy of Marketing Early Career Capacity Building Workshop Funding from the Marketing Trust
Doherty, Anne Marie (Academic) Davies, Iain (Academic) O'Leary, Killian (Academic) O'Malley, Lisa (Academic)
Successfully awarded £21,000 from the Marketing Trust to support up to 5 Workshops from the Academy of Marketing to support capacity building for our ECR community. The first 2 workshops are due to run in November 2025.
06-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
BAM Award: Understanding the Sustainability of Retail Omni-Channel Supply Chains
Davies, Iain (Co-investigator)
Exploratory investigation into the operational implications of the transition to Omni-Channel Retail
12-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship on Social Entrepreneurship
Davies, Iain (Principal Investigator)
investigation into organizational identity in social entrepreneurial organizations.
01-Jan-2013 - 31-Jan-2013
Solicitors Own Software KTP
Davies, Iain (Principal Investigator)
PI for KTP on expanding the SOC offering to new markets
01-Jan-2009 - 04-Jan-2011

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Professor Iain Davies
Marketing

Email: iain.davies@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3777