Personal statement
Dr Jafari is Director of MSc International Marketing Programme and member of Research Management Group in the Department of Marketing. He is also member of Strathclyde Business School's Internationalisation Committee. He joined the University of Strathclyde in September 2008 after completing his PhD. Before joining academia, he held international marketing positions in the Iranian automotive industries for several years.
He sits on the editorial review board of Consumption, Markets & Culture and senior editorial advisory board of Journal of Islamic Marketing. He also sits on the editorial board of Journal of Marketing Management, Marketing Theory, Iranian Journal of Management Studies, Tourism Planning and Development, International Journal of Islamic Marketing and Branding and several other academic journals.
Dr Jafari has served Marketing Theory as guest co-editor of two special issues: "Non-western contexts: The invisible half " (2012) and "Islamic Encounters in Consumption and Marketing" (2013) and a special commentary section on "Ethnicity and Wellbeing in Marketing and Consumer Research" (2015). As invited (keynote) speaker he has delivered talks in different academic and professional events in the UAE, UK, Malaysia, Turkey, and Iran. He has co-edited 'Islam, Marketing and Consumption: Critical Perspectives on the Intersections' (Routledge, 2016) (with Ö. Sandıkcı) and the four-volume set of 'New Directions in Consumer Research' (Sage, 2015) (with P. Hewer and K. Hamilton).
He has received Consumer Culture Theory Conference's 2016 Best Special Session Award (with Ö. Sandıkcı), Emerald's 2015 Citations of Excellence Award for his single-authored journal article "Islamic Marketing: insights from a critical perspective" and Consumption, Markets & Culture's 2014 Honourable Mention Award for his co-authored (with C. Goulding) journal article "Globalization, Reflexivity and the Project of the Self: A Virtual Intercultural Learning Process". Dr Jafari also received a prestigious Visiting Associate Professor Research Fellowship from The Scientific & Technological Research Council Of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 2016.
Teaching
During the past seven years, Dr Jafari has been consecutively nominated by his students for the University of Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Award in all categories of Overall Best Teacher, Passion for Subject, Most Innovative Teacher, and Most Supportive Teacher. He teaches mainly at postgraduate levels (MSc, MBA and EMBA) and his key areas of teaching include Strategic Marketing Management, Marketing Management, and Cross-cultural Buyer Behaviour. As visiting Associate Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece, he also contributes to teaching for the International Marketing postgraduate programme.
Research interests
Dr. Jafari's research focuses on consumer culture, theories of globalisation, emerging markets, multiculturalism, politics and policies of consumption, and religions/spiritualities. He studies markets as social contexts in which multiple formal and informal institutions interact, values and systems of meanings are constantly created and recreated, and complex human relations are (re)shaped. He has served different international conferences (e.g., Transformative Consumer Research, Macromarketing, and International Society for Markets and Development) as Track Chair.
Professional activities
- Market Mediation of Ethno-Religious Conflicts
- Recipient
- 10/5/2018
- Invited Speaker at Halal Industry Conference
- Participant
- 3/5/2018
- External Examiner of BA and MSc International Management Programmes at SOAS University of London
- Examiner
- 2018
- 2nd Marketing Management Conference
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 22/2/2017
- Interviewed by Discovery Science Network
- Interviewee
- 9/11/2016
- Service Quality in Hospitality and Tourism: Experiencing Persian Heritage Conference (Event)
- Member
- 16/7/2016
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Projects
- The institutional role of imagination in the formation of a market: an investigation of the emergence of a global halal market (Newton Fund)
- Jafari, Aliakbar (Principal Investigator)
- Period 13-Mar-2017 - 09-Mar-2018
- Employee Family Work Balance and Company Performance: Irreconcilable or Complementary
- Karampela, Maria (Co-investigator) Gounaris, Spiros (Principal Investigator) Jafari, Aliakbar (Co-investigator)
- Funding application to ESRC
- Period 01-Sep-2016 - 31-Aug-2019
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