Dr Andrea Tonner
Senior Lecturer
Marketing
Personal statement
I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing and currently serve as Associate Dean (Learning Enhancement) for Strathclyde Business School. I previously worked for many years as a marketing practitioner in the fast moving consumer goods and energy markets.
My academic practice integrates research, teaching and leadership around the themes of consumer and marketplace inclusion and I lead the Academy of Marketing Food Marketing Special Interest Group. I teach across undergraduate, honours and postgraduate programmes, with a particular focus on consumer behaviour, brand management and marketing communications. My teaching is strongly research-informed, drawing on my work on food insecurity, digital vulnerability, body image, and inclusive marketplace design to help students connect consumer theory to contemporary social and marketing challenges.
Area of Expertise
- Consumer vulnerability, wellbeing & marketplace exclusion
- Digital culture, body image & algorithmic harm
- Food culture, insecurity & community health
- Learning disabilities, inclusion & participatory research methods
- Interpretive, qualitative and community-engaged methodologies
- Learning enhancement strategy, curriculum development & AACSB Assurance of Learning
Prize And Awards
- The Mary Kinghorn Davies Award for Research Impact
- Recipient
- 2025
- SBS Innovation with Future Impact Award (2024)
- Recipient
- 2025
- ESRC 3+ Studentship
- Recipient
- 2006
Qualifications
LLB (Hons), University of Strathclyde
MBA, Heriot-Watt University
MRes, University of Strathclyde
PhD (Marketing/Consumer Culture), University of Strathclyde
Publications
- Careless (food) marketing : a caring agenda for studying food
- Tonner Andrea, Wilson Juliette, Cappellini Benedetta
- European Journal of Marketing (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/ejm-04-2024-0332
- Studying food insecurity : theoretical and methodological reflections
- Tonner Andrea, Gibbs Juliette, Cappellini Benedetta, Gordon Kathryn, Scott Karen Anne, Hamilton Kathy, Kearney Treasa, Parsons E, Surman E
- Academy of Marketing Conference (2025)
- From Betty Crocker to the affective rise of the tradwife phenomena : a visual historical discourse of anti feminism
- McGrath Marsaili, Tonner Andrea, Hewer Paul
- Academy of Marketing Conference, 2025 (2025)
- Reimagining maternal marketing legacies : from Betty Crocker to mumfluencers - a critical visual analysis of persistent maternal hegemonies
- McGrath Marsaili, Tonner Andrea, Hewer Paul
- Consumer Culture Theory Conference 2025 (2025)
- Health literacy towards body image, eating disorders and social media among young adults in Bulgaria : an exploratory study
- Tonner Andrea, Eckler Petya
- European Conference on Health Communication (2025)
- What constitutes #healthyliving on Instagram? Longitudinal content analysis of posts during 2019-2021
- Eckler Petya, Tonner Andrea
- European Conference on Health Communication (2025)
Teaching
I teach across undergraduate, honours and postgraduate levels, specialising in:
Consumer Culture - identity, motivation, perception, vulnerability, transitional consumption
Marketing Communications - creative strategy, agency collaboration, communication planning
Brand Management - brand equity, cultural branding, luxury, brand meaning and consumer -brand relationships
Advanced Qualitative Methods- particpatory methods, arts-based method and epistemic justice
I also contribute to staff development through Faculty-wide enhancement workshops and support for programme teams as part of my Associate Dean Learning Enhancement role.
Research Interests
My research sits at the intersection of Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) and Transformative Consumer Research (TCR), with a sustained focus on inclusion and wellbeing. I examine how consumers navigate identity, care and constraint across contexts including food poverty, learning disabilities, digital harms, rural deprivation, parenting, and water insecurity.
I have led and contributed to interdisciplinary projects funded by the Academy of Marketing and Marketing Trust, Wellcome Trust Collaborative Cultures and ESRC Impact Accelerator, working with partners in health, social care, third-sector organisations and international institutions. My research informs community practice, policy debates and academic understanding of marketplace exclusion. Recent publications include work in European Journal of Marketing, Annals of Tourism Research, Marketing Theory, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing and Journal of Rural Studies.
I supervise doctoral research in digital culture, marketplace exclusion, food poverty and global risk.
Professional Activities
- Body image in a socio-cultural, medical and other contexts in Bulgaria
- Organiser
- 10/12/2025
- Strathclyde Learning Disabilities Research Network -Research Symposium on Economic and Social Inclusion
- Participant
- 2/10/2025
- Reflections on Teaching Advanced Qualitative Methods to PhD Students
- Contributor
- 19/6/2025
- Theoretical Challenges and Methodological Frontiers in Food Services Marketing
- Participant
- 9/5/2025
- University Of Strathclyde (Organisational unit)
- Member
- 9/4/2025
- Academy of Marking ECR Workshop
- Organiser
- 2025
Projects
- Beyond the Digital Divide: Exploring Digital Experiences of Consumers with Learning Disabilities.
- Tonner, Andrea (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- ESRC IAA 2023 / R220785-177
- Tonner, Andrea (Co-investigator)
- Building Resilient Migrant-Led Enterprises: Innovation, Inclusion, Impact
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
- Knowledge into practice events supporting Down's Syndrome Scotland
- Tonner, Andrea (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
- Digital Brand Personality
- Ghorbani, Mijka (Researcher) Tonner, Andrea (Academic) Tsougkou, Eleni (Lenia) (Academic)
- 01-Jan-2021