Lecturer in Marketing, University of Essex
Currently, Stephen is a Lecturer in Critical Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in the Essex Business School at the University of Essex. Stephen is also a member of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Society (CWOS), which is an inter-disciplinary research group that thinks critically about different aspects of the relationship between work, organisation and society.
Stephen's research mobilises socio-cultural approaches to examine how various aspects of consumer culture shape and organise daily life, particularly in relation to consumer identities, consuming bodies and consumption experiences.
At present, Stephen is interested in motorcycling, technology, conspiracy theories and creativity.
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