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An empirical critique of the low income low energy efficiency approach to measuring fuel poverty (2024)
Journal Article

Fuel poverty is a complex socioenvironmental issue of increasing global significance. In England, fuel poverty is assessed via the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) indicator, yet concerns exist regarding the efficacy of this metric given its... Read More about An empirical critique of the low income low energy efficiency approach to measuring fuel poverty.

Detecting iodine deficiency risks from dietary transitions using shopping data (2024)
Journal Article

Plant-based product replacements are gaining popularity. However, the long-term health implications remain poorly understood, and available methods, though accurate, are expensive and burdensome, impeding the study of sufficiently large cohorts. To i... Read More about Detecting iodine deficiency risks from dietary transitions using shopping data.

Young Voters’ Engagement: A Customer Journeys Perspective (2024)
Journal Article

This interdisciplinary study aims to explore the lived experiences and engagement of young voters from a customer journey perspective. To achieve this, the present study investigates voter engagement journey with various political events (2015 UK Gen... Read More about Young Voters’ Engagement: A Customer Journeys Perspective.

Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data (2023)
Conference Proceeding

Life satisfaction significantly contributes to wellbe-ing and is linked to positive outcomes for individual people and society more broadly. However, previous research demonstrates that many factors contribute to the life satisfaction of an individua... Read More about Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data.

Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake (2023)
Conference Proceeding

Anthocyanins are a class of polyphenols that have received widespread recent attention due to their potential health benefits. However, estimating the dietary intake of anthocyanins at a population level is a challenging task, due to the difficulty o... Read More about Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake.

Exploring young voter engagement and journey mapping across political events (2023)
Journal Article

This interdisciplinary study aims to explore the lived experiences and engagement of young voters from a customer journey perspective. To achieve this, the present study investigates voter engagement journey with various political events (2015 UK Gen... Read More about Exploring young voter engagement and journey mapping across political events.

Using mobile money data and call detail records to explore the risks of urban migration in Tanzania (2022)
Journal Article

Understanding what factors predict whether an urban migrant will end up in a deprived neighbourhood or not could help prevent the exploitation of vulnerable individuals. This study leveraged pseudonymized mobile money interactions combined with cell... Read More about Using mobile money data and call detail records to explore the risks of urban migration in Tanzania.

Mapping the landscape of Consumer Food Waste (2021)
Journal Article

Since 2015 there has been a surge of academic publications and citations focused on consumer food waste. To introduce a special issue of Appetite focused on the drivers of consumer food waste we perform a transdisciplinary and historical review of th... Read More about Mapping the landscape of Consumer Food Waste.

Social Eating Initiatives and the Practices of Commensality (2021)
Journal Article

Social eating initiatives are a mode of food provisioning and eating that have become increasingly popular in the UK. These organisations provide a menu of low-cost meals prepared using food surpluses and deliberately serve food communally to improve... Read More about Social Eating Initiatives and the Practices of Commensality.

Exogenous cognition and cognitive state theory: The plexus of consumer analytics and decision-making (2020)
Journal Article

We develop the concept of exogenous cognition (ExC) as a specific manifestation of an external cognitive system (ECS). Exogenous cognition describes the technological and algorithmic extension of (and annexation of) cognition in a consumption context... Read More about Exogenous cognition and cognitive state theory: The plexus of consumer analytics and decision-making.

Identifying food insecurity in food sharing networks via machine learning (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Food insecurity in the UK has captured public attention. However, estimates of its prevalence are deeply contentious. The lack of precision on the volume of emergency food assistance currently provided to those in need is made ev... Read More about Identifying food insecurity in food sharing networks via machine learning.

The Smart Home: How Consumers Craft New Service Networks by Combining Heterogeneous Smart Domestic Products (2020)
Journal Article

Service research suggests homes are becoming increasingly connected as consumers automate and personalize new forms of service provision. Yet large-scale empirical evidence on how and why consumers automate smart domestic products is lacking. To addr... Read More about The Smart Home: How Consumers Craft New Service Networks by Combining Heterogeneous Smart Domestic Products.

FIMS: Identifying, Predicting and Visualising Food Insecurity (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Food insecurity is a persistent and pernicious problem in the UK. Due to logistical challenges, national food insecurity statistics are unmeasured by government bodies - and this lack of data leads to any local estimates that do exist being routinely... Read More about FIMS: Identifying, Predicting and Visualising Food Insecurity.

Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing (2020)
Journal Article

Prosocial exchange systems support cooperation and exchange in support of more sustainable forms of consumption. While often assumed that exchanges within such systems are reciprocal, it remains unproven as to what extent reciprocity occurs. This stu... Read More about Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing.

Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review (2019)
Journal Article

Customer engagement behaviours (CEB) on social media have the potential to strengthen relationships between firms and customers. However, there have been no systematic attempts to review the antecedents of CEB on social media despite wide recognition... Read More about Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review.

Food sharing, redistribution, and waste reduction via mobile applications: a social network analysis (2019)
Journal Article

Food sharing mobile applications are becoming increasingly popular, but little is known about the new social configurations of people using them, particularly those applications that use consumers as voluntary intermediaries in supply chains. This ar... Read More about Food sharing, redistribution, and waste reduction via mobile applications: a social network analysis.

Marketing Brexit: An exploratory study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum (2018)
Journal Article

This article presents a study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum—a democratic vote on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union. Using the marketing concept of engagement, we examine how young voters engaged cognit... Read More about Marketing Brexit: An exploratory study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum.

Online technology as a driver of sharing (2018)
Book Chapter

Critical realism and economic anthropology (2017)
Journal Article

This paper discusses basic critical realism within the context of economic anthropology and develops an approach to studying material relations between people. A diachronic form of analysis, following the work of Bhaskar and Archer, is described as a... Read More about Critical realism and economic anthropology.

Proposal, project, practice, pause: developing a framework for evaluating smart domestic product engagement (2017)
Journal Article

Smart homes are fast becoming a reality, with smart TVs, smart meters and other such “smart” devices/systems already representing a substantial household presence. These, which we collectively term “smart domestic products” (SDPs), will need to be pr... Read More about Proposal, project, practice, pause: developing a framework for evaluating smart domestic product engagement.