What are we up to this summer? Part 1

Lydia Martens, Jane Parish and Rebecca Leach have been in discussions with Liz Parsons (Marketing, School of Economics and Management) and external corporate parties exploring a new stakeholder consortium with a view to developing new research projects with a regional agenda.

Emma Head, Lydia Martens and Rebecca Leach are developing a new research project bid relating to their shared interests in parenting and consumption.

Mark Featherstone, James Hardie-Bick and Andy Zieleniec are working together on a research bid related to their shared research interests in risk, space and utopias.

Lydia Martens has been engaging in ongoing work on parenting with a number of field work visits.

Jane Parish has been doing a spot of ‘urban ethnography’ in relation to the potential consortium mentioned above.

Rebecca Leach has been drafting two articles, outputs from the Baby Boomers project.

Lydia Martens attended two international conferences, the ACR conference on Gender, Marketing and Consumer Behavior  (Simmons College, Boston, USA; June 2008) and the Consumer Culture Theory conference (Suffolk University, Boston; June 2008)