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Dr Hilary Downey

Queen's Business School
Dr Hilary Downey

Dr Hilary Downey

Queen's Business School

Hilary is a transformative consumer researcher with interests in consumer vulnerability, health and wellbeing, and disability. She adopts ethnographic and arts-based research approaches to explore consumers’ lived experience.

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  • hilary.downey@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 5621

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of;

  • Consumer culture
  • Consumer vulnerability
  • Health
  • Wellbeing
  • Experiential consumption

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Public outreach & key achievements

•Fellow of Chartered Institute of Marleting (2016)
•Kinnear Award, Hilary Downey (Recipient), 15 Aug 2015 (AMA conference, Chicago)
•Honorary Doctorate Professor Invitado (2013) ESERP Business School in Barcelona
•Miembro De Honor DRA. Hilary Downey (2013) ESERP Business School in Barcelona
•Editor of yearly poetry chapbook for Consumer Culture Theory (2010-2018, ongoing) Sponsored by the Association of Consumer Research


Research students

PhD area Exploring Snapchat and Saudi millennials luxury brand consumption: a gendered discourse
Name Nada Almner
   
PhD area Identity and Consumption: The Phenomenon of Online Gambling
Name Jonathan Johnston

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Service Dominant Logic
Name Sevi Nacki
Years of study 2008 - 2013
Current Position Senior Research & Insight Analyst | Data Analytics | PwC Research | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC UK)

 


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