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Transformative Consumer Research is a movement within the Association for Consumer Research community that seeks to encourage, support, and publicize research that benefits consumer welfare and quality of life for all beings affected by consumption across the world. 

 

We have a number of subcommittees that help us to disseminate and connect our research to practitioners, fosters partnerships between academia, industry partner and policy makers, and create bridges between funding opportunities, funders and TCR researchers. 

 

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May 17, 2023

TCR Dialogical Conference 2023

Registration for the TCR Dialogical Conference is closing soon.

Register now.

For those finalizing funding or travel, a short extension has been granted.

Revised deadline: Tuesday May 30th 2023.

To register go here: https://www.tcr2023rhul.com/registration 

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April 28, 2023

Transformative Topics


In April, in recognition of Earth Day, this week we feature work that assess sustainable living.


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Garnelo-Gomez, Irene, Kevin Money, and David Littlewood. "From holistically to accidentally sustainable: a study of motivations and identity expression in sustainable living."  (2022) European Journal of Marketing, 56 (12), 3272-3312. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-03-2020-0226


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April 28, 2023

Transformative Topics


In April, in recognition of Financial Literacy month, we feature work that emerged from a TCR working group and TCR special issue on the subject.


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O'Connor, Genevieve E., Casey E. Newmeyer, Nancy Yee Ching Wong, Julia B. Bayuk, Laurel A. Cook, Yuliya Komarova, Cazilla Loibl, L. Lin Ong, and Dee Warmath. "Conceptualizing the multiple dimensions of consumer financial vulnerability." Journal of Business Research 100 (2019): 421-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.12.033


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April 28, 2023

Transformative Topics


For March's Transformative Topics, in recognition of International Women's Day, we focus on gender and transformative approaches advancing work in this area. This week we are featuring GENMAC (Gender, Markets, and Consumers) – www.genmac.co.

 

GENMAC is a global academic and advocacy community committed to:

1) Bringing together voices of all constituents interested in gender, marketing and consumer behavior research;

2) Supporting research to advance our knowledge on gender, markets, and consumers; and

3) Advocating for addressing discrimination, harassment, and assault in the marketing academy and society-at-large.


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April 28, 2023

Transformative Topics


For March's Transformative Topics, in recognition of International Women's Day, we feature an article on gender injustices and transformative approaches to addresses these injustices. 


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Wendy Hein, Laurel Steinfield, Nacima Ourahmoune, Catherine A. Coleman, Linda Tuncay Zayer, and Jon Littlefield (2016). Gender Justice and the Market: A Transformative Consumer Research Perspective. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 35(2), Pages 223-236. https://doi.org/10.1509/jppm.15.146

 

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February 24, 2023

Transformative Topics


Welcome to February's Transformative Topics. In recognition of Black History Month, we feature an article that can expand our pedagogical toolbox and help us have important conversations in our classrooms about race and racism in the marketplace. 



Read the article: 

Kevin D. Thomas, and Naya Jones. (2019) "Critical reflexivity: Teaching about race and racism in the advertising classroom." Advertising & Society Quarterly 20 (2).

doi:10.1353/asr.2019.0013

 

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Whether its engagements with practitioners, conferences or announcements of special issues, we keep you up-to-date on things you should mark in your calendar.

MASSIG - Marketing & Society Special Interest Group of AMA

Invitation to join the MASSIG community!


MASSIG members are marketing academics interested in public policy, macromarketing, social marketing, marketing ethics, transformative consumer research, diversity, sustainability, and/or subsistence markets. You are invited to help shape this community and to discuss how marketing and consumption impact our world and wellbeing.

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TCR Dialogical Conference

Get ready for TCR's 2023 Dialogical Conference!!


When: June 18-20 2023

Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London, UK


Co-chairs: Martina Hutton, Aronte Bennet and Eva Kipnis

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Research Impact

Engagements with industry partners and public policy makers, award winning articles and grant recipient projects are just some of the ways we make an impact in academia and society at large

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Conferences

TCR’s conferences offers researchers and practitioners an opportunity to engage in dialogue -- sharing knowledge, data, and perspectives. Together we can advance research, knowledge, practices, and actions that can improve consumer well-being.

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Featured

Consumer ethnicity three decades after: a TCR agenda

Luca M. Visconti
Aliakbar Jafari
Wided Batat
Aurelie Broeckerhoff
Ayla Özhan Dedeoglu
Catherine Demangeot
Eva Kipnis
Andrew Lindridge
Lisa Peñaloza
Chris Pullig
Fatima Regany
Elif Ustundagli
Michelle F. Weinberger

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Tell me your story and I will tell you who you are: Persona perspective in sustainable consumption

Naz Onel
Mitchel R. Murdock
Jessica Keech
Shipra Gupta
Qin Wang
Estela M Díaz
Nicole Bieak Kreidler
Avinandan Mukherjee
Pia Furchheim

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The TCR perspective of gender: Moving from critical theory to an activism-praxis orientation

Laurel Steinfield
Jon Littlefield
Wendy Hein
Catherine A. Coleman
Linda Tuncay Zayer

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Marketing #neurodiversity for well-being

Josephine Go Jefferies
Wasim Ahmed

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A systematic self-observation study of consumers' conceptions of practical wisdom in everyday purchase events 

David Glen Mick
Stephen A. Spiller
Anthony J. Baglioni

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Social media and mindfulness: From the fear of missing out (FOMO) to the joy of missing out (JOMO)

Steven S. Chan
Michelle Van Solt
Ryan E. Cruz
Matthew Philp
Shalini Bahl
Nuket Serin
Nelson Borges Amaral
Robert Schindler
Abbey Bartosiak
Smriti Kumar
Murad Canbulut

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TCR creates opportunities for engagements between practitioners, funders and researchers, and supports efforts of scholars and practitioners to disseminate and publicize their research and work, and obtain mentoring and advice on grant applications.

While many of these opportunities are freely available, we encourage scholars and practitioners to become a member of the Association of Consumer Research to help continue funding our work and to obtain additional benefits.