Professor John Dawson FRSE

Emeritus Professor of Marketing, University of Edinburgh

John Dawson is Emeritus Professor of Marketing at Edinburgh University and Emeritus Professor at University of Stirling. His academic life started in geography at UCL, Nottingham and Wales before becoming Fraser of Allander Professor of Distributive Studies at Stirling and subsequently Edinburgh University’s first Professor of Marketing. John’s research has focused on the changing structures and processes in retailing and marketing channels and their interactions with political and socio-cultural environments. Whilst at Stirling he established the Institute for Retail Studies which has become the UK research centre for retailing with multiple academic and corporate links. Research has been undertaken with related research groups in Europe and East Asia on periods as Visiting Professor in Italy, Spain and Japan. A number of extended periods in several Japanese Universities, supported by JSPS, resulted in joint research and doctoral student support with Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, and Chinese scholars and companies. A number of these co-researchers have been hosted for visits to Stirling and Edinburgh Universities.

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