Sally Dibb

Biography

Sally Dibb is Professor of Marketing and Society in CBiS. Previously she was Director of the Institute for Social Marketing at the Open University (ISM-Open) and, before that, Associate Dean at Warwick Business School. She served on the REF 2014 panel for Business and Management. Sally is Chair of the Academy of Marketing’s Segmentation and Targeting Strategy SIG and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She has authored twelve books and over 90 articles in European and US academic journals, and has successfully supervised 16 PhD students to completion. Sally’s research is inter-disciplinary, embracing technology, innovation and data science, with projects currently examining sustainable living, smart cities, privacy and security, as well as the application of ‘big data’. She is a member of the peer review college for the ESRC, Horizon 2020, the Australian Research Council and the Canadian Research Council. Sally is a trustee and board member of the charity Alcohol Research UK, and was appointed by the Secretary of State for Health as a trustee of the Alcohol Education Research Council.

Research Interest

Sally’s research focuses on consumer behaviour change, market segmentation and social marketing, with recent projects funded by the ESRC, Leverhulme, FP7, Santander and InnovateUK.