Amanda Spry

Dr. Amanda Spry

Senior Lecturer

Details

  • College: Economics Finance & Marketing
  • Department: Economics Finance & Marketing
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • amanda.spry@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Amanda Spry investigates the critical role that brands play for consumers, companies, markets, and society.

Across her research projects, she studies the capacity and versatility of brands to drive a company's bottom line, to engage in sociopolitical activism, and to contribute to societal transformation. Amanda has published in leading journals such as the European Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing. She has presented her research at prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, as well as conferences for the American Marketing Association and the European Marketing Academy, amongst others. She serves on the editorial review board of the European Journal of Marketing. Amanda is currently the Workplace Integrated Learning Coordinator for the School of Economics, Finance, and Marketing and is the recipient of various teaching awards. She has contributed to The Conversation editorial outlet and provided comment in Australian media outlets such as AdNews, B&T, and The Financial Times as a branding expert.

Academic positions

  • Lecturer (Marketing)
  • RMIT University
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2018 – Present
  • Lecturer (Marketing)
  • Cardiff University
  • Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • 2015 – 2018
  • Early Career Academic Fellow (Marketing)
  • University of Melbourne
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2013 – 2015
  • PhD Candidate (Marketing)
  • University of Melbourne
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2009 – 2013
  • Research Consultant
  • Colmar Brunton
  • , Australia
  • 2007 – 2009

Supervisor projects

  • Mom entrepreneurs in Chinese social commerce
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • A Multi-dimensional Understanding of the Phenomenon of Transformative Branding within the Polarised Indian Marketplace
  • 12 Jan 2023

Research interests

Marketing
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.