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I joined Keele University as a lecturer in September, 2006. Prior to that I successfully completed a Masters in Research here in 2003 and a PhD in 2007. I have a degree in Business Studies and English from MMU. Before coming to Keele I was employed as a researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, and have many years experience in sales and marketing in the steel industry. My research and writing is in the area of women’s business and I have a particular interest in consumption and identity.
My PhD is critical, empirical, phenomenological, feminist and post structural. The PhD was funded by The ‘Grigor McClelland’ competitive scholarship awarded by The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies in 2003. It explores: the reasons why women who are interested in starting up in business often fail to succeed, looking at the process of start-up and how entrepreneurship is produced as a male domain. The substantive themes of my PhD focus upon time, space, gender, identity, social inclusion/exclusion and consumption. It is significantly different from previous research on this topic as it explores start-up as an act of transgression and explores the small business space as a place of performance rather than economic gain.
- Miller, C; Maclaren P; Parsons, L and Surman, E (2009) Praxis or Performance: Does Critical marketing have a Gender Blind-spot? Journal of Marketing Management ISSN 0267-257x.
- Miller, C and Kerfoot, D (2009) Organising entrepreneurship: Women, invisibility and self-employment in Revealing and Concealing Gender. Simpson, R and Lewis, S (Eds).
- Miller, C (2008/9) Sustainable Marketing and the Green Consumer in Contemporary Issues in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. Maclaren, P and Parsons, L (Eds) Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann. ISBN 9780 7506 87393.
- Miller, C (2008) Teaching in Higher Education: Dealing With Difference. Proceedings of IASK International Conference. ISBN: 978-972-99397-8-5.
- Miller, C (2005) ‘Space Oddity’ International Journal for Management Theory and Practice. Vol 40, pp19-26.ISBN 1820-0222.
- Miller, C. and Grant, J. (2002) Changing Spaces: Rural Women and Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Business and Economics. Vol 2, No 1, pp276-282.
Selected Publications
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2009. Organising Entrepreneurship: Women, invisibility and Self-employment in Revealing and Concealing Gender. In Revealing and Concealing Gender. Simpson R and Lewis S (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan.
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2009. Praxis or Performance: Does Critical marketing have a gender blind spot?. Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 25(7-8), 713-728. doi>
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2008. Sustainable marketing and the green consumer. In Contemporary issues in marketing and consumer behaviour. Maclaren P and Parsons L (Eds.). Oxford: Elservier Butterworth Heinemann.
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2008. Teaching in Higher Education: Dealing with difference. IASK International.
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2005. Space Oddity. International Journal for Management Theory and Practice, vol. 40, 19-26.
Full Publications List show
Books
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Women's Business? Carnivalesque Spaces and Transgressive Acts. Lambourne Academic Publishing.
Journal Articles
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2009. Praxis or Performance: Does Critical marketing have a gender blind spot?. Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 25(7-8), 713-728. doi>
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2008. Teaching in Higher Education: Dealing with difference. IASK International.
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2005. Space Oddity. International Journal for Management Theory and Practice, vol. 40, 19-26.
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2002. Changing spaces: rural women and entrepreneurship. International journal of business economics, vol. 2(1), 276-282.
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Making Sense of marketing Work: gender and embodiment in the Marketing professsion. Journal of Marketing Management.
Chapters
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2009. Organising Entrepreneurship: Women, invisibility and Self-employment in Revealing and Concealing Gender. In Revealing and Concealing Gender. Simpson R and Lewis S (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan.
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2008. Sustainable marketing and the green consumer. In Contemporary issues in marketing and consumer behaviour. Maclaren P and Parsons L (Eds.). Oxford: Elservier Butterworth Heinemann.
Other
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2003. Constituting the entrepreneural self: gender and entrepreneurship.
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Hidden emotional labour: an exploration of the role of women as harmonisers.
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How do I think about me? Disparate identities from Self-Employment.
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Marketing Performances: gender and embodiment in the aesthetic economy of marketing.
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Polyphony and Dialogism in the Carnivalesque Space of enterprise.
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Starting up inequality? The case of a self emplyment workforce.
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Teaching in higher Education: Dealing with Difference.
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The Carnivalesque Space of Enterprise? Success, failure and women entrepreneurs.
Year 1
MAN-10001 - Marketing Principles (Module Leader)
MAN-20003 - Introduction to Marketing
Year 2
MAN-20020 – Understanding the Consumer (Module Leader)
MAN-20021 – Marketing Management (Module Leader) – Project
MAN-20023 – Marketing Research
Year 3
MAN-30029 – Marketing Strategy (Module Leader)
MAN-30034 – Global Marketing
Postgraduate
MAN-40046 – Marketing research Theory and Practice
MAN-40047 – Branding (Module Leader)
Academic Grants/Prizes:
- Society for the Advancement of Management Studies Grigor McClelland Scholarship 2003.
- Miller, C and Kerfoot, D (2005) The ‘Carnivalesque’ space of enterprise?: success, failure and women entrepreneurs. Won Best Paper In Stream - British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference, Said Business School, University of Oxford, 13th – 15th September, 2005.

