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The Scottish Diet and Retail Shops
The Scottish diet has become a short-hand for unhealthy living. All the evidence points to its stubborn lack of change despite information, exhortation and even small measures of legislation. Whilst retailers and manufacturers have taken some actions on reformulation of … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Advertising, Availability, Behavioural Economics, Brands, Consumer Choice, Consumer Lifestyle, Diet and Health, Discounts, Food Retailing, Food Standards, Healthcare Retail Standard, Labelling, Marketing, Merchandising, Policy, Pricing, Research, Retail Policy, Retailers, Scotland, Scotland Food and Drink, Scottish Retailing, Small Shops, Space, Sugar Tax, Supermarket, Suppliers, Tax, Unit Pricing, University of Stirling
Tagged Consumption, Diet and Health, Display, Food retailing, Food Standards Scotland, Healthcare Retail Standard, internet retailing, Merchandising, Pricing, Product, Promotion, Retailing, Scotland, Small shops, Sugar Tax, Supermarkets, Unit Pricing
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So you think you know Scottish Towns?
Almost two years ago, Scotland’s Towns Partnership launched Understanding Scottish Places (USP) – a data platform to provide for the very first time consistent and comparable data on 479 Scottish Towns. At a time when funding is tight, there was … Continue reading
Posted in Carnegie UK Trust, Data, Institute for Retail Studies, Local Authorities, Places, Planning, Research, Retail Policy, Scotland's Town and High Streets, Scotland's Towns Partnership, Scottish Government, Town Centre Action Plan, Town Centre Review, Town Centres, Towns, Towns Typology, Understanding Scottish Places, University of Stirling, USP
Tagged Carnegie UK Trust, CLES, Data, Scotland, Scotland's Towns Partnership, towns, Understanding Scottish Places, University of Stirling, USP
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My Serious Academic Use of Blogs and Twitter
Today I am presenting at an internal, informal, lunchtime session on Case Studies in Using Social Media for Public Engagement (there may be some tweets at #stirsocialmedia). Four of us (I am joined by Rachel Norman: @AFSRachel, Paul Cairney: @CairneyPaul, … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Education, High Streets, Institute for Retail Studies, Public Engagement, Research, Research Impact, Retailing, Scottish Retailing, Social media, Town Centres, Twitter, University of Stirling
Tagged Academics, Blogs, Impact, Institute for Retail Studies, Public Engagement, Research, Research Impact, Retailing, Scotial media, Serious academic, Twitter, University of Stirling
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