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Associate Professor Gayle Kerr

QUT Business School,
Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations

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Name
Associate Professor Gayle Kerr
Position(s)
Associate Professor
QUT Business School,
Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations
Discipline *
Marketing
Phone
+61 7 3138 1243
Fax
+61 7 3138 1811
Email
Location
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Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)

Keywords

Advertising, Advertising Education, Advertising management and strategy, Advertising self regulation, Integrated Marketing Communication, Integrated Marketing Communication Education

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Biography

Background

Gayle is an Associate Professor in advertising and integrated marketing communication (IMC) in the School of Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations. Gayle worked in the creative side of advertising before joining academia more than a decade ago to teach and research in advertising and IMC. Her areas of research interest include

  • advertising ethics and self-regulation
  • advertising management and strategic research
  • integrated marketing communication
  • educational issues in both advertising and IMC.

Research interests

  • IMC integration and evaluation
  • IMC and advertising planning
  • Advertising management decisions
  • Regulation and ethics of the advertising industry
  • Advertising education
  • Social and digital media
  • Self regulation of advertising.

Current projects

  • Retesting the Elaboration Likelihood Model with Professor Don Schultz (Northwestern University), Professor Philip Kitchen (Hull University), Dr Park Beede, and Bill Proud (QUT).
  • Advertising agency branding with Dr Steven Pike (University of Queensland).
  • Impact of Australian tourism advertising in Chile and New Zealand with Dr Steven Pike (University of Queensland) and Dr Constanza Bianchi (QUT).

Future collaboration interests

Advertising or integrated marketing communications.

Awards

  • 2003: Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Business, QUT.
  • 2007: Best Published Paper, Faculty of Business, QUT.
  • 2008: Best Paper in Advertising/Marketing Communication Issues, ANZMAC.
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Gayle Kerr.

Teaching

Teaching interests

  • Copywriting
  • Advertising management
  • Advertising campaigns
  • Integrated marketing communication (IMC)
  • Contemporary issues in advertising.
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Gayle Kerr.

Publications


For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Supervision