About

Education

  • Ph.D. in Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.
  • M.A. in Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.
  • B.A. (Hons) in Marketing, The University of Stirling, UK.
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, PGCAP, Durham University, UK.

Research Areas

  • Knowledge-Behaviour Gap
  • Effective Message Construction for Behaviour Change
  • Information Processing & Persuasive Communication
  • Health Communication
  • Employee Pro-environmental Behaviour
  • Technology Adoption for Behaviour Change
  • Consumer Psychology
  • Social Marketing
  • Advertising

Professional Associations

  • American Marketing Association
  • Academy of Marketing Science
  • European Marketing Association
  • Transformative Consumer Research
  • American Academy of Advertising
  • European Social Marketing Association
  • International Communication Association
  • British Academy of Management

Biography

Danae Manika (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is Professor of Marketing & Business Education and Associate Head of Brunel Business School. Before joining Brunel University London, she was Professor of Marketing at Newcastle University Business School, where she led its London Campus as Academic Group Head and held the Deputy Director of Research role at Newcastle University Business School. Danae in the past has also held academic positions at Queen Mary University of London, Durham University and the University of Texas at Austin; and is currently Visiting Professor at Newcastle University and Queen Mary University of London, while previously she held a Visiting Research Scholar position at the Centre of Risk Management and Insurance Research at McCombs Business School, University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her academic career, Danae worked as an Account Planning Intern in advertising agencies such as Latinworks in Austin, TX, and DDB in New York. She obtained a Ph.D and a M.A. in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. Honours in Marketing from University of Stirling.

Danae’s recent research has been published in journals such as: Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Psychology and Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business Research, European Management Review, and International Business Review, amongst others. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Danae’s research focuses on effective message construction for behaviour change within the contexts of health, well-being and the environment. She is involved in various consultancies (e.g., Harrow Council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, RECOUP, Global Action Plan, Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition), and her research has been supported by £284,000+ of funding (e.g., CRUK, EPSRC/Innovate UK, RED, and Arrow/ERDF). Danae is Associate Editor (AE) for Business and Society and the Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, while in the past she was AE for the Journal of Marketing Management (2017-21). She is also currently on the Editorial Review Boards of: Journal of Business Ethics, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, and Journal of Marketing Management; with guest editor experience across multiple top journals. Danae also has experience as: funding reviewer for Cancer Research UK (2015-19); and track chair for the Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress Conference in 2023, the Transformative Consumer Research Conference in 2021, and the European Social Marketing Association Conference in 2016.