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Robert Hamlin 2022 imageMA (Oxon), MBA (Indiana), PhD (Otago)

Senior Lecturer

Room 4.20 Otago Business School
Tel +64 3 479 8161
Email rob.hamlin@otago.ac.nz

Before joining the Department, Rob had experience in a wide variety of management positions in the agricultural and banking industries, both in the United Kingdom and United States.

He currently teaches and supervises in food marketing and product management, with a heavy emphasis on practical approaches to the problems that are encountered in these areas. He is also active in public good and environmental research in the food industry.

Rob is also a member of Food Waste Innovation, a University of Otago Research Theme which measures food waste, develops reduction strategies, applies innovative technology, and works to modify producer and consumer behaviour.

If you are a research student, Rob would be glad to hear from you if you are interested in the following areas:

  • Any aspect of food marketing and consumer behaviour
  • Package/food waste reduction
  • Public good food and dietary marketing
  • Historical, political and military marketing/diplomacy

Teaching responsibilities

Rob's teaching responsibilities include:

Rob also supervises MMart, MCom, DBA, and PhD students.

Office hours

Rob's Office Hours are:

Wednesday 2–3pm

Publications

Van Hau, P., Thyne, M., Robertson, K., & Hamlin, R. (2023). Consumers' purchase behaviour with regard to single-use packaging: A system change approach informing public policy. Proceedings of the Graduate Research Student Symposium. (pp. 14). Retrieved from https://www.otago.ac.nz/graduate-research

Hamlin, R. (2023). The hole in our entrepreneurial CB literature. In M. Thyne & S. Biggemann (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC): Marketing for Good. (pp. 306). [Abstract]

Hamlin, R. P., & McNeill, L. S. (2023). Marketing tactics for sustainable fashion and the circular economy: The impact of ethical labels on fast fashion choice. Sustainability, 15, 10331. doi: 10.3390/su151310331

Hamlin, R. (2022). The relative merits of observational and experimental research: Four key principles for optimising observational research designs. Nutrients, 14(21), 4649. doi: 10.3390/nu14214649

Hamlin, R. P., McNeill, L. S., & Sim, J. (2022). Food neophobia, food choice and the details of cultured meat acceptance. Meat Science, 194, 108964. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2022.108964

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