Dr Marcia Christina Ferreira
Email
christina.ferreira@essex.ac.ukTelephone
+44 (0) 1206 876335
Location
EBS.3.35, Colchester Campus
Academic support hours
Wednesdays 4.00–5.00 pm and Thursdays 3.30–5.30 pm. Please follow the link to book your appointment: https://christina.chat/academic-support-hours
Biography
Marcia Christina Ferreira is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing & Consumer Research at Essex Business School. She holds a PhD in Management from Royal Holloway, University of London. She started working at the University of Essex in January 2023. Before this position, Christina was a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Operations at Brunel Business School and a Lecturer in Marketing at Liverpool Business School. She brings extensive industry experience in marketing communications, having worked for both multinational and local companies in South America. Her research interests lie at the intersection of creativity, materiality, and media technologies, following a research agenda that explores social, material, and digital contexts of consumption, calling into question consumers’ roles in shaping contemporary market forms and practices. Christina’s work has been published in leading international journals, handbooks, and book collections, as well as presented at prestigious academic conferences. Christina is also a founding member of The Scrutinizers, a peer-learning group formed by international academics dispersed across five continents. The group recently published their research on academic isolation in a world-leading journal and is currently delivering professional development workshops to help early-career researchers overcome integration barriers in their research field.
Qualifications
PhD Management Royal Holloway University of London, (2016)
Appointments
University of Essex
Senior Lecture, Essex Business School, University of Essex (16/1/2023 - present)
Other academic
Employability Development Directors (Management and Marketing), Essex Business School, University of Essex (1/9/2024 - present)
