Jamie Thompson
jamie thompson

Dr Jamie Thompson

Lecturer

 0131 455 4530

  J.Thompson@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Jamie is a Lecturer in Marketing at Edinburgh Napier University. He is the Research Lead for the Marketing Group, a committee member for The Business School's Research Degrees Committee and Research Integrity Committee. Jamie completed his PhD at Heriot-Watt University. Jamie's research focuses on research methods; consumer wellbeing; and consumer behaviour with innovative technology.

His ongoing projects are studying esports, gambling marketing, and the well-being of people in virtual environments. He has published in a number of internationally recognised journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, European Sport Management Quarterly, and International Journal of Hospitality Management.

Jamie is Programme Leader for Marketing with Digital Media and lectures on areas of social media marketing, marketing management in practice, and teaches research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • School Research Integrity Committee
  • School Research Degrees Committee
  • School Research and Innovation Committee

 

Editorial Activity

  • Editorial Board for Tourism Management Perspectives
  • Editorial Review Board for Qualitative Report

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Examiner, University of Bedfordshire, BSc (Hons) Advertising and Marketing Communication

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Most Innovative Paper in the Academy of Marketing Conference
  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
  • Finalist for Scopus’s Biannual Early Career Researcher UK Awards 2020

 

Media Activity

  • Author for Napier Blogs
  • Author at the World Economic Forum
  • Author at The Conversation

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • European Marketing Academy
  • Member of Academy of Marketing
  • Member of the British Sociological Association

 

Reviewing

  • Journal Reviewer: Current Issues in Tourism
  • Journal Reviewer: Event Management
  • Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Consumer Studies
  • Journal Reviewer: Tourism Management
  • Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Hospitality Management
  • Journal Reviewer: Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
  • Journal Reviewer: The Qualitative Report
  • Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Cultural Studies
  • Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
  • Journal Reviewer: Journal of Business Research
  • Journal Reviewer: European Sport Management Quarterly
  • Journal Reviewer: Tourism Management Perspectives
  • Journal Reviewer: The Service Industries Journal
  • Journal Reviewer: Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal Reviewer: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

 

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Enhancing graduate employability – exploring the influence of experiential simulation learning on life skill development

Journal Article
Scheuring, F., & Thompson, J. (in press)
Enhancing graduate employability – exploring the influence of experiential simulation learning on life skill development. Studies in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2334837
Skills and knowledge which increase the likelihood of university graduates finding employment is an increasingly important factor for higher education institutions. Even thoug...

Investigating the effects of service recovery strategies on consumer forgiveness and post-trust in the food delivery sector

Journal Article
Gannon, M., Taheri, B., Thompson, J., Rahimi, R., & Okumus, B. (2022)
Investigating the effects of service recovery strategies on consumer forgiveness and post-trust in the food delivery sector. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 107, Article 103341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103341
Underpinned by coping theory, this study investigates the extent to which service recovery strategies (e.g., firm-level apologies; compensation; feedback loops) stimulate cust...

Parasocial Relationships in CGI Influencer Marketing

Conference Proceeding
Thompson, J. (2022)
Parasocial Relationships in CGI Influencer Marketing. In 2022 Academy of Marketing Conference
Computer Generated Image (CGI) influencers have received no academic attention to-date. These influencers are developed by third parties such as Brud.fyi who generate the imag...

The role of Twitch betting on gambling behaviours amongst esport spectators

Conference Proceeding
Thompson, J. (2022)
The role of Twitch betting on gambling behaviours amongst esport spectators. In Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy (EMAC) 2022
Online gamers can gamble non-monetary virtual points and tokens in exchange for rewards with monetary value. This paper sets out to test the antecedent factors influencing the...

A Guide To Abductive Thematic Analysis

Journal Article
Thompson, J. (2022)
A Guide To Abductive Thematic Analysis. Qualitative Report, 27(5), 1410-1421. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5340
Thematic analysis is an increasingly popular method for analysing qualitative data within the social sciences. Current guides for conducting thematic analysis promote the meth...

Developing esport tourism through fandom experience at in-person events

Journal Article
Thompson, J., Taheri, B., & Scheuring, F. (2022)
Developing esport tourism through fandom experience at in-person events. Tourism Management, 91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104531
Tourism research has yet to consider the growing esport sector. Through a mixed-method research design, we employ the theoretical lens of fandom to examine what online and exp...

Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability

Journal Article
Thompson, J. (2022)
Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(5), 779-791. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2021.1887824
Drawing upon research from six volunteer projects in Cambodia, this paper explores the volunteer host community as a ‘space’ that has its own rules and normalized ways of beha...

Generating Socially Responsible Events at Ski Resorts

Journal Article
Taheri, B., & Thompson, J. (2020)
Generating Socially Responsible Events at Ski Resorts. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102695
This study examines how ski resorts can manage events that are sustainable, while also balancing the needs of consumers and local workers. Using a mixed-method approach, quant...

Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism

Journal Article
Thompson, J., & Taheri, B. (2020)
Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 81, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.102848
This paper draws upon Bourdieusian literature to examine how capitals are exchanged between stakeholders in volunteer tourism settings. Through exploratory interviews at schoo...

Self-expression and play: can religious tourism be hedonistic?

Journal Article
Lochrie, S., Baxter, I. W. F., Collinson, E., Curran, R., Gannon, M. J., Taheri, B., …Yalinay, O. (2019)
Self-expression and play: can religious tourism be hedonistic?. Tourism Recreation Research, 44(1), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2018.1545825
Using data collected from 538 Iranian tourists undertaking the religious pilgrimage of Umrah (i.e., voluntary travel to the holy city of Mecca at any time throughout the year)...

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