Nathalia Tjandra
Nathalia Tjandra

Dr Nathalia Tjandra

Associate Professor

Biography

Nathalia is the Head of International and an Associate Professor in Marketing at Edinburgh Napier University Business School. She oversees the implementation of the University’s Internationalisation Strategy in the Business School, and develops an International and Global Online strategic direction for the School. She liaises with internal and external stakeholders and manages 25 TNE and Global Online programmes delivered globally.

She is a member of the Marketing subject group leadership team. The subject comprises of over 20 Marketing academics who are responsible for teaching, research and commercial activities in the UK, overseas and online. She is leading and involved in the development of the Marketing curriculum in the Business School for the UK, overseas and online deliveries. She successfully leads the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) accreditation excercise for all marketing programmes.

Nathalia is very passionate about teaching and learning in the higher education. She has been teaching Marketing since 2011. She became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in 2019. She is currently teaching Brand Management subject at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the UK, overseas and online. She supervises undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students.

She is an active researcher. Her areas of expertise are branding, business-to-business marketing, marketing ethics and sustainability. She has been publishing in international peer-reviewed journals and presenting at international conferences. She has won a number of research awards including Academy of Marketing Best Paper in Marketing Ethics track (2015), Best Paper in Events and Sports Marketing track (2015) and Best Paper in Brand, Identity and Corporate Reputation track (2014). She has gained both internal and external funding to conduct international research in the UK, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

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Events

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Chair of Marketing Professional Advisory Group
  • Invited Member of Medinge Group
  • Member of the Business School Accreditation Commitee
  • Member of the Business School Provision Committee
  • Leader of The Indonesian Society Scotland (TISS) for Edinburgh and Fife
  • Chair of International Operations Group (The Business School)
  • Member of Collaborative Partnership Committee
  • Advisory Group Member and Mentor Marketing Society Scotland (Student Marketing Society stream)
  • Founder and co-ordinator of Early Career Researcher Network
  • Member of Research and Innovation Committee
  • Deputy Leader for Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Research Cluster
  • Academic Conduct Officer

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Chair of 17th Global Brand Conference (22 - 24 April 2024)

 

Editorial Activity

  • Journal of Brand Management (2*) on special issue Conscientious Brands: Making Sustainability and Responsibility Work
  • Transnational Marketing Journal

 

External Examining/Validations

  • Hong Kong Baptist University School of Continuing Education
  • University of Hertfordshire for INTI Malaysia
  • University of Staffordshire for programes in Asia Pacific Institution of Information Technology (APIIT) in Malaysia and Sri Lanka

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy

 

Invited Speaker

  • Branding Masterclass (Edinburgh Napier University International Partners Conference, Bentota, Sri Lanka)
  • Invited speaker: Conscientious brands in higher education (Medinge Group Internal Meeting, Oslo, Norway)
  • Invited speaker: Navigating Asia: Using data and market intelligence for prioritation in the Asian Tiger Economies (CASE Europe Annual Conference 2023, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  • Invited speaker: Beyond sustainability: An introduction to conscientious brands (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
  • Invited speaker: Beyond sustainability: An introduction to conscientious brands (THM Giessen, Germany)
  • Invited speaker: Beyond sustainability: An introduction to brands with a conscience (Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Surabaya, Indonesia)
  • Invited expert: Digital Tobacco Marketing Control: The global perspective (Aliansi Jurnalis Independen [Alliance of Independent Journalist], Indonesia)
  • Invited speaker: Building brand resilience in the digital era (BINUS University, Jakarta, Indonesia)
  • Invited expert: Digital branding in 2021 (IGB Media, Indonesia)
  • Invited speaker: Conscientious brands – Insight from the marketing agencies (Medinge Group, Online)
  • Invited panellist: International student mobility in a changing world (Chartered Association of Business Schools Conference, London, United Kingdom)
  • Invited speaker: Digital Branding (INTI College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
  • Invited speaker: Brand strategy for startups (BINUS University, Indonesia)
  • Public lecture on World’s Free Tobacco Day: Tobacco marketing ethics (University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
  • Invited speaker: Brand failure, damage and resurrection (University of Ciputra, Surabaya, Indonesia)
  • Invited speaker: Brand failure, damage and resurrection (Universitas Widya Mandala Surabaya, Indonesia)
  • Invited speaker: Branding for start-up businesses (University of Ciputra, Surabaya, Indonesia)
  • Invited speaker: On the road to brand leadership: Co-creating brand value with customers and other stakeholders (Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Surabaya, Indonesia)

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Certified Manager of Business Educator
  • Alumnae of Aurora Leadership Foundation

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Social Media and Body Image: A Social Marketing Training Workshop

 

Reviewing

  • European Business Review
  • Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal
  • Journal of Business to Business Marketing
  • Journal Brand Management
  • International Journal of Emerging Markets
  • Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • Journal of Product and Brand Management
  • Transnational Marketing Journal

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Professor Changchun Guanghua University China
  • Visiting Professor at Ciputra University Indonesia

 

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Exploring the influence of country-of-origin information to Generation Ys' perception towards international fashion brands.

Conference Proceeding
Tjandra, N. C., Osei, C., Ensor, J. & Omar, M. (2012)
Exploring the influence of country-of-origin information to Generation Ys' perception towards international fashion brands
The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore whether and how country-of-origin information influences the perception of Generation Ys from twenty one countries towards ...

"You don't buy clothes-you buy an identity" - the correlation between fashion brand and country-of-origin.

Conference Proceeding
Tjandra, N. C., Omar, M. & Williams, J. (2010)
"You don't buy clothes-you buy an identity" - the correlation between fashion brand and country-of-origin. ISBN 978-0-9561122-34
This paper is part of a bigger qualitative study about the perception of country-of-origin from consumers in different countries. The purpose of this paper is to identify and ...

Older and fitter: raising the older person's agenda -issue for consideration for supermarkets and food retailers.

Conference Proceeding
Omar, M., Tjandra, N. C. & Ensor, J. (2012)
Older and fitter: raising the older person's agenda -issue for consideration for supermarkets and food retailers
The global ageing population is well reported within the media and academia (Szmigin & Carrigan, 2001). An ageing population will bring challenges with ramifications on societ...

How should co-creation be adopted triadic in a triadic relationship in order to develop a strong brand?

Conference Proceeding
Tjandra, N. C., Thomson, J. R. & Ensor, J. (2011)
How should co-creation be adopted triadic in a triadic relationship in order to develop a strong brand?. In Special Issue: Academy of Marketing Conference 2012 - Marketing: Catching the Technology Wave

On the road to developing a strong brand: Developing the Independent Financial Advisers’ brand equity pyramid.

Conference Proceeding
Tjandra, N. C., Ensor, J. & Thomson, J. R. (2012)
On the road to developing a strong brand: Developing the Independent Financial Advisers’ brand equity pyramid

Branding Africa: the way forward.

Conference Proceeding
Ossei, C., Tjandra, N. C., Omar, M. & Ensor, J. (2012)
Branding Africa: the way forward
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Africa has been branded, and to propose strategies to re-brand Africa the as an attractive destination for both forei...

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