
Overview
Background
Dr Alison M Joubert is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and the Marketing Undergraduate Program Director at Adelaide Business School, University of Adelaide. Dr Joubert is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. She graduated from the University of Queensland with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), a Bachelor of Business Management in Marketing with First Class Honours. Key achievements in her research career include recognition by the RRBM Honor Roll in 2023, being awarded finalist/runner up for the 2025 AMA Robert Lusch Early Career Research Award, and winning the 2025 Academy of Marketing Conference Overall Best Paper, 2024 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing, 2023 ANZMAC CCT Track Best Paper, 2021 ANZMAC Layton Dissertation Award, 2020 Rama Krishna Sastry Pappu Memorial Prize for Research in Business in 2020, Highly Commended Paper in the 2019 Emerald Literati - JOSM Robert Johnston Awards, and Best Poster Award at the 2016 Consumer Culture Theory Conference. She has also published in journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Service Research, Marketing Theory and Journal of Service Management, and authored a number of manuscripts accepted in the annual Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conferences (ANZMAC), and Consumer Culture Theory Conferences. Dr Joubert has over ten years of experience teaching marketing and management courses; in the positions of tutor, associate lecturer, and lecturer and course coordinator. Of particular interest to her is digital marketing and services marketing. She has a proven ability to conduct qualitative marketing research in consumer and service research. Dr Joubert also has practical quantitative research experience and skills developed through lecturing and tutoring Business Research Methods, and supervising quantitative marketing honours and PhD students. She also has demonstrated commitment to leadership and service to the institution and the academy.
Availability
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Qualifications
- Bachelor of Business Management, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours), The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Changing the game: empowering marketers as agents of change for diversity
Burgess, Amelie Jay, Joubert, Alison M., Dolan, Rebecca and Wilkie, Dean C.H. (2025). Changing the game: empowering marketers as agents of change for diversity. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/0965254x.2025.2555231
2025
Journal Article
Degrowth and the future of marketing
Scaraboto, Daiane, Joubert, Alison M and Gonzalez-Arcos, Claudia (2025). Degrowth and the future of marketing. Marketing Theory. doi: 10.1177/14705931251352041
2023
Journal Article
Healing the digital divide with digital inclusion: enabling human capabilities
Fisk, Raymond P., Gallan, Andrew S., Joubert, Alison M., Beekhuyzen, Jenine, Cheung, Lilliemay and Russell-Bennett, Rebekah (2023). Healing the digital divide with digital inclusion: enabling human capabilities. Journal of Service Research, 26 (4), 542-559. doi: 10.1177/10946705221140148
2022
Journal Article
No More Plastic Bags: Overcoming Consumer Resistance to Sustainability Regulation
Joubert, Alison M., Gonzalez-Arcos, Claudia, Scaraboto, Daiane, Sandberg, Jorgen and Guesalaga, Rodrigo (2022). No More Plastic Bags: Overcoming Consumer Resistance to Sustainability Regulation. NIM Marketing Intelligence Review, 14 (1), 37-41. doi: 10.2478/nimmir-2022-0006
2021
Journal Article
“How do I carry all this now?”: understanding consumer resistance to sustainability interventions
Gonzalez-Arcos, Claudia, Joubert, Alison M., Scaraboto, Daiane, Guesalaga, Rodrigo and Sandberg, Jörgen (2021). “How do I carry all this now?”: understanding consumer resistance to sustainability interventions. Journal of Marketing, 85 (3), 44-61. doi: 10.1177/0022242921992052
2020
Other Outputs
Battles in contested markets: The processes of legitimation in the 'legal high' market
Joubert, Alison (2020). Battles in contested markets: The processes of legitimation in the 'legal high' market. PhD Thesis, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.140
2020
Book Chapter
Theorizing less visible forms of fandom : Practices, assemblages, liquidity, and other directions
Coffin, Jack and Joubert, Alison M. (2020). Theorizing less visible forms of fandom : Practices, assemblages, liquidity, and other directions. Handbook of Research on the Impact of Fandom in Society and Consumerism. (pp. 211-233) edited by Cheng Lu Wang. Hershey, United States: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1048-3.ch011
2019
Journal Article
Four fanatical friends and other alliterative allegories
Joubert, Alison M. and Coffin, Jack (2019). Four fanatical friends and other alliterative allegories. Marketing Theory, 20 (2), 147059311989776-201. doi: 10.1177/1470593119897760
2019
Conference Publication
From Banning the Bag to Saving the Turtles: Colliding Logics and Multi-Level Changes in Markets
Scaraboto, Daiane, Joubert, Alison and Gonzalez-Arcos, Claudia (2019). From Banning the Bag to Saving the Turtles: Colliding Logics and Multi-Level Changes in Markets. Bringing Institutional Theory to Marketing Conference, Paris, France, 2019.
2018
Journal Article
Design for service inclusion: creating inclusive service systems by 2050
Fisk, Raymond P., Dean, Alison M., Alkire (née Nasr), Linda, Joubert, Alison, Previte, Josephine, Robertson, Nichola and Rosenbaum, Mark Scott (2018). Design for service inclusion: creating inclusive service systems by 2050. Journal of Service Management, 29 (5), 834-858. doi: 10.1108/JOSM-05-2018-0121
2017
Journal Article
Fantasy pitching
Faff, Robert, Ali, Searat, Atif, Muhammad, Brenner, Matt, Chowdhury, Hasibul, Cruddas, Leelyn, Joubert, Alison, Malik, Ihtisham, Mi, Lin, Nagar, Vinu, Pullen, Tim, Siegrist, Manuel, Smythe, Steve, Stephenson, Jeff, Zhang, Beile and Kun Zhang (2017). Fantasy pitching. Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, 16 (2), 360-379. doi: 10.24818/jamis.2017.02007
2013
Other Outputs
Examining young consumers’ motivations to engage in controversial leisure consumption: A study of the new synthetic recreational drugs in Australia
Joubert, Alison M. (2013). Examining young consumers’ motivations to engage in controversial leisure consumption: A study of the new synthetic recreational drugs in Australia. Honours Thesis, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland.
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