Dr Preye Worlu

My profile

Biography

I am a lecturer in Marketing, Consumer behaviour and Consumer Psychology. I attained my PhD in Marketing from Alliance Manchester Business School where I explored black female empowerment through consumption.

Prior to joining Manchester Metropolitan University I have spent several years working in marketing for an engineering consultancy operating in the West African market (Nigeria) with a portfolio of Oil and Gas clients such as Shell, Seplat, Crestech, NLNG, Total and Worley Parsons to mention but a few.  After several years in the engineering sector, I ventured into owning and running a bespoke cake design company: Sweet Bakeology and have now returned back to academia with a keen passion in consumer behaviour.

"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep getting up"
Rocky Balboa

Projects

Currently researching Ethnoconsumerism- Consumption Practices of Black African Families in Britain & Consuming Motherhood

Teaching

Undergraduate

L4 Consumer Psychology (Unit Leader)

L5 Consumption Behaviour (Tutor)

Postgraduate

L7 Applied Research Proposal (Unit Leader)

L7 Applied Research Project (Unit Leader)

Postgraduate and Apprentices

Pastoral

L5 Personal Tutor

Supervision

Postgraduate Supervision Topics

Impact of social media on the consumer decision making process

Retail atmospherics and consumer behaviour

Product Placement on OTTs

Research outputs

Research Interest: Consumer behaviour, Culture and Consumption, Ethnicity and Consumer Behaviour,  Race, Gender and Consumption, Consumption in Developing Economies- The African Context, African Retail Trends and Consumerism

Lindridge, Andrew M.; Penaloza, Lisa and Worlu, Onyipreye (2017). Agency and Empowerment in consumption in relation to a patriarchal bargain: the case of Nigerian immigrant women in the UK. European Journal of Marketing, 50(9/10) pp. 1652–1671