Interesting that EU leaders are considering a new fifth freedom of research, innovation and education in addition to the four freedoms of goods, capital, services and people developed since the 1980s. #research #EU #innovation

Early train from Portadown to Dublin. At University College Dublin today for launch of the Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems. Leading a Spoke project along with Prof Lynsey Hollywood 📝 and colleagues from UCC Ireland working with SMEs and market intelligence. #SME #smallbusiness #marketing

We were delighted to join co-applicants for the launch of the new Co-Centre for #SustainableFoodSystems by co-directors Profs Eileen Gibney University College Dublin UCDFood&Health Aedín Cassidy IGFS & louise dye Institute for Sustainable Food Can’t wait to get started on this exciting 6-year project.

Michael Dunlop wins Supersport to equal all-time TT record of his uncle Joey - that is some achievement by a genius on two wheels. #TT #Dunlop #IsleofMan

View from our garden room this evening of Newcastle and Dundrum Bay is spectacular ⛵🌊☀️ #MourneMountains #SouthDown

Been doing work with Bernard owner of Whitewater Brewery recently in the Market Intelligence Lab Ulster University Business School. Having identified millennials as an interesting segment, Bernard I am a millennial for research purposes this evening 🍺

Sharing market insights with Ian Miller from Milgro Ltd a small food producer this afternoon in the Market Intelligence Lab at Ulster University Business School - identified new consumer segments through high impact small business research. #research #marketing #smallbusiness #SME

We are looking forward to your submissions for our Marketing Theory special issue. We are interested in papers that focus on the adoption of alternative, qualitative methodologies that advance marketing theory or help us understand consumer phenomena in new ways.

Anthony Giddens was a key advisor to Labour last time they were in power. His work was also a key influence on a paper I published recently in Marketing Theory with Professor Mark Durkin #marketing #branding journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Sunday morning garden blues #MourneMountains #Newcastle

Stopped off in the hometown Portadown this evening. Always reassuringly familiar!

A whole day of teaching research methods today for summer degree bridging students. Quite a dry topic and don't have a banjo 🪕

Students doing key takeaways from a full day of research methods - 'let me out of here' likely to be the core one 😂

Coca-Cola consistently ploughs around 11% of its revenues into marketing its products. It has an annual advertising budget of around $4.5bn of which digital channels now account for around 60% of this budget. #digital #marketing #advertising

Still the culinary masterpiece of all time. A Portadown special - Chicken Ball Supper from the Mandarin House. Wow 😲

Small businesses are eager to embrace digital technology, but a skills and confidence gap holds them back. At the #DarganForum we were delighted to showcase the Enterprise Nation supports that are empowering small businesses to thrive in a digital world. Dargan Institute clg, Dún Laoghaire Emma Jones

The hard yards in developing academic papers. There is no other way. And the capacity to 'fail better' through each disappointing rejection. #academia #research

Dundrum Inner Bay today #MourneMountains

Annalong #MourneMountains

Lavery's Bar at Chapel Hill in Lisburn. I believe it is now closed 😞 Graham Brownlow