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Lancaster University Management School is excited to invite you to our Inaugural Lecture Series, a special set of public lectures celebrating the careers of our newest Professors.

Each lecture features a brief presentation by one of our Professors, offering an overview of their research and a glimpse into their personal academic journey.

This lecture is hybrid, so you can attend in person or online via MS Teams. Each session lasts approximately 60 minutes, including time for both the presentation and audience Q&A.

An inaugural lecture is a distinguished academic event, marking a colleague’s promotion to professorship—a significant milestone in their career. These lectures offer a unique opportunity for our newly appointed Professors to share their pioneering research, highlight achievements in research, innovation, engagement, and teaching, and showcase the societal impact of their work.

The series is free and open to everyone. Whether you are an expert in the field or simply curious, we warmly welcome all staff, students, their guests, and members of the local community to join us in celebrating these academic milestones.

Professor Jonathan Ivy

Professor Jonathan Ivy is Professor in Marketing at Lancaster University Management School.

Jonathan’s research focuses on marketing in higher education, particularly student choice and the factors that influence prospective students’ decisions. He is also interested in well-being, resilience, leaveism and empathy within UK policing, exploring how these issues affect the experiences and working lives of police officers. Extensive engagement with the Lancashire and the South Yorkshire Constabulary established new policies in supporting police office wellbeing in England and Wales.

His research draws on quantitative approaches, with particular expertise in multivariate analysis. His work brings together marketing, education and organisational research to explore how people make choices and how organisations can better understand and support the communities they serve and the staff they they employ.

Jonathan has extensive teaching experience across undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes, covering areas including marketing management, market research, international marketing, marketing communications, research methods and quantitative methods. But, its trans-national education that has dominated Jonathan’s career in higher education, having held posts as LUMS Academic Director at GD Goenka (Indian), Lancaster University’s Interim Academic Dean in Sunway (Malaysia) and Lancaster University, Leipzig (German) and will be leaving shortly to take up the Interim Academic Dean position at Lancaster University, Ghana.

Join us for Jonathan's inaugural lecture to hear more about his academic journey and the questions that have shaped his work.