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Institute for Social Marketing

The Institute for Social Marketing (ISM), which is supported through a partnership of The Open University (OU) and Stirling University, is concerned with the study and dissemination of social marketing theory and practice. ISM is a highly successful self-funded academic research unit with over twenty-five years’ experience in delivering research and teaching. The Institute’s activities involve using social marketing principles to develop and evaluate interventions for changing behaviour. ISM is also concerned with the impact of public policy on health and social welfare and the effects of commercial marketing on health and behaviour.  There are currently a number of joint research and writing projects between the Institute and the Marketing and Strategy Research Unit (MSRU) of the OU Business School. Current projects include exploring cancer awareness; tobacco cessation and control; drug prevention and education; and the impact of alcohol marketing on youth drinking.

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News

15 May 2012

OU launches PG certificate in IT service management

A collaboration between The Open University and Global Knowledge, a worldwide leader in IT and business skills training, has launched a new Postgraduate Certificate (PGC) for IT Service Managers(ITSM).The ...

10 May 2012

The Talent Management Summit 2012

If you need to find new ways to develop your people, have the right executive talent in place, unlock skills and improve your organisational capability and performance then join the strategic event for global HR and ...

3 May 2012

Taking Responsibility conference to expose the dark side of marketing

Professor Gerard Hastings, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing, Stirling and the Open University, will be calling for urgent social change at a one-day Taking Responsibility conference at The Open University ...


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