Maria Piacentini Editor & Author

Susan Dunnett is Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh Business School, UK. Her research focuses on consumer culture, health and well-being and consumer vulnerability, with a particular focus on patient-led cancer support groups and the patient-as-consumer.

Kathy Hamilton is a Reader in Marketing at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. She is interested in interdisciplinary research and her work focuses on consumer vulnerability and poverty, and the role of community in contemporary culture.

Maria Piacentini is Professor of Consumer Research, and Director of the Centre for Consumption Insights at Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses on consumer vulnerability, and she is concerned with the strategies employed by consumers in difficult consumption contexts and situations.