Dr Freddie Fahad
Senior Lecturer
Department: Marketing and Enterprise
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 5866
- E-mail: G.Fahad@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
PhD (Marketing), MSc (Marketing), DMS (CNAA)
Research Interests
- Annual Doctoral Conference, London Business School (1982).
- Key Report: 'The Modulating Effect of Music and Colour on the Reception of Television Commercials', Strathclyde University Funded Research (1982-84).
- Strathclyde University representative: Debates on the Future of the Business (1985).
- Doctoral degree and problems relating to Supervision, Glasgow University 'The Use of Group Discussions by First Time Users', published) Annual Marketing Education Group Conference, Plymouth Polytechnic (1986).
- Participated in the American Marketing Association's Annual Educators' Conference, Chicago (1986).
- 'Group Discussions: A Misunderstood Technique', Journal of Marketing Management, Vol 1 (32), pp 315-327 (1986).
- 'The Focus Group: A Controversial Research Technique' (1990).
- Graduate Management Research, Vol 4 (3), pp 34-51 (1990).
- Attended a MEG conference on the teaching of Small Firm Marketing and was appointed a committee member asked to examine the way forward (1996).
- With-Paddison A- "Pedagogical Issues in the Teaching of Small Firm Marketing", Academy of Marketing Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 8-10 July 1997, pp1315-1318 (1997).
- With-Turnbull, A, Williams, S, Paddison, A-rdquo;Entrepreneurship-Can it be Taught? A Comparative study of student attitudes and intentions towards self-employmentrdquo;, Marketing/Entrepreneurship Interface Research Symposium, Nene College, 8-9 January 1998 (1998).
- With-Paddison, A, and Barn, S-"Support Agencies and Ethnic Minorities: A preliminary investigation", The 1998 Small Business and Enterprise Development Conference, University of Leeds, 30-31 March 1998, PP154-160 (1998).
Research Supervision:
- Supervised several students as first and second supervisor for the degrees of MPhil and PhD at Strathclyde (1983-87).
- Idriss Koroma, Acted as Director of Studies "A comparative study of the tourism industry of the Gambia and Sierra Leone", Degree of PhD awarded in 1991 (1987-90).
- Acted as second supervisor to several students being supervised by other Marketing colleagues (1989-99).
- Nabeel Al-Shamry, Acted as Director of Studies "The marketing problems and opportunities of the agricultural sector in the UAE", Degree of MPhil awarded in 1994 (1992-93).
- Effiong Akpan, Acted as Director of Studies "Organisation Buying Behaviour in Metropolitan Local Authorities" Degree of PhD Awarded in 2000 (1994-99).
- Lawrence Akwetey, Acted first as second supervisor and now as Director of Studies "Trade Promotion in Economic Development: A study of Ghana within ECOWAS", Viva expected at end of December 2001 for PhD award (1996-
Teaching Interests
- International Marketing
- The Use of Marketing in the Small Firm
- Ethnic Minority Businesses
Biography
PhD (Marketing) - Strathclyde University
MSc (Marketing) - Strathclyde University
DMS (CNAA) - Brighton University (formerly Polytechnic)
Media Experience:
Television, Middle East Broadcasting Corporation, London Panellist and contributor to discussions on the Middle East and the relationship between the Arabs and the West (1997-2000).
Consultancy Activity:
- Acted as a consultant and adviser to a number of small businesses in West Africa specifically in Sierra Leone and Nigeria (1982-85).
- Acted as a consultant to a number of ethnic businesses in Glasgow (1983-87).
- Member of Strathclyde University academic team, sponsored by the Scottish Development Agency, to provide advice to small businesses, 'The East Kilbride Project', Scotland (1985-87).
- A comparison of Scottish and English Students to the teaching of Entrepreneurship (1997-99).
- Together with CEEDR examined the Diverse needs of Ethnic Businesses in North London for Haringey Council (1998-2000).
- Range of consultancies including use of marketing by SMEs. Adviser to ethnic Businesses for a number of Boroughs in London. Several consultancy research projects have been undertaken for Haringey Council (1991 to Present).



