Professor Valentyna Melnyk
Professor
Masters in Business Economics听(Cum Laude),听Sumy State University, Ukraine (2000)
Business School
School of Marketing
Valentyna Melnyk (Ph.D., Tilburg University, the Netherlands) is Professor in Marketing and Deputy Head Research听 for the School of Marketing at 国民彩票.听
Her research tackles novel, society- and/or听managerially relevant problems in marketing in the domains of consumer behaviour, cross-cultural marketing, advertising, branding, as well as customer loyalty. Her expertise in different research methods allows her to investigate topics that would be hard听to study with a conventional听uni-method approach. For example, she investigated topics such as behavioral labeling, the effects of temperature on responses to emotional communication, consumer de-marketing and effects of loyalty programs termination on customer behavior. She uses experimental methods, field data and econometric techniques in her research to obtain actionable insights.
Her work has been published in several leading journals including Journal of Marketing, 听International Journal of Marketing Research,听European Journal of Marketing, Marketing Letters and Journal of Business Research.听She won the prestigious international Emerald Literati Award for Excellence (for Outstanding Research).
She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM) and reviews for other prestigious journals, including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, IJRM,听European Journal of Marketing.
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E-mail
Location
Quad 3047
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Valentyna Melnyk won two prestigious external grants from German Research Foundation (DFG).
Both are highly competitive research grants on the topic of 鈥淢arketing of Hedonic Media Products in the Context of Digital Social Media,鈥 (# 1452) sponsored by German Research Foundation.听
听2014:听 1.5 million EURO (around 2.4 million AUD)
2017:听 2.5 million EURO (around 4.0 million AUD). We have received this second grant due to the extremely positive feedback on our research output from the first grant.
She acts as both an International Research Fellow as well as junior staff mentor on the grant. She is collaborating with colleagues from the University of Hamburg, the University of M眉nster, the University of Cologne, and the K眉hne Logistics University.
She has also attracted a number of smaller internal contestable research funds.
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2023 |
Finalist for the Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award for 2022, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science |
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2022 |
Research Excellence Award (Level E), Business School, 国民彩票 |
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2021 听 |
Research Highly Commended Excellence Award, 国民彩票 |
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2019 |
Invited Guest Speaker to Monash University Research Camp in Marketing, Feb 9-10, Monash University, Australia Invited presentation to WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria) |
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2018 |
Finalist for 2017 International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM) Best Article Award International Fellow on German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Unit Grant #1452 鈥淢arketing of Hedonic Media Products in the Age of Digital Social Media.鈥 I am an International Research Fellow as well as mentor of junior staff on the grant. |
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2017 |
Keynote Speaker to the Research Group on Social Media and Marketing, July 14, University of Hamburg, Germany. Invited presentation to University of Zurich, June 27-30, Switzerland Invited presentation to UTS Business School, Feb 20-25, UTS, Australia Invited Guest Speaker to Monash University Research Camp in Marketing, Feb 9-10, Monash University, Australia |
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2016 听 |
Emerald Literati Award for Excellence (in the Outstanding Research category) for 鈥淓ffects of Introducing and Terminating a Loyalty Program: The Role of Monetary and Non-Monetary Rewards,鈥 European Journal of Marketing Keynote Speaker to the Research Group on Social Media and Marketing, July 21, University of Hamburg, Germany Invited Guest Speaker to University of Queensland Business School鈥檚 Marketing Summit, May 19-20, Brisbane, Australia Finalist for Massey University Students鈥 Association Lecturer of the Year (LOTY) award (2013-2016) |
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2015 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 |
Best Paper Award in Buyer Behaviour track for 鈥淭he 鈥楳ystery effect鈥: The Effectiveness of Fantasy Themes on Food Labels, 听co-authored by David Jaud, Valentyna Melnyk, and Jan Landwehr, Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy, Sydney, Nov 30-Dec 2 Invited Guest Speaker to Monash University Inaugural Research Camp in Marketing, Feb 25-27, Monash University, Australia Invited presentation to Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) |
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2014 听 |
Winner of the Research Translation Competition Award, for academic research with best practical implications for companies, Massey Business School Selected as nr. 1 of the Scholarly Insights into Branding for Marketers and Academics, by the American Marketing Association (AMA) and the Marketing Science Institute, Oct. 2014 鈥 for 鈥淭he Double-edged Sword of Foreign Brand Names for Companies from Emerging Countries,鈥 Journal of Marketing Invited Guest Speaker to WU University, Vienna, Austria, research camp, June 23 Best Paper Award for 鈥淭he Battle of the Sexes: How Gender Stereotypes Influences Brand Perception,鈥 International Conference on Behavioural, Cognitive & Psychological Science, London, UK |
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2013 听 |
Best Overall Conference Paper Award (out of over 400 papers) and Best Paper Award in Marketing and Communications Track for 鈥淭he Temperature Crossover in Advertising 鈥 How Physical Temperature Influences Consumers鈥 Emotional Responses to Advertising,鈥 Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy, Auckland, December 2-6 Scientific Award 2013 of the German Marketing Association (Wissenschaftspreis des Deutschen Marketing-Verbandes) for the best doctoral thesis for my PhD student Dr Kristina Klein (co-supervised with Prof V枚lckner) |
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2011 |
Finalist for the 2011 Donald R. Lehmann Award, American Marketing Association. This award is given each year to the best dissertation-based research paper published in the Journal of Marketing or the Journal of Marketing Research, during the two years prior to the year of award. Both journals are in the top-3 journals in marketing, which makes this award one of the most prestigious awards world-wide |
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2008,2010, 2012 |
Invited member of Australian National University (ANU) Research Camp |
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2006 |
Finalist for the SAP-PIM Marketing Science for the best dissertation award. This annual award is for the best dissertation written in Marketing at leading universities in the Netherlands and Belgium. My thesis 鈥淐reating Effective loyalty programs Knowing what (Wo-) Men Want鈥 (defended on December 19th, 2005) was one of the three finalists among a set of over fifty dissertations in marketing and related disciplines |
My Teaching
国民彩票 (2018- present)
- Consumer Behaviour (undergraduate students)
- Advanced Consumer Behaviour (PhD Seminar)
- Marketing Communication and Promotion (postgraduate students)
- Experimental Methodology (PhD seminar)
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Massey University (2013 鈥 2018):
- Consumer Behaviour (undergraduate students)
- Advanced Consumer Behaviour (postgraduate students)
- Advanced Marketing Theory and Models (postgraduate students)
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Waikato Management School (2006-2013):
- International Marketing seminars (postgraduate students)
- Consumer Behaviour (undergraduate students)
- Advanced Advertising Strategy seminars (postgraduate students)
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VU University, Amsterdam (2005-2006):
- Consumer Marketing (postgraduate students)
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