Assistant Professor of Business
Kelly is a researcher and educator with interests in evolving marketing practice, marketer behaviour, and qualitative research methodologies. He holds a PhD from the University of Durham, where his research examined marketer identity in digital environments. His educational background also includes an MBA from the University of Essex and a BSc in Physiology from the University of Saskatchewan.
Kelly's professional experience spans over two decades, encompassing roles in publishing, marketing research, and business consulting at organizations such as Glacier Media, Rogers Media, United Grain Growers (Viterra Canada), and SEED Winnipeg, a community economic development NGO. He is also the co-founder of two community newspapers, as well as a microphone design and manufacturing company. Kelly has taught in areas such as entrepreneurship and small business management, global marketing, and digital marketing at Canadian Mennonite University and Durham University Business School.
His research focuses on marketer behaviour from a practice theoretical perspective, digital marketing, and multimodal discourse analysis. Kelly's approach aims to bridge academic research with industry practice. In his work, he strives to encourage critical thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration in business education. His goal is to contribute to the understanding of evolving marketing practices in the digital age from a critical perspective.
Marketing, Management and Organizations, Business Communication
PhD (Durham), MBA (Essex), BSc (Saskatchewan)
marketing; management and organizations; small business and entrepreneurship; business communication
Marketer behaviour; marketing management; multimodal discourse analysis
Current research:
Dueck, K. (In preparation). Figured worlds: introducing Holland's social practise theory of identity as a lens for studying marketer behaviour
Dueck, K. (In preparation). Identity production processes of kanban boards in marketing teams. This paper centers on a social practice analysis of how kanban boards produce the identity of the 'agile marketer' through a combination of semiotic resources, eligibility conditions and social practices
Dueck, K. (In preparation). Bridging marketer identities through collaborative work platforms: a Figured Worlds perspective. This paper involves a multimodal discourse analysis of the various ways in which marketers both work on and make use of identities within the spaces of authoring both provided, and limited, by a popular collaborative work platform
Dueck, K., Larsen, G. (In preparation). 'It's like dancing about architecture': multimodal strategies in the marketing of audio products by non-audio means
Founder of First Mover Research
Consulting projects for Glacier Farmmedia (Manitoba Cooperator, The Western Producer, Grainews) and others
Approved consultant for members of the Biosciences Association of Manitoba
Co-founder of The Leaf community newspaper, Winnipeg
Member of The Academy of Management (Critical Management Studies; Communication, Digital Technology and Organization divisions)
Co-founder of the Durham University Business School Qualitative Research Methods Community
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