Emma Surman is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor of Marketing at Birmingham Business School. Emma’s research and teaching falls broadly within the areas of consumer culture and the sociology of consumption. Recent projects have explored the links between the production and consumption of food including food swapping, communal eating, school gardens and community responses to food poverty. Emma has held grants from the EPRSC, ESRC and AHRC and has published in journals including Sociology, Sociological Review and the Journal of Business Research.   Her teaching takes a critical approach to understanding the role of marketing in society and what responsibility entails in the context of a business school, in part informed by a period spent as PRME champion for BBS.  She is one of the editors of Responsible Marketing for Well-being and Society: A Research Companion, published by Routledge