DrPaul Harrison

Dr Paul Harrison is a Senior Lecturer and the Unit Chair of Consumer Behaviour in the Department of Marketing in Deakin Business School. Paul's research is focused on emotional and rational behaviour, and how our biology and the environment interact to influence the way we make decisions. His work has been published in a wide range of international journals and conference proceedings and has informed policy and business practice in Australia and internationally.

Paul is a director of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), a member of VicHealth's Social Marketing Expert Panel and a member of the Essential Services Commission's Consumer Insights Panel. Paul is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He is currently working on international research projects with Yale University in the US, The Open University in the UK, and Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy. Paul also appears in the media discussing marketing and consumer issues and writes op. eds. for a range of newspapers and online sites including The Conversation.

Prior to joining academia, Paul was CEO of an international dance company, Padma Menon Dance Theatre, an administrator at the Melbourne Theatre Company and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, a principal baritone with the Victoria State Opera, and a Federal public servant working in the area of analytics, human resource management and recruitment.

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and his blog at [www.tribalinsight.com](http://www.tribalinsight.com/).