Prof Bob Doherty

• Co-Investigator Quantitative Phase University of York, UK
• Email: bob.doherty@york.ac.uk

Bob Doherty is Professor of Marketing at The York Management School, University of York and principal investigator on a large 4-year interdisciplinary research programme (£3.4m) on food resilience titled ‘IKnowFood’, funded by the Global Food Security Fund. He has developed an institutional link with Chiang Mai University, through the Newton Fund Grant 'Pathways to transformation of small-scale agriculture in the Mekong Region'. In addition, he holds a number of institutional wide research positions including the University of York lead for N8 AgriFood and research theme leader for sustainable food in the York Environmental Sustainability Research Institute (YESI). Furthermore, he is a trustee of Fairtrade Foundation and a member of the university nominations committee.

Bob specialises in research on hybrid organisations namely the marketing and management aspects of fair trade organisations and social enterprises. Recently his research interests have developed to look at resilience in food systems, such as in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Bob is a member of the organising committees for both the International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) and the International Fair trade Symposium (FTIS) and has chaired and hosted both these conferences in recent times. Bob has recently been successful in becoming the Founder members Trustee nomination on the Fairtrade Foundation board, this is a huge honour for Bob who has been a practitioner, activist and researcher of Fair Trade for 20 years now. For the past 8- years he has been editor of the Emerald publishers Social Enterprise Journal and is also editorial board member of the Corporate Responsibility and Environmental management Journal (Wiley Publishers). Bob is also a regular reviewer for the Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Management Reviews and Organization Studies. Prior to moving into academia Bob spent nearly five years as Head of Sales and Marketing at the Fairtrade social enterprise, Divine Chocolate Ltd.

Bob is one of the Co-Investigators dealing with the quantitative research for the project.