Rate My Professor Teresa Davis

Teresa Davis's research interests center on children as consumers and the sociology of consumption, with a focus on family consumption dynamics, food marketing, consumer vulnerability, and sustainability. Her work examines maternal representations in advertising, fatherhood images in ads, food well-being in contexts of poverty, and policy interventions such as salt reduction in packaged foods. Notable publications include 'Liminal (trans)formative spaces: A temporary escape from gendered expectations' (2023, Journal of Consumer Affairs), 'The knowing mother: Maternal knowledge and the reinforcement of gender roles in advertising' (2019, Journal of Consumer Culture), 'From overt provider to invisible presence: discursive shifts in advertising images of the father' (2014, Journal of Marketing Management), 'Families and food: exploring food well-being in poverty' (2018, European Journal of Marketing), and contributions to studies on lunch box contents and family meal times in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. Her scholarship, with 29 publications and over 500 citations, informs discussions on consumer behavior, gender roles in marketing, and public health policy implications.