Associate ProfessorJoya Kemper
Associate Professor
Management, Marketing and Tourism
- Associate ProfessorManagement, Marketing and Tourism
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Joya’s research interests span sustainable consumption and production, ethical and healthy consumption, behaviour change, and social and institutional transformation for sustainability. She focuses on sustainable marketing, marketing for good, circular economy behaviours, waste reduction, sociopolitical activism, and responsible consumption, generating insights relevant to policy, regulation, and organisational strategy.
Her work also examines sustainable and healthy eating, including meat reduction, alternative proteins, future foods, and food waste reduction, alongside broader themes of environmental behaviour change, systems‑level social change, and education for sustainable development. She is additionally interested in circular economy innovation, including plastics circularity, organic waste valorisation, and biocontrol and biotechnology solutions that support sustainable production systems and sector‑wide transitions.
GRANTS
- GRANTAdaptable phage solutions: an Aotearoa-NZ platform for precision biocontrol for primary industriesMinistry of Business, Innovation and Employment1 Oct 2023 - 30 Sep 2028
- GRANTWaste to Treasure: Using novel chemistry to valorise residual plant materialsMinistry for Business, Innovation and Employment1 Oct 2023 - 30 Sep 2028
- GRANTAre sustainable diets the key to a healthy future? An exploration of consumer insights in Aotearoa New ZealandFood Transitions 20501 Mar 2023 - 2 Mar 2026
- GRANTExploring stakeholder collaboration in a transition towards a circular economy for foodOECD Co-operative Research Programme15 Dec 2022 - 18 May 2023
- GRANTShaping a circular market system for plastics in New ZealandMinistry for Business, Innovation and Enployment1 Oct 2022 - 30 Sep 2027
- GRANTHealth Research Council1 Sep 2021 - 1 Sep 2024
- GRANTExploring the changes in sustainable and healthy food practices in response to COVID-19Worldwide Universities Network1 Feb 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
- GRANTICT in Precision Food Systems” International Technical MeetingMinistry of Business, Innovation & Employment1 Sep 2019 - 30 Nov 2021