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Biography
Dr Johra K Fatima is a Senior Lecturer in Canberra Business School. She holds a PhD from UNSW, Sydney. Her current research interests span around consumer psychology, consumer awareness, services relationship building, retail marketing and consumer emotion. Johra has published in various prestigious journals, including Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Journal of Strategic Marketing and Environmental Education Research. She regularly speaks in academic conferences and also an editor of the book titled, ‘Wilderness of Wildlife Tourism’. She received several Category 2 grants (Chief investigator in all projects). As a recognition of her research she has been awarded ‘Dean’s Award for Research Excellence’ in 2018, 2019 and 2021. Her expectations from future research students are that students will be willing to work hard and interested to solve complex quantitative models if they prefer Johra as a supervisor.
Research interests
Areas of research interests are:
-Service relationships (B2B or B2C)
-Retail marketing (Omnichannel, BOPS)
-Consumer psychology
-Emotional decision making in purchase
Student Projects Available
Email potential topic of your interest that suits with any of the following broad category,
- Service encounters in retail marketing
- Consumer awareness
- Consumer psychology
- Consumer emotion and emotional decision making in purchase
- Relationship building and maintainance (both B2B and B2C context)
- Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in relationship building, consumer awareness or service delivery
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Customer-employee rapport in services, University of New South Wales
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Exploring community awareness and engagement activities with ACT cultural heritage places using an AI-based storytelling approach
FATIMA, J. (CI), TEOH, M. (CoI), BAHMANNIA, S. (CoI) & IRELAND, T. (CoI)
30/10/25 → 30/10/26
Project: Research
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Empowering ACT's multicultural women entrepreneurs
FATIMA, J. (CI), BAHMANNIA, S. (CoI) & ASIF, S. (CoI)
31/03/25 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Reversing the cycle of distraction: A campaign awareness study
FATIMA, J. (CI), BAHMANNIA, S. (CoI), SUBRAMANIAN, R. (CoI) & van Boxtel, J. (CoI)
8/11/23 → 1/07/25
Project: Research
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Does it matter to have rapport and social interaction on a group tour?
Fatima, J. K., 2025, In: Journal of Vacation Marketing. 31, 3, p. 1-13 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rapport with a chatbot? The underlying role of anthropomorphism in socio-cognitive perceptions of rapport and e-word of mouth
Fatima, J., Khan, I., Bahmanni, S., Chatrath, S. K., Dale, N. F. & Johns, R., Mar 2024, In: Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 77, p. 1-10 10 p., 103666.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Omnichannel shopping habit development
Sharma, N., Fatima, J., Sharma, S. & Amin, S., Jul 2024, In: International Journal of Consumer Studies. 48, 4, p. 1-19 19 p., e13072.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Did eyes lie? Examining a hygiene message’s dominance in post-pandemic tourism advertising with an eye-tracking monitoring approach
FATIMA, J., Subramanian, R. & Bahmanni, S., 2025, In: Tourism and Hospitality Research. p. 1-13 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investigating the influence of perceived humanization of service encounters on value creation of chatbot-assisted services
KHAN, I., FATIMA, J., Bahmanni, S., CHATRATH, S. K., Dale, N. F. & JOHNS, R., 22 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Service Theory and Practice. 35, 1, p. 56-88 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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