Dr Inma Rodríguez-Ardura is Professor of Digital Marketing at the UOC. She teaches digital marketing and e-commerce courses within the UOCs Faculty of Economics and Business, and is a professor of the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Business at the UOC. She is also the director of the UOCs Digital Business Research Group or DigiBiz, which is officially accredited as a Consolidated Research Group.
At the UOC, Dr Rodríguez-Ardura has coordinated the Marketing Area of the Faculty of Economics and Business; and created and been Director of the Masters Programme in Marketing Management, and the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Marketing and Market Research. Moreover, she has served as Director of the University Master's Programme, and the Doctoral Programme in the Information and Knowledge Society. Her work designing and developing courses in marketing has led her to coordinate and author over thirty-six didactic materials.
Dr Rodríguez-Ardura has completed visiting scholarships at the University of Oxford, as Visiting Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute; at Babson College, Boston, as Visiting Professor; and at the UOCs Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, as Resident Researcher. Furthermore, she has served as a faculty member at the University of Barcelona and as a part-time lecturer at the University of Miami Herbert Business School, and has taught masters courses and seminars at a number of other universities.
Dr Rodríguez-Arduras research interests lie in the areas of digital marketing channels and e-retailing, the connected consumer (immersive) experiences, and marketing for e-learning. She has carried out twenty-six research projects funded by Spanish, European, and international institutions; and has presented her research at over seventy-five scientific meetings and conferences. She has served as a co-editor for special issues on social e-commerce (International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing), qualitative methods for digital marketing (Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research), and consumer behaviour on digital markets (Sustainability); and has organised some international scientific meetings. She is currently Co-Editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research and Associate Editor of Behaviour & Information Technology, and seats on the editorial board of Sustainability.
Dr Rodríguez-Arduras research has appeared in numerous impact journals including Behaviour & Information Technology, British Journal of Educational Technology, Computers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Frontiers in Psychology, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Information and Management, Information Society, Information Technology & People, Interactive Learning Environments, International Journal of Engineering Education, Internet Research, Profesional de la Información, the South African Journal of Business Management, Sustainability, and Telematics and Informatics.
She has authored the books Marketing digital y comercio electrónico (Pirámide), Marketing.com y comercio electrónico en la sociedad de la información (Pirámide & Esic), and El marketing y el éxito en la empresa (Pirámide); and has edited Principios y estrategias de marketing (Editorial UOC), and Estrategias y técnicas de comunicación: una visión integrada en el marketing (Editorial UOC). Moreover, she has co-edited Impact of mobile services on business development and e-commerce (IGI Global), and co-authored scores of research books and textbooks.
Additionally, Dr. Rodríguez-Arduras activity has been awarded an official accreditation as Full Professor, four merits in teaching and one merit in research all by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency, in Spain. She has received a number of awards and grants including the best paper award by the International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour; the Complutense University of Madrids Grant for Scholars at Spanish Universities for Harvard CEPSA and ICO Foundations Chairs at RCC-Harvard University; and the José Castillejo Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education.
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