Dr. Constance Hill

email: connie@uow.edu.au

Constance has over 15 years experience in the Advertising industry at a senior account management level. She was an account executive with J. Walter Thompson in the USA and the UK on the Ford account. In Australia, she has been Promotions Manager at News Limited, Account Manager on the Simpson account with Young and Rubicam in Adelaide and Account Director on the Kodak and Lever and Kitchen accounts with J.Walter Thompson in Sydney.

Constance has lectured in marketing at the University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, and Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. She is presently a lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Department of Marketing.

Her PhD thesis involved a cross-cultural analysis on gift-giving behaviour and childhood consumer socialisation. Her findings indicated that gifts exchanged in the family make a big impact on the way in which children are socialised as consumers. Besides having conducted further research in gift-giving behaviour, Constance has also done research on overseas students in Australia and is currently undertaking research on the consumer behavior topic of Voluntary Simplicity with a publication forthcoming in Psychology and Marketing. Her research into Voluntary Simplicity examines the way in which a growing number of people have decided to live a simple lifestyle in preference to one that is based on materialism.