• Shifting sands: Actor role and identity reconfigurations in service systems 

  Gummerus, Johanna; O'Loughlin, Deirdre; Kelleher, Carol; Peñaloza, Lisa (Elsevier Inc., 2021-08-20)

  Building on previous actor-to-actor perspectives in service systems, this study mapped the dialectic trajectory of actor role and identity transitions in the context of family caregiving. The study employed the theoretical ...
• Deconstructing consumer discipline How self-management is experienced in the marketplace 

  Cronin, James Martin; McCarthy, Mary; Delaney, Mary (Emerald, 2015-11-09)

  Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to build an understanding of what we term "consumer discipline" by unpacking the practices and strategies by which people manage and exert control over what they consume. This is ...
• Healthy eating habit: A role for goals, identity, and self-control? 

  McCarthy, Mary; Collins, Alan M.; Flaherty, Sarah Jane; McCarthy, Sinead N. (Wiley, 2017-08-05)

  Supporting healthier eating habits is crucial for improving population health outcomes. Underpinning everyday eating patterns are recurring actions that may lead to positive or negative health outcomes depending on the ...
• A different perspective on consumer engagement: exploring the experience of using health apps to support healthier food purchasing 

  Flaherty, Sarah Jane; McCarthy, Mary; Collins, Alan M.; McAuliffe, Fionnuala M. (Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-18)

  Healthy food purchasing behaviour may be facilitated through the use of health apps if used for the necessary time period. However, little is known on the factors that influence the user experience and facilitate or impede ...
• A phenomenological exploration of change towards healthier food purchasing behaviour in women from a lower socioeconomic background using a health app 

  Flaherty, Sarah Jane; McCarthy, Mary; Collins, Alan M.; McCafferty, Claire; McAuliffe, Fionnuala M. (Elsevier, 2019-12-19)

  Food purchasing is dominated by routines and habits that may hamper the use of reflective decision-making and impede change. Disrupting existing behavioural patterns may address this challenge. Individuals from a lower ...

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