{"id":5541,"date":"2023-04-11T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2023-04-11T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:44:58","slug":"media-associate-professor-deanna-grant-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2023\/04\/11\/media-associate-professor-deanna-grant-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Associate Professor Deanna Grant-Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Deanna Grant-Smith has provided\u00a0 research commentary on an article that appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/from-avon-ladies-to-nutrition-clubs-how-much-do-you-really-earn-in-multi-level-marketing-20230324-p5cuyp.html\"><strong>&#8220;From Avon ladies to nutrition clubs:\u00a0 How much do you really earn in multi-level marketing?&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> (26 March 2023)<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses the surge of people moving into multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes during lockdown, however expert opinion warns against the &#8220;overpromise&#8221; on how much income can actually be earned.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Grant-Smith discusses her research that shows some of the reasons MLM schemes appeal to people, and how schemes market themselves to encourage people to join.<\/p>\n<p>Read the QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper on this topic\u00a0titled, <strong>Developing <\/strong><b>a profile<\/b><b style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"> of multi-level marketing consultants in Australia to support informed decisions to join <\/b>by<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"> Deanna Grant-Smith, Alicia Feldman, Bernd Irmer and Laura de Zwaan, published in February 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/research.qut.edu.au\/centre-for-justice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/304\/2022\/05\/Briefing-Paper-Series-Feb2022-Issue20-17022022.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more about Deanna&#8217;s research <a href=\"https:\/\/research.qut.edu.au\/centre-for-justice\/researcher-showcase\/associate-professor-deanna-grant-smith\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Deanna Grant-Smith has provided\u00a0 research commentary on an article that appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age titled, &#8220;From Avon ladies to nutrition clubs:\u00a0 How much do you really earn in multi-level marketing?&#8221; (26 March 2023) The article discusses the surge of people moving into multi-level<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":5544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9703],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-our-research"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}