MIQOLS' Staff
Executive Director
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M JOSEPH SIRGY is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979) and the Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor of Marketing Emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA) and Extraordinary Professor at the WorkWell Research Unit at North West University – Potchefstroom Campus (South Africa). He has published extensively in the area of marketing, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) in 1995, served as its Executive Director/Treasurer from 1995 to 2011, and as Development Co-Director (2011-present). In 1998 he received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS. In 2003, ISQOLS honored him as the Distinguished QOL Researcher for research excellence and a record of lifetime achievement in QOL research. He also served as President of the Academy of Marketing Science (2002-04) from which he received the Distinguished Fellow Award in the early 1990’s and the Harold Berkman Service Award in 2007 (lifetime achievement award for serving the marketing professoriate). In the early 2000’s, he helped co-found the Macromarketing Society and the Community Indicators Consortium and has served as a board member of these two professional associations. He co-founded the journal, Applied Research in Quality of Life, the official journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, in 2005; and he has served as co-founding editor (1995-present). He also served editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing (1995-2016). He received the Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Teaching Excellence Award/Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award and University Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2008. In 2010, ISQOLS honored him for excellence and lifetime service to the society. In 2010 he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Happiness Studies for his theory of the balanced life; in 2011 he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Travel Research for his goal theory of leisure travel satisfaction. In 2012 he was awarded the EuroMed Management Research Award for outstanding achievements and groundbreaking contributions to well-being and quality-of-life research. In 2019 the Macromarketing Society honored him with the Robert W. Nason Award for extraordinary and sustained contributions to the field of Macromarketing. He is currently serving as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Macromarketing (2020-present). He also was the editor of ISQOLS/Springer book series on International Handbooks in QOL (2008-15), Community QOL Indicators: Best Cases (2004-15), Applied Research in QOL: Best Practices (2008-12). He is currently the co-editor of Springer book series on Human Well-Being and Policy Making (2015-present). His most recent book is: Sirgy, M. Joseph (2020). Positive Balance: A Theory of Well-Being and Positive Mental Health. Dordrecht: Springer. |
Secretary/Treasurer
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PAMELA A. JACKSON retired from the Psychology Department at Radford University in 2021 (and is currently both Professor Emeritus and Research Faculty at Radford). She obtained her PhD in Behavioral and Neural Studies at the University of Kentucky in 1989. After which she completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Raymond Kesner at the University of Utah before joining the faculty at Radford. Her research interests include the neurobiology of learning and memory in humans and animals, the long-term behavioral and emotional effects of chronic exposure to cannabinoids during adolescence in rats, as well as housing factors that affect the quality of life in rats throughout the lifespan. Dr. Jackson presented research projects on quality of life of students during the pandemic, as well as personal interventions to improve quality of life. She and her co-authors have published on the neurobiology of subjective wellbeing, enhancing the wellbeing of healthcare service providers and their clients, and are currently working on a book exploring positive psychology interventions to enhance personal wellbeing. Dr. Jackson’s teaching interests include methods and statistics in psychology, physiological psychology, principles of learning, comparative cognition, and psychopharmacology, at the undergraduate and graduate level. She served as the senior director of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience vivarium during her entire tenure at Radford University. She has also served as the coordinator of the Master’s program in experimental psychology as well as on multiple university and department committees over the years. She has been a member of several professional organizations including Association for Psychological Science, Comparative Cognition Society, Psychonomic Society, Society for Neuroscience, and International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. Dr. Jackson can be reached at pjackson@radford.edu. |
Director of the Quality-of-Life Survey Program (Spanish Connections)
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JOSE DE JESUS GARCIA VEGA is currently consultant on the areas of human resources, well-being, quality of life, and happiness for communities, schools, and organizations. He has recently been Human Capital Manager for GT motors, CEO at Servicios Integrales Gama, and was a Researcher and a Professor of Economics at the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. At the Universidad de Monterrey he also served as the Director of the Center of Well-being Studies, doing research and consulting on the topics of happiness, subjective well-being, and the quality of life in Mexico and other countries. He has contributed to several books and articles on happiness, well-being and quality of life and he lead a group who developed a model for measuring quality of life which was applied in Mexico at the national, state and city levels. Dr. Garcia Vega was selected to participate on the project The World Book of Happiness and was part of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Applied Research in Quality of Life and the Social Indicators Research Journal. He was also part of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research and participated on book The Pursuit of Well-being: The Untold Global History as an editor and as an author. Mr. Garcia Vega graduated from Texas A &M University with a PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1995 and earlier earned an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas in Tampico, Mexico. Dr. Garcia Vega can be reached at: pepechuy13@gmail.com. |
IT Director
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DAVID A. WALKER graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) with a degree in computer science. He is responsible for managing and producing web content for the Management Institute for Quality-of-Life Studies, and for helping develop charts and figures for many of the books and publications MIQOLS is involved in writing. In addition, he has programmed the MIQOLS data exploration tools including the Quality-of-Life Indicators Toolbox and the Estes Index of Social Progress website. |
M. Joseph Sirgy, Ph.D.
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