BA (Hons) Politics and Philosophy, University of York
MBA, University of Strathclyde

Mike Pretious lectures in marketing, retailing and consumer studies. Prior to becoming an academic, Mike worked primarily in the retail clothing sector and held buying roles for a number of major companies, including Selfridges, Mothercare and the Burton Group (now Arcadia).

Mike has written academic papers and has published in the trade and popular press on retail and consumer issues. He currently has a particular interest in ethical supply chain issues and in social enterprise.

Mike has substantial consultancy and short-course experience with a variety of clients. Outside his work at QMU, he is an adviser with the Prince’s Youth Business Trust and is working with a social enterprise in Nepal which hopes to develop fair trade links with UK organisations.

Pretious, Mike and Ritchie, Jill, Relationships In A Complex Supply Chain: The Growing, Exporting, Importing And Retailing Of Fresh Vegetables, The Retailing Book , ed. Paul Freathy, Pearson Education.
Pretious, M. and Love, M, Sourcing Ethics And The Global Market: The Case Of The Uk Retail Clothing Sector Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades , EAERCD, Lund, June 2005.
Analysis of Merchandising Techniques , Edinburgh Bicycle CoOperative, July 2004
Pretious, Mike, The Ethics of Retail Buying, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades , EAERCD, Paris, June 2003.
Pretious, Mike and Watson, Adrian, Community Anti- Retail Crime Partnerships: A Review of Best Practice Proceedings of  3 rd CIRM Conference: Neighbourhood Retailing: Policy, People and Partnerships , Manchester, September 2003.
Strategy Facilitator , DDS Medicines, August- September 2003
Anti- Business Crime Partnerships with Scottish Business Crime Centre, 2002 to date.
Pretious, Mike and Howe, Stewart, C J Lang and Son Ltd: A Wholesale Evolution , Management Case Quarterly , Vol. 2 Issue 4, 2000.
Pretious, Mike and Clarke, Ian, Managing the Impact of New Store Development: Trading Potential at Scottish Power Retail , Contemporary Cases in Retail Operations Management , ed. Brenda M Oldfield, Ruth A. Schmidt, Ian Clarke, Cathy Hart, Malcolm H. Kirkup, Macmillan Business, 2000.
Pretious, Mike, New Retail Locations: A Preliminary Taxonomy , Localisation des Entreprises Commerciales, Industrielles et des Services Publics dans L’Espace Europeen: Theories et Pratiques , IREIMAR / CREREG, Rennes, France, June 1999.
Staines, Harry and Pretious, Mike, Effect Of CCTV on Crime in a Scottish City Centre and its Residential Areas , Proceedings of the 6th International Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science Conference , Puerto Rico, August 1999.
Pretious, Mike, Roadside Retailing Revisited: Petrol Forecourt convenience stores in the UK, Retailing in the 21st Century Conference , Katholieke Universeit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, February 1998.
Pretious, Mike, Ancillary Retailing - Towards a Preliminary Classification, Proceedings of the 5th International Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science Conference , Baveno, Italy, August 1998.
The Development and Evaluation of a Closed Circuit Television System in Central Dundee: Implications for Town Centre Management , Proceedings of the 5th International Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science Conference , Baveno, Italy August 1998.
Pretious, Mike, The Development of Petrol Retailing at Tesco , in Hart C. et. al. (eds.), Cases in Retailing , CORTCO / Blackwell 1997.
Pretious, Mike, and Nulty, Leza, Local Marketing: How a National Retailer Adapts its Marketing to a Local Environment , Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Conference , Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, July 1997.
Rushmer, R, Pretious, Mike and Scott, Debbie, Managing Expectations to Overcome Resistance: Change in a Grocery Retail Multiple, British Academy of Management Annual Conference , London Business School, London, September 1997.
Evaluation of Proposed CCTV Initiative in Dundee and Perth , for Tayside Police / Dundee City Council / SET, 1996-2000.
Evaluation of Dundee / Perth GP Out of Hours Clinics , for Tayside Health Board, 1998-99.
Marketing Crime Prevention , module for Scottish Police Standard Crime Prevention Course 1996-97.
Pretious, Mike, Changing Sourcing Patterns of UK Apparel Retailers , Proceedings of the Marketing Education Group Conference , University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, July 1996.
Pretious, Mike, Forecourt Wars: An Investigation into the Changing Nature of Roadside Retailing in the UK, Proceedings of the 3rd CIRASS / EIRASS International Conference on Retailing and Services Science , Telfs-Buchen, Austria, June 1996.
Pretious, Mike, Stewart, Robert, and Logan, David, Retail Security in Dundee , Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades , CESCOM / Università Bocconi Milan, Milan, Italy, 1995.
Pretious, Mike, Stewart, Robert, and Logan, David, Retail Security: a Survey of Methods and Management in Dundee , International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management , Vol. 23 No. 9, 1995.
Selected Consultancy   User Support Desk Study (market research), for Perth and Kinross District Council, 1995.
Models of Society Study , for the Lord Chamberlain's office, Buckingham Palace, 1995.