Dr. Ghazala joined the Department of Marketing at Monash University Sunway Campus in 2000. Ghazala has 20 years of teaching marketing units at tertiary level. She has also supervised many Honors students to successful completion. She is a passionate academic and has won numerous teaching awards. She was recently appointed Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies and Coordinator for the Monash Early Career Researchers network. Her research interests lie primarily in consumer behaviour, particularly in the areas of consumer socialization, fashion marketing, and Islamic marketing. She also takes an interest in education focused research, drawing on her background as a trained educator. Her current projects focus on family decision making, the effects of sibling influence on purchase decisions, reference group influence, celebrity endorsements, fashion consciousness, Fashion Innovativeness and Halal tourism. Dr Ghazala received the Best Lecturer Award for School of Business under the Monash University Student Association in 2005, a feat repeated the following year when she was awarded the same accolade from the Monash University Student Association. Dr Ghazala is also a quadruple recipient for the PVC's Award for Excellence Teaching between 2008 to 2011.

• Islamic / Halal Marketing
• Halal Tourism
• Consumer decision making

• MKW3000 Strategic Branding
• MKW2402 Consumer Behaviour
• MKW2460 Integrated Marketing Communications
• MKM5260 International Marketing
• MKW2500 Retail Marketing