Candice Harris
{{Short description|New Zealand professor of management}}
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Candice Amanda Harris is a New Zealand academic, and is Professor of Management at Auckland University of Technology, specialising in employee career experiences, gendered experiences in both paid and unpaid work, academic careers and women's careers.
Academic career
Harris completed a PhD titled Women and Power: a Study of New Zealand Women Business Travellers at Victoria University of Wellington in 2002.{{Cite thesis|last=Harris|first=Candice Amanda|type=PhD thesis|title= Women and Power: a Study of New Zealand Women Business Travellers|url= https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/22342|date=2002|publisher=Victoria University of Wellington}}{{Cite web |last=Auckland University of Technology |title=Academic profile: Professor Candice Harris |url=https://academics.aut.ac.nz/candice.harris/about |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=academics.aut.ac.nz}} Harris then joined the faculty of Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor in 2018.{{Cite web |date=2018-12-04 |title=Candice Harris |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/candice-harris-611631 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Five questions: Professor Candice Harris – AUT News – AUT |url=https://www.aut.ac.nz/news/stories/five-questions-professor-candice-harris |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=www.aut.ac.nz}} As of 2024 Harris is head of the Management Department, in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.
Harris's research focuses on employee career experiences, gendered experiences in both paid and unpaid work, and is particularly interested in academic careers and women's careers. She has written about the difficulties older workers face with work–life balance, the poor working conditions in the New Zealand hospitality industry, and how to juggle working with childcare when having to work from home.{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Candice |date=2023-04-02 |title=NZ kids will be at school for just 8 days in April – but there are ways for parents to C.O.P.E. with the holiday juggle |url=http://theconversation.com/nz-kids-will-be-at-school-for-just-8-days-in-april-but-there-are-ways-for-parents-to-c-o-p-e-with-the-holiday-juggle-203035 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Candice |last2=Myers |first2=Barbara |last3=Haar |first3=Jarrod |date=2023-12-28 |title=Older workers still struggle with work-life balance – and there's no one-size-fits-all remedy |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/505648/older-workers-still-struggle-with-work-life-balance-and-there-s-no-one-size-fits-all-remedy |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}}{{Cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Candice |last2=Williamson |first2=David |last3=Rasmussen |first3=Erling |date=2022-08-23 |title=Hostile hospitality? Survey finds decent work conditions still missing from too many menus |url=http://theconversation.com/hostile-hospitality-survey-finds-decent-work-conditions-still-missing-from-too-many-menus-188286 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}} Harris has also researched what employees value for benefits, but says "while it's nice to have benefits and perks, they don't count so much if you still don't have good management, fair pay, decent work, or work that's meaningful".{{Cite web |title=What kinds of benefits are popular with employees? |url=https://www.hcamag.com/nz/specialisation/benefits/what-kinds-of-benefits-are-popular-with-employees/461933 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=www.hcamag.com |language=en}}
In 2009 Harris was appointed as a member of the Universities New Zealand Women in Leadership Steering Group, and since 2023 has been co-chair.{{Cite web |title=Te Manahua New Zealand Universities Women in Leadership Programme (NZUWiL) {{!}} Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara |url=https://www.universitiesnz.ac.nz/about-universities-new-zealand/expert-and-working-groups/te-manahua-new-zealand-universities-women |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=www.universitiesnz.ac.nz}} She is a member of the Corporate Mothers Network, and is co-chair of the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education Fellows.{{Cite web |date=2018-12-02 |title=Candice Harris and Rebecca Armour: the working mum's conundrum |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018673783/candice-harris-and-rebecca-armour-the-working-mum-s-conundrum |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}}{{Cite web |last=Us |first=CAUTHE Secretariat Penny Jose T: +61 422757226 Contact |title=Fellow members |url=https://cauthe.org/about/fellows/fellow-members/ |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=CAUTHE |language=en-US}}
Notable doctoral students of Harris's include Katherine Ravenswood, professor of industrial relations at AUT.{{Cite thesis |title=Productivity, participation and employee wellbeing in the Residential Aged Care Sector |last=Ravenswood |first=Katherine |date= |degree=PhD |publisher=Tuwhera Open Access, Auckland University of Technology |hdl=10292/4251 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10292/4251}}
Honours and awards
In 2018 Harris was awarded one of AUT's inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Diversity Awards for "her contributions in the area of gender and diversity within AUT and beyond".{{Cite web |date=2018-08-29 |title=AUT's inaugural diversity awards celebrate staff's commitment to diversity |url=https://multiculturaltimes.news/stories/2018/9/3/auts-inaugural-diversity-awards-celebrate-staffs-commitment-to-diversity |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=Multicultural Times |language=en-US}}
Selected works
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= Book =
- {{Cite book |url=http://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.1079/9781845932718.0000 |title=Tourism and gender: embodiment, sensuality and experience |date=January 2007 |publisher=CABI |isbn=978-1-84593-271-8 |editor-last=Pritchard |editor-first=A. |edition=1 |location=UK |language=en |doi=10.1079/9781845932718.0000 |editor-last2=Morgan |editor-first2=N. |editor-last3=Ateljevic |editor-first3=I. |editor-last4=Harris |editor-first4=C.}}
=Journal articles =
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- Wilson, Erica and Candice Harris. "Meaningful travel: Women, independent travel and the search for self and meaning." Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 54, no. 2, 2006, pp. 161–172.
https://hrcak.srce.hr/161466 . Accessed 1 Feb. 2024 - {{Cite Q|Q124397834}}
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology
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