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Personal profile
Personal profile
Mandi is a researcher and lecturer with a special interest in the emotional demands (emotion work), people skills (Affective Abilities) required, and organisational contexts (power-relations) in people-centric service work. She explores these concepts in organised outdoor experiences, youth & community development, recreation and leisure contexts. Her work explores everyday work experiences through sociological concepts to offer fresh insights to ethical and sustainable employment, leadership and higher education for current and future work.
Research Interests
- Emotional Labour and Emotion Work
- Soft Skills & Affective Abilities
- Post-structuralism & Foucault
- Qualitative Methodologies
- Residential and Vacation Camp
- Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning
- Leadership
- Youth Development
- Youth Employment
- Emerging workforces, Employability & Graduate attributes
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Education/Academic qualification
Tourism, Hotel and Sport Management, PhD, Becoming and Being a Camp Counsellor: a study of Discourse, Power Relations and Emotion, Griffith University Queensland
Award Date: 28 Apr 2016
Keywords
- HM Sociology
- post-structuralism
- emotion work
- power relations
- discourse
- performativity
- embodiment
- Affective Abilities
- ethics
- GV Recreation Leisure
- outdoor recreation
- service provision
- hotel/hospitality
- LB2300 Higher Education
- employability
- graduate attributes
- personal development
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An Impossible Job: How Self-Surveillance, Responsibilisation and Personalisation Shape Outdoor Leader Embodiment
Baker, M. & O’Brien, W., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Leisure Sciences.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction to special issue on being outdoors: challenging and celebrating diverse outdoor leisure embodiments and experiences: challenging and celebrating diverse outdoor leisure embodiments and experiences
Baker, M., Carr, N. & Stewart, E., 2022, In: Annals of Leisure Research. 25, 3, p. 305-313 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Special issue on being outdoors part 2: being in the urban outdoors
Stewart, E., Carr, N. & Baker, M., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Annals of Leisure Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conclusion: Disrupting Outdoor Leisure
Baker, M., Stewart, E. J. & Carr, N., 1 Jan 2021, Leisure Activities in the Outdoors: Learning, Developing and Challenging. CABI International, p. 172-180 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Exploring the gendered discourses of Canadian summer camp experiences
Baker, M. & Hannant-Minchel, J., 2021, Canadian Congress of Leisure Studies.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Prizes
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Canadian Camping Association Research Award of Excellence
Baker, Mandi (Recipient), Dec 2016
Prize: Other distinction
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Check yourself: How professional self-reflection can improve student employability
Baker, Mandi (Recipient), Livaic, Zelko (Recipient) & Hodgert, Lacey (Recipient), 2017
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