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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, 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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Being Outdoors: Challenging and celebrating diverse outdoor leisure embodiments and experiences
Baker, M. (ed.), Carr, N. (ed.) & Stewart, E. (ed.), 2021, (In preparation) Annals of Leisure Research.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Special issue
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A Genealogy of Summer Camp
Baker, M., 2020, Becoming and Being a Camp Counsellor: Discourse, Power Relations and Emotions. 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., p. 23-52 30 p. (Leisure Studies in a Global Era).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Becoming a Camp Counsellor: Everyday Power and Processes of Subjectification
Baker, M., 2020, Becoming and Being a Camp Counsellor: Discourse, Power Relations and Emotions. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., p. 117-165 49 p. (Leisure Studies in a Global Era).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Becoming and Being a Camp Counsellor: Discourse, Power Relations and Emotions
Baker, M., 2020, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. (Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Becoming a Researcher: Navigating Messy Researcher Subjectivities
Baker, M., 8 Dec 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Leisure Sciences.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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, L. (Recipient), 2017
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The soft skill training needs in outdoor facilitation across Australia
Baker, Mandi (Recipient), 2016
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