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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, 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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Research Output
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
Rethinking outdoor leadership: An investigation of Affective Abilities in Australian Higher Education curriculum
Baker, M. & O’Brien, W., 2019, In : Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Palgrave international handbook of women and outdoor learning
Baker, M., 2019, In : Annals of Leisure Research. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
All in good fun: governing camp experiences through discourses of ‘good’ and ‘fun’
Baker, M., Fullagar, S. & O’Brien, W., 15 Nov 2018, In : Leisure Studies. 38, 2, p. 260-273 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Welcome to the Bubble: Experiences of Liminality and Communitas among Summer Camp Counsellors
Baker, M., 2018, In : Journal of Youth Development. 13, 1-2, p. 24 43 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Prizes
Check yourself: How professional self-reflection can improve student employability
Baker, Mandi (Recipient), Livaic, Zelko (Recipient) & Lacey Hodgert (Recipient), 2017
Prize
Excellence in Research Award 2016, Canadian Camping Association
Baker, Mandi (Recipient), Dec 2016
Prize: Other distinction
The soft skill training needs in outdoor facilitation across Australia
Baker, Mandi (Recipient), 2016
Prize
Understanding Soft Skills in the Field: A case study of YMCA Camps Victoria
Baker, Mandi (Recipient), 2019
Prize