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.

Candice Harris
Academic background
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington
Thesis
Academic work
InstitutionsAuckland University of Technology
Doctoral studentsKatherine Ravenswood

Academic career

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Harris completed a PhD titled Women and Power: a Study of New Zealand Women Business Travellers at Victoria University of Wellington in 2002.[1][2] Harris then joined the faculty of Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor in 2018.[2][3][4] As of 2024 Harris is head of the Management Department, in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.[3]

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.[2] 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.[5][6][7] 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".[8]

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.[9] She is a member of the Corporate Mothers Network, and is co-chair of the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education Fellows.[2][10][11]

Notable doctoral students of Harris's include Katherine Ravenswood, professor of industrial relations at AUT.[12]

Honours and awards

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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".[3][13]

Selected works

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Book

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  • Pritchard, A.; Morgan, N.; Ateljevic, I.; Harris, C., eds. (January 2007). Tourism and gender: embodiment, sensuality and experience (1 ed.). UK: CABI. doi:10.1079/9781845932718.0000. ISBN 978-1-84593-271-8.

Journal articles

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References

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  1. ^ Harris, Candice Amanda (2002). Women and Power: a Study of New Zealand Women Business Travellers (PhD thesis). Victoria University of Wellington.
  2. ^ a b c d Auckland University of Technology. "Academic profile: Professor Candice Harris". academics.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Candice Harris". The Conversation. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Five questions: Professor Candice Harris – AUT News – AUT". www.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  5. ^ Harris, Candice (2 April 2023). "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". The Conversation. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  6. ^ Harris, Candice; Myers, Barbara; Haar, Jarrod (28 December 2023). "Older workers still struggle with work-life balance – and there's no one-size-fits-all remedy". RNZ. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  7. ^ Harris, Candice; Williamson, David; Rasmussen, Erling (23 August 2022). "Hostile hospitality? Survey finds decent work conditions still missing from too many menus". The Conversation. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  8. ^ "What kinds of benefits are popular with employees?". www.hcamag.com. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  9. ^ "Te Manahua New Zealand Universities Women in Leadership Programme (NZUWiL) | Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara". www.universitiesnz.ac.nz. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Candice Harris and Rebecca Armour: the working mum's conundrum". RNZ. 2 December 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  11. ^ Us, CAUTHE Secretariat Penny Jose T: +61 422757226 Contact. "Fellow members". CAUTHE. Retrieved 1 February 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Ravenswood, Katherine. Productivity, participation and employee wellbeing in the Residential Aged Care Sector (PhD thesis). Tuwhera Open Access, Auckland University of Technology. hdl:10292/4251.
  13. ^ "AUT's inaugural diversity awards celebrate staff's commitment to diversity". Multicultural Times. 29 August 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2024.