Candice Harris

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. Harris then joined the faculty of Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor in 2018. 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. 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".

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. She is a member of the Corporate Mothers Network, and is co-chair of the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education Fellows.

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

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".

Journal articles

 * 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
 * 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