Shelagh K. Mooney

Dr Shelagh Mooney is an Associate Professor and Hospitality Postgraduate Program Leader at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa-New Zealand.

She was educated in Dublin to tertiary level and completed her postgraduate studies in New Zealand.

Shelagh’s field work provides empirical detail about neglected areas of tourism employment. Focusing on gendered workplace norms, young people’s employment outcomes, and sustainable workforce issues led Shelagh to establish research collaborations with researchers in Australia and the United Kingdom.

She has published extensively in international journals such as Work, Employment and Society, and presented on gendered organisations and decent work and intersectional aspects of employment in the service sector.

Prior to academia, Shelagh held senior executive roles in organisations such as Intercontinental Hotels and Hilton across Europe and represented academic perspectives on gender in industry forums.

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