Associate Professor Juliana Mansvelt

Contact details

• Ph: 06 356 9099 ext 83640
  Location: 3.19, Social Sciences Tower (SST)
  Campus: Turitea

Research Interests

My research interests are focussed on the relationship between consumption, ageing and place.  These include projects which have focussed on:

• Working at leisure – contribution, productivity and pleasure in daily activities for the recently retired
• Decisions to move- looking at decisions to move to retirement villages and experiences of living in these places
• Understanding the connections between living standards and the capability to achieve  security, contribution, comfort, enjoyment, social integration and autonomy
• Exploring the connections between material objects and contexts, consuming practices, and experiences, meanings of aging well
• Examining the challenges and opportunities provided by organisations to enable older people to live mobile lives (to make bodies, knowledges and goods and services to move and flow) 
• Explorations of expectations sourrounding older people in relation to gifting, passing on and legacy
• The role of mundane commodities, commodity practices and spaces surrounding acquisition, possession and disposal in framing experiences and meanings of ageing well in place

Research Opportunities

• Supervision  (any time) I am interested in supervising any projects related to my research interests or the topics listed below which I am interested in pursuing further:
• Intergenerational Exchanges  (any time) Examining how social and economic intergenerational exchanges make individual, and familial identities, including expectations around consuming and ageing responsibly
• Engaging with Failure: the possibilities and problems of Ageing Well  (any time) Biographical, bodily and object failure – resilience, coping and mobilities when things and bodies and networks fail
• Consuming across the life-course  (anytime) Undertaking life-course interviews to examine the changing significance and meanings of consumption practices and commodities over time
• "Life's Little Luxuries"  (anytime) Endeavouring to understand the social and spatial constitution of 'luxury' and 'treats' and the ways this is linked to lifecourse trajectories and identities and the moral framings of consumption practices

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship, Health and Well-being

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Human Geography (160400): Recreation, Leisure and Tourism Geography (160402): Social and Cultural Geography (160403): Studies In Human Society (160000)

Keywords

consumption, ageing and place

qualitative research (interviewing and focus groups)

Completed Projects

Courses Coordinated

• 145.311 Geographies of Globalisation
• 145.710 Consumption and Place

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

• Natalie King - Doctor of Philosophy
  Career change amongst NZ Veterinary graduates
• Catherine Rivera-Puddle - Doctor of Philosophy
  'Social Justice is a Spiritual Practice': Exploring Citizenship Formation amongst young Christians in the Era of Trump.
• Daniel Ryland - Doctor of Philosophy
  Housing Tenure Mobility and Ability to Accommodate Shocks
• Caroline Day - Doctor of Philosophy
  Grandmothering in New Zealand: An examination of the experiences of grandmothers who are in paid employment and providing regular, information childcare to one or more grandchildren
• Natalie Slade - Doctor of Philosophy
  Constructing 'refugeeness': Exploring mediated discourses of hospitality, welcome and refugee (self)representation in New Zealand

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

• 2007 - Janet Stirling - Doctor of Philosophy
  Geography fieldtrips in NZ at Secondary School and undergraduate level in the second half of the 20th Century and beyond.
• 1997 - Susan Bowler - Doctor of Philosophy
  Managing the Shopping Centre as a Consumption Site. Creating Appealing Environments for Visitors; Some Australian and New Zealand Examples.

Media

• 09 Dec 2013 - Newspaper
  Shopping Linked to Longer Life.
  Sunday Star times Newspaper article by Olivia Wannan, in which I was quoted

Other Links

• Health and Ageing Research Team - HART is an interdisciplinary team based in the School of Psychology and includes researchers from the School of Health and Social Services and the School of People Environment and Planning. The team includes senior researchers, emerging researchers, and a large group of postgraduate doctoral, masters and honours students who work on projects in ageing research, and are supervised by HART staff. Members of the team have received various awards and distinctions for their research activities, including the Massey University Gold Team Research Medal in 2012.
• ESocSci Te Ara Koiora The Lifecourse network - Te Ara Koiora | The Life Course is a network co-convened by geographers Dr Juliana Mansvelt and Dr Aisling Gallagher, and sociologist Dr Lesley Patterson. The network offers an interdisciplinary space for researchers to exchange ideas and develop research agendas: to examine the life course as a diversely experienced yet socially patterned phenomenon. Te Ara Koiora brings researchers together to critically examine the ways in which life courses manifest and change across historical, cultural, social and spatial contexts. The network provides a forum for reflection and research on a wide range of topics including age and ageing, identity, wellbeing, and place. Te Ara Koiora welcomes a diverse range of theoretical frames and perspectives to emphasise the intersections between young and old, theory and method, and the personal, political, economic and cultural.
• Centre for Advanced Retail Studies - The Centre for Advanced Retail Studies (CARS) is the only research centre in New Zealand focused on retailing as a diverse, dynamic and growing industry.