Katie Fitzpatrick | |
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Awards | Rutherford Discovery Fellowship , Sutton-Smith Doctoral Award |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Waikato |
Thesis | |
Doctoral advisor | Sue Middleton , Doug Booth |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Auckland |
Katie Fitzpatrick is a New Zealand academic,and is a full professor at the University of Auckland,specialising in health education,education sociology and public health. Fitzpatrick was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2014,a Beeby Fellowship in 2017,and the Catherine D. Ennis Outstanding Scholar Award in 2021.
Fitzpatrick qualified first as a teacher,and taught for seven years in secondary schools in South Auckland. [1] She worked as a lecturer in the Sport and Leisure Studies Department at the University of Waikato. [1] In 2010 Fitzpatrick completed a PhD titled Stop playing up! A critical ethnography of health,physical education and (sub)urban schooling at the University of Waikato. [2] Fitzpatrick then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland,rising to full professor. [3]
In 2014,whilst a senior lecturer at Auckland,Fitzpatrick was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship,for transdisciplinary research on youth health issues and how young people apply health knowledge. [1] Fitzpatrick's research includes health and wellbeing,physical education,mental health and sexuality education,critical pedagogy and critical ethnography. [3] [4] Fitzpatrick led the writing of the Relationships and Sexuality education guidelines for the Ministry of Education,and co-led with Professor Melinda Webber the Ministry of Education policy on mental health education published in 2022,and accompanying teaching resources. [3]
Fitzpatrick has published a number of books. Her first,Critical Pedagogy,Physical Education and Urban Schooling (2013,Peter Lang) won the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Outstanding Book Prize in 2013. [1]
In 2016,Fitzpatrick was awarded a Beeby Fellowship by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research,to produce a mental health teaching resource,and in 2021 the American Association of Research in Education awarded her the Catherine D. Ennis Outstanding Scholar Award. [5] [6]