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Katie Fitzpatrick

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.

Academic career

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]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Katie Fitzpatrick (Q58160050).

Books

Journal articles

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Katie Fitzpatrick « 2014 Awardees « Awardees « Rutherford Discovery Fellowships « Funds « Funds, Medals & Competitions « Royal Society of New Zealand". 23 March 2017. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  2. ^ Fitzpatrick, Katie (2010). Stop playing up! A critical ethnography of health, physical education and (sub)urban schooling (PhD thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. hdl:10289/4429.
  3. ^ a b c University of Auckland. "Academic Profile: Professor Katie Fitzpatrick". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Katie Fitzpatrick". Raising the bar. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Previous Beeby recipients | New Zealand Council for Educational Research". www.nzcer.org.nz. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  6. ^ Fitzpatrick, Katie (17 May 2022). "Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda". Sport Education and Society. 28 (8): 873–886. doi:10.1080/13573322.2022.2077718.

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