Katie Fitzpatrick
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| Awards | Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Sutton-Smith Doctoral Award |
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| Alma mater | University of Waikato |
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| Doctoral advisor | Sue Middleton, Doug Booth |
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| 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]
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