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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. She worked as a lecturer in the Sport and Leisure Studies Department at the University of Waikato. 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. Fitzpatrick then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor. 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 ...
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University Of Auckland
The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially located in a repurposed courthouse, the university has grown substantially over the years. As of 2024, it stands as the largest university in New Zealand by enrolment, teaching approximately 43,000 students across three major campuses in central Auckland. The university conducts teaching and learning within six faculties, two research institutes, and other institutes and centres. The City Campus, in the Auckland central business district, hosts the majority of students and faculties. History Origins The University of Auckland began as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand, founded on 23 May 1883 as ''Auckland University College''. Stewardship of the university during its establishment period was the responsibility of Joh ...
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Rutherford Discovery Fellowships
The Rutherford Discovery Fellowships are an annual science fellowship in New Zealand. The fellowships, established in 2010, are administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi through a competitive process. Ten fellowships are awarded nationally. The successful Fellows are announced in October/November each year. The awards made in 2023, to twelve recipients, were the final awards. Fellowship scheme The fellowships are administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi through Terms of Reference established by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (New Zealand), Minister of Science and Innovation, and are intended to "develop excellent researchers in New Zealand". The establishment of the scheme was funded by reprioritising funding from the existing James Cook Research Fellowships and the disestablished Foundation for Research, Science and Technology-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships. The fellowships provide up to $160,000 per annum for five years for ten researchers, and are aimed at ...
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South Auckland
South Auckland ( or ) is one of the major geographical regions of Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand. The area is south of the Auckland isthmus, and on the eastern shores of the Manukau Harbour. The area has been populated by Tāmaki Māori since at least the 14th century, and has important archaeological sites, such as the Ōtuataua stonefield gardens at Ihumātao, and Māngere Mountain, a former pā site important to Waiohua tribes. The area was primarily farmland until the mid-20th century, when the construction of the Auckland Southern Motorway led to major suburban development, and the establishing of Manukau City, which was later amalgamated into Auckland. Large-scale State housing in New Zealand, state housing areas were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s, which led to significant Urban Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders, Pasifika communities developing in the area. The presence of 165 different ethnicities makes South Auckland one of the most diverse places in Ne ...
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University Of Waikato
The University of Waikato (), established in 1964, is a Public university, public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in numerous disciplines such as education, social sciences, and management and is an innovator in environmental science, marine and freshwater ecology, engineering and computer science. It offers degrees in health, engineering, computer science, management, Māori language, Māori and Indigenous Studies, the Arts, the arts, psychology, social sciences and education. History In the mid-1950s, regional and national leaders recognised the need for a new university and urged the then University of New Zealand (UNZ) and the government to establish one in Hamilton. Their campaign coincided with a shortage of school teachers, and after years of lobbying, Minister of Education Philip Skoglund agreed to open a teachers' college in the region. In 1960, th ...
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Rutherford Discovery Fellowship
The Rutherford Discovery Fellowships are an annual science fellowship in New Zealand. The fellowships, established in 2010, are administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi through a competitive process. Ten fellowships are awarded nationally. The successful Fellows are announced in October/November each year. The awards made in 2023, to twelve recipients, were the final awards. Fellowship scheme The fellowships are administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi through Terms of Reference established by the Minister of Science and Innovation, and are intended to "develop excellent researchers in New Zealand". The establishment of the scheme was funded by reprioritising funding from the existing James Cook Research Fellowships and the disestablished Foundation for Research, Science and Technology-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships. The fellowships provide up to $160,000 per annum for five years for ten researchers, and are aimed at early to mid-career researchers (three to eight ...
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Melinda Webber
Melinda Webber is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in Māori identity and ways in which race, ethnicity, identity and culture impact on young people and their success. She is of Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Whakaue descent. Academic career Webber completed a master's thesis titled ''Hybrid Māori/Pākeha: Explorations of identity for people of mixed Māori/Pākeha descent'' in 2007, and a PhD titled ''Identity matters: Racial-ethnic representations among adolescents attending multi-ethnic high schools'' in 2011, both at the University of Auckland. Her doctoral advisors were Elizabeth McKinley and John Hattie. In 2017, Webber received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to explore identity and success from an iwi perspective. She has also received a Marsden Fast Start grant, and in 2013 was a Fulbright Scholar. For her Fulbright award, Webber travelled to University of Wisconsin–Green Bay to share knowl ...
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New Zealand Council For Educational Research
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) is an independent, educational research organisation that provides educators, students, parents, policy makers, and the public with innovative and independent research, analysis, and advice. Established in 1934 through grants from the Carnegie Corporation, it became a statutory body A statutory body or statutory authority is a body set up by law (statute) that is authorised to implement certain legislation on behalf of the relevant country or state, sometimes by being Primary and secondary legislation, empowered or deleg ... in 1945 and now operates under the NZCER Act 1972 (and amendments). It is not formally attached to any government department, university, or other educational organisation. Under Section 13 of the NZCER Act, the organisation is required to: *foster the study of, and research into, educational and other like matters; *prepare and publish such reports on these matters as may in its opinion be necess ...
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Sixth National Government Of New Zealand
The Sixth National Government is a coalition government comprising the National Party, ACT Party and New Zealand First that has governed New Zealand since November 2023. The government is headed by Christopher Luxon, the National Party leader and prime minister, along with coalition party leaders David Seymour and Winston Peters. Following the 2023 general election on 14 October 2023, coalition negotiations between the three parties ended on 24 November, and ministers of the new government were sworn in by the Governor-General on 27 November. The coalition government has agreed to a select committee with the possibility of amending the Treaty of Waitangi legislation, affirm local referendums on Māori wards, and prioritise English over the Māori language in Government departments. On broader issues, the government's plan includes restoring interest deductibility for rental properties, changes in housing policies, infrastructure investment, conservative law and justi ...
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New Zealand Academics
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