Katie Fitzpatrick is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the

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, specialising in health education, education sociology and public health. Fitzpatrick was awarded a

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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

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. She worked as a lecturer in the Sport and Leisure Studies Department at the University of Waikato. In 2010 Fitzpatrick completed a

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titled ''Stop playing up! A critical ethnography of health, physical education and (sub)urban schooling'' at the

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. 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

, for transdisciplinary research on youth health issues and how young people apply health knowledge. Fitzpatrick's research includes health and wellbeing, physical education, mental health and sexuality education, critical pedagogy and critical ethnography. Fitzpatrick led the writing of the Relationships and Sexuality education guidelines for the Ministry of Education, and co-led with Professor

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the Ministry of Education policy on mental health education published in 2022, and accompanying teaching resources. 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. In 2016, Fitzpatrick was awarded a Beeby Fellowship by the

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, 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.

Selected works

Books

* Katie Fitzpatrick (2012) ''Critical pedagogy, physical education and urban schooling''. Peter Lang. ISBN 9781433117411 * Katie Fitzpatrick and Stephen May (2022). ''Critical ethnography and education: Theory, methodology, and ethics''. 199 pages. Routledge ISBN 9781138631960 *Esther Fitzpatrick and Katie Fitzpatrick, editors. (21 July 2020) ''Poetry, Method and Education Research: Doing Critical, Decolonising and Political Inquiry.'' 306 pages. Routledge. ISBN 9780429202117 * Deana Leahy, Katie Fitzpatrick, Jan Wright, editors. (30 Mar 2020) ''Social Theory and Health Education Forging New Insights in Research''. 264 pages. Routledge

Journal articles

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References

External links

Fitzpatrick talking
about the

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’s planned “removal and replacement of the gender, sexuality, and relationship-based education guidelines”, via Waatea News {{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzpatrick, Katie New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics New Zealand sociologists New Zealand educational theorists University of Waikato alumni Academic staff of the University of Waikato Academic staff of the University of Auckland