Katie Fitzpatrick

Katie Fitzpatrick
AwardsRutherford Discovery Fellowship, Sutton-Smith Doctoral Award
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Waikato
Thesis
Doctoral advisorSue Middleton, Doug Booth
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity 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.

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

  • 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

  • Hayley McGlashan; Katie Fitzpatrick (10 January 2018). "'I use any pronouns, and I'm questioning everything else': transgender youth and the issue of gender pronouns". Sex Education. 18 (3): 239–252. doi:10.1080/14681811.2017.1419949. ISSN 1468-1811. Wikidata Q126045601.
  • Katie Fitzpatrick; Dan Russell (16 September 2013). "On being critical in health and physical education". Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 20 (2): 159–173. doi:10.1080/17408989.2013.837436. ISSN 1740-8989. Wikidata Q126045562.
  • Darren Powell; Katie Fitzpatrick (4 April 2013). "'Getting fit basically just means, like, nonfat': children's lessons in fitness and fatness". Sport Education and Society. 20 (4): 463–484. doi:10.1080/13573322.2013.777661. ISSN 1357-3322. Wikidata Q58155588.
  • Dillon Landi; Katie Fitzpatrick; Hayley McGlashan (October 2016). "Models Based Practices in Physical Education: A Sociocritical Reflection". Journal of Teaching in Physical Education. 35 (4): 400–411. doi:10.1123/JTPE.2016-0117. ISSN 0273-5024. Wikidata Q126045602.

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.