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.

Katie Fitzpatrick
Awards	Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Sutton-Smith Doctoral Award
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Waikato
Thesis	Stop playing up! A critical ethnography of health, physical education and (sub)urban schooling (2010)
Doctoral advisor	Sue Middleton, Doug Booth
Academic work
Institutions	University of Auckland

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

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.