| Fiona Cram | |
| Doctoral Students: | Leonie Pihama |
| Notable Students: | Sue Crengle |
Fiona May Cram is a New Zealand social psychologist and researcher, of Ngāti Pāhauwera descent. In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cram was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand, for services to Māori health and education.
Cram was born in Gisborne, and attended Mangapapa Primary School, Ilminster Intermediate and Lytton High School.[1] She is of Māori descent, and affiliates to Ngāti Pāhauwera.[2] Cram completed a Bachelor of Arts, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychology and a PhD at the University of Otago in social and developmental psychology.
Cram joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 1990 as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology, and from 1998 until 2003 she was Director of the university's International Research Institute for Māori and Indigenous Education. Cram also held a position as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Otago School of Medicine in Wellington, at the Eru Pomare Māori Health Research Centre. In 2003 Cram set up Katoa Limited, which conducts Kaupapa Māori research, evaluation and training. Her research interests include Māori justice, education and health, Māori and science, and Māori language.[3] [4] [5] [6] Cram's notable students include Leonie Pihama and Sue Crengle.[7] [8]
Cram has been on the board of the Health Research Council, as well as sitting on a number of committees, including the Māori Health Research Committee and the Public Health Research Committee. She has served as the Editor in Chief of the journal Evaluation Matters - He Take To Te Aromatawai, published by the New Zealand Association for Educational Research. As of 2023 she is the Chair of Te Tāhū Hauora (the Health Quality and Safety Commission)'s Family Violence Death Review Committee.[9] [10] In 2023 the committee released their eighth report, which recommended a new system be set up to better support child survivors of family violence resulting in death.[11]
In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cram was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand, for services to Māori health and education.[12] She has been named as one of 100 Māori leaders recognised 'for their contributions, service, vision, dedication and expertise towards constructive change and improvement to Māori health'.