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Heather Came-Friar

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Heather Came-Friar
Other namesHeather Anne Came
AwardsMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Waikato, University of Otago, University of Canterbury
Thesis
Doctoral advisorMaria Humphries, Suzanne Lisa Parker Grant
Academic work
InstitutionsAuckland University of Technology, Victoria University of Wellington

Heather Anne Came-Friar MNZM is a New Zealand activist, academic and anti-racism scholar, and is an adjunct professor at Victoria University of Wellington, and an anti-racism consultant. In 2023 Came-Friar was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori, education and health.

Early life and education

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Came-Friar is a seventh-generation Pākehā New Zealander.[1] Came-Friar completed a Master of Political Science degree at the University of Canterbury, after which she became interested in public health. She earned a Certificate in Health Promotion from the University of Otago in Wellington, through distance learning.[2] She then followed this with a PhD titled Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health at the University of Waikato.[3]

Career

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Came-Friar joined the faculty of the Auckland University of Technology, rising to associate professor in 2022.[4] In 2023 she was appointed as an adjunct professor in the Department of Public Health at Victoria University of Wellington.[2] Came conducts critical policy analysis research and activism aimed at social and racial justice, and she has campaigned for recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi. In 2013 Came-Friar founded the group STIR: Stop Institutional Racism, of which she became co-chair.[5] In 2020 she founded a series of virtual anti-racism and decolonisation gatherings called Te Tiriti based futures + Anti racism (Decol).[6][7]

Honours and awards

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In the New Years Honours of 2023 Came was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori, education and health.[5]

In 2021 Came-Friar jointly won the Public Health Association's Kāhui Hauora Tūmatanui Public Health Champion Award.[8][9]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b Clarke, Margie (23 January 2023). "Honour recognises advocacy for equity, social justice and anti-racism". Newsroom, University of Otago.
  3. ^ Came, Heather (2012). Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health (PhD thesis). University of Waikato.
  4. ^ "New Professors and Associate Professors". AUT News. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  5. ^ a b "New Year Honours List 2023 - Citations for Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". www.dpmc.govt.nz. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Heather Came". Community Research. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  7. ^ Maasland, Shoshana (19 June 2020). "Anti-racism books fly off the shelves in NZ in wake of US protests". Te Waha Nui. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Heather Came". The Conversation. 19 July 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Public Health Awards". Public Health Association. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
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