Kate Prickett is the Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children and an Associate Professor in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. As a family sociologist and demographer, Kate’s research is focused on the ways in which the connection between family contexts and children’s health and wellbeing is implicated in the intergenerational transmission of inequality. A particular emphasis of this research is to understand how interpersonal processes between parents and children are embedded within a complex array of proximate ecological settings (such as work and child care) and broader systems of stratification (e.g., gender, socioeconomic status).
Prior to arriving at Victoria University, Kate was a senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Waikato (New Zealand), and an NICHD postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies. She completed a Ph.D. in sociology and a M.A. in Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.