Fiona May Cram is a New Zealand social psychologist and researcher, of NgÃÂti PÃÂhauwera descent. In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cram was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand, for services to MÃÂori health and education.
Cram was born in Gisborne, and attended Mangapapa Primary School, Ilminster Intermediate and Lytton High School. She is of MÃÂori descent, and affiliates to NgÃÂti PÃÂhauwera. 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 MÃÂori 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 MÃÂori Health Research Centre. In 2003 Cram set up Katoa Limited, which conducts Kaupapa MÃÂori research, evaluation and training. Her research interests include MÃÂori justice, education and health, MÃÂori and science, and MÃÂori language. Cram's notable students include Leonie Pihama and Sue Crengle.
Cram has been on the board of the Health Research Council, as well as sitting on a number of committees, including the MÃÂori 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 TÃÂhà « Hauora (the Health Quality and Safety Commission)'s Family Violence Death Review Committee. 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.
In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cram was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand, for services to MÃÂori health and education. She has been named as one of 100 MÃÂori leaders recognised 'for their contributions, service, vision, dedication and expertise towards constructive change and improvement to MÃÂori health'.