Bridgette Masters-Awatere is a New Zealand academic and practising psychologist, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in Māori psychology and health.
[1] She was educated at Auckland Girls' Grammar School, where she was a member of the whānau group Ngā Tūmanako o Kahurangi.
Masters-Awatere originally planned to study te reo Māori and art history, but after attending a lecture by Moana Jackson she became interested in psychology.
[1] Masters-Awatere completed a PhD titled "That's the price we pay": Kaupapa Māori Programme stakeholder experiences of external evaluation at the University of Waikato.
[7] She is also a part of the Deep South National Science Challenge, which is focused on understanding and adapting to climate change.