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.

Masters-Awatere affiliates to Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, and Ngai te Rangi iwi.^[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 trained as a community psychologist and worked in private practice before continuing her studies.^[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. Her research was supervised by Linda Waimarie Nikora and Neville Robertson.^[2]

Masters-Awatere joined the faculty of the University of Waikato, rising to full professor in 2024.^[3] Since 2019, she is Director of the Māori and Psychology Research Unit, and leads the only Board-accredited community psychology training programme for professional practice in New Zealand.^[4][1]

Master-Awatere serves as the Director of Professional Development and Training for the New Zealand Psychological Society.^[5] She is part of the New Zealand Policy Research Institute's research team on Low Literacy & Numeracy, funded by an MBIE Endeavour Grant.^[6] Masters-Awatere also contributes to the Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga Centre of Research Excellence, which aims to use research to address real world challenges facing Māori.^[7] She is also a part of the Deep South National Science Challenge, which is focused on understanding and adapting to climate change.^[4]

Masters-Awatere's research focuses on values-based research to address issues resulting from inequity in health and psychology.^[8] She has worked on the experiences of low-vision Māori during the COVID-19 lockdowns, the inclusion of Mātauranga Māori in literacy and numeracy education, and how health, wellbeing and the environment are connected.^[9]

Masters-Awatere was elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society.^[3]

Scholia has a profile for Bridgette Masters-Awatere (Q91003370).

• Rebekah Graham; Bridgette Masters-Awatere (20 April 2020). "Experiences of Māori of Aotearoa New Zealand's public health system: a systematic review of two decades of published qualitative research". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12971. ISSN 1326-0200. PMID 32311187. Wikidata Q92080059.
• John Oetzel; Nina Scott; Maui Hudson; Bridgette Masters-Awatere; Moana Rarere; Jeff Foote; Angela Beaton; Terry Ehau (5 September 2017). "Implementation framework for chronic disease intervention effectiveness in Māori and other indigenous communities". Globalization and Health. 13 (1): 69. doi:10.1186/S12992-017-0295-8. ISSN 1744-8603. PMC 5584010. PMID 28870225. Wikidata Q41611171.
• Darrin Hodgetts; Bridgette Masters; Neville Robertson (28 October 2004). "Media coverage of 'decades of disparity' in ethnic mortality in Aotearoa". Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 14 (6): 455–472. doi:10.1002/CASP.792. ISSN 1052-9284. Wikidata Q125756928.
• Linda Waimarie Nikora; Bridgette Masters-Awatere; Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (9 August 2012). "Final Arrangements Following Death: Maori Indigenous Decision Making and Tangi". Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 22 (5): 400–413. doi:10.1002/CASP.2112. ISSN 1052-9284. Wikidata Q58405304.
• Neville Robertson; Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Community Psychology in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Me Tiro Whakamuri a- Kia- Hangai Whakamua, pp. 140–163, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-49500-2_7, Wikidata Q125756926
• Andrea Teng; Tony Blakely; Nina Scott; Rawiri Jansen; Bridgette Masters-Awatere; Jeremy Krebs; John Oetzel (8 January 2019). "What protects against pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes? Observational study of integrated health and social data". Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 148: 119–129. doi:10.1016/J.DIABRES.2018.12.003. ISSN 0168-8227. PMID 30633935. Wikidata Q91003374.
• Mohi Rua; Shiloh Groot; Darrin Hodgetts; Linda Waimarie Nikora; Bridgette Masters-Awatere; Pita King; Rolinda Karapu; Neville Robertson (2021), Decoloniality in Being Māori and Community Psychologists: Advancing an Evolving and Culturally-Situated Approach, pp. 177–191, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72220-3_10, Wikidata Q125756916

• Assoc. Prof. Bridgette Masters-Awatere - Vision Mātauranga, video by Kudos Science Trust, September 2022, via YouTube