Liz Ditzel
Other namesElizabeth Mary Ditzel
Elizabeth Hall
Alma materNorth West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
University of Otago
Thesis1 year2008
AwardsAko Aotearoa Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching

Elizabeth Mary Ditzel (also Hall) is a New Zealand nursing academic, and is a full professor at the Otago Polytechnic, specialising in nursing education, curriculum development, and the use of new technology within the nursing curriculum.

Academic career

Ditzel is a registered nurse, gaining her nursing qualifications through Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. Ditzel also earned a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Commerce from the University of Otago.[1][2] Ditzel worked as a nurse and nurse educator at Dunedin Public Hospital before becoming a lecturer in management at the University of Otago. She supervised more than forty postgraduate students, and completed a PhD titled A study of perceived occupational stress, burnout and sense of community among New Zealand nurses at the university in 2008.[3] Ditzel then returned to nursing education, joining the faculty of Otago Polytechnic in 2010, and rising to full professor in 2019.[2][1]

Ditzel is interested in the use of new technology in nursing education, and has investigated the use of mixed-reality education, standardised holographic patients, and methods for improving critical thinking and clinical reasoning in nursing students.[2][4] She collaborated with colleagues Claire Goode, Karole Hogarth, and Jean Ross to investigate the use of video in health education, which was published as a chapter in the 2021 Springer book Video Pedagogy: Theory and Practice, edited by Dilani Gedera and Arezou Zalipour.[5][6]

In 2017 Ditzel was awarded a national teaching award, an Ako Aotearoa Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching.[4][7][8] The citation described her as "a ‘new paradigm’ thinker with a “modern approach”, committed to student-centred and innovative approaches to teaching and learning".[4]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  2. ^ "Professoriate". Otago Polytechnic. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  3. ^ Ditzel, Elizabeth Mary (2008). A study of perceived occupational stress, burnout and sense of community among New Zealand nurses (PhD thesis). University of Otago.
  4. ^ "Dr Liz Ditzel". ako.ac.nz. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  5. ^ "Research stories: Video-enhanced education". Otago Polytechnic. September 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  6. ^ "Search the Research Database - Otago Polytechnic". online.op.ac.nz. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
  7. ^ Gibb, John (2017-08-10). "Tertiary teachers honoured". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  8. ^ "University of Otago Win a Quarter of the 2017 Tertiary Teaching Awards". Critic - Te Ārohi. Retrieved 2024-08-28.