# Liz Ditzel

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**Elizabeth Mary Ditzel** (also **Hall**) is a New Zealand nursing academic, and is a full professor at the [Otago Polytechnic](/source/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](/source/Peterborough_and_Stamford_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust) NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. Ditzel also earned a [Bachelor of Commerce](/source/Bachelor_of_Commerce) and a [Master of Commerce](/source/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](/source/University_of_Otago). She supervised more than forty postgraduate students, and completed a [PhD](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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

- Wikidata item [Q25255695](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25255695)
- Wikidata item [Q50781114](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50781114)
- Wikidata item [Q40666993](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40666993)
- Wikidata item [Q130007925](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130007925)
- Wikidata item [Q130008745](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130008745)

## References

1. ["ORCID"](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5908-9885). *orcid.org*. Retrieved 2024-08-28.

1. ["Professoriate"](https://www.op.ac.nz/research/professoriate/). *Otago Polytechnic*. Retrieved 2024-08-28.

1. Ditzel, Elizabeth Mary (2008). [*A study of perceived occupational stress, burnout and sense of community among New Zealand nurses*](https://otago.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64OTAGO_INST/qef3lj/alma99154030801891) (PhD thesis). University of Otago.

1. ["Dr Liz Ditzel"](https://ako.ac.nz/programmes-and-services/te-whatu-kairangi/awardee-community/2017-tertiary-teaching-excellence-awardees/dr-liz-ditzel). *ako.ac.nz*. Retrieved 2024-08-19.

1. ["Research stories: Video-enhanced education"](http://otagopolytechnic.co.nz/research/research-stories/video-enhanced-education/). *Otago Polytechnic*. September 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2024.

1. ["Search the Research Database - Otago Polytechnic"](https://online.op.ac.nz/industry-and-research/research/search/). *online.op.ac.nz*. Retrieved 2024-08-18.

1. Gibb, John (2017-08-10). ["Tertiary teachers honoured"](https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/tertiary-teachers-honoured). *[Otago Daily Times](/source/Otago_Daily_Times)*. Retrieved 2024-08-19.

1. ["University of Otago Win a Quarter of the 2017 Tertiary Teaching Awards"](https://www.critic.co.nz/news/article/7013/university-of-otago-win-a-quarter-of-the-2017-tert). *Critic - Te Ārohi*. Retrieved 2024-08-28.

## External links

- *[Dr Liz Ditzel - Recipient of a 2017 Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfGgwzz9knM)*, via YouTube
- *[Professor Liz Ditzel's Inaugural Professorial Lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ulC-CFQB-8)*, 12 November 2019, via YouTube

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