Liz Ditzel
{{Short description|New Zealand professor of nursing}}
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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.{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5908-9885 |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=orcid.org}} 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.{{Cite thesis|title=A study of perceived occupational stress, burnout and sense of community among New Zealand nurses|last=Ditzel|first=Elizabeth Mary|type=PhD thesis|publisher=University of Otago|url=https://otago.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64OTAGO_INST/qef3lj/alma99154030801891|date=2008}} Ditzel then returned to nursing education, joining the faculty of Otago Polytechnic in 2010, and rising to full professor in 2019.{{Cite web |title=Professoriate |url=https://www.op.ac.nz/research/professoriate/ |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=Otago Polytechnic |language=en}}
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. 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.{{Cite web |date=September 2021 |title=Research stories: Video-enhanced education |url=http://otagopolytechnic.co.nz/research/research-stories/video-enhanced-education/ |access-date=18 August 2024 |website=Otago Polytechnic}}{{Cite web |title=Search the Research Database - Otago Polytechnic |url=https://online.op.ac.nz/industry-and-research/research/search/ |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=online.op.ac.nz}}
In 2017 Ditzel was awarded a national teaching award, an Ako Aotearoa Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching.{{Cite web |title=Dr Liz Ditzel |url=https://ako.ac.nz/programmes-and-services/te-whatu-kairangi/awardee-community/2017-tertiary-teaching-excellence-awardees/dr-liz-ditzel |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=ako.ac.nz |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Gibb |first=John |date=2017-08-10 |title=Tertiary teachers honoured |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/tertiary-teachers-honoured |access-date=2024-08-19 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=University of Otago Win a Quarter of the 2017 Tertiary Teaching Awards |url=https://www.critic.co.nz/news/article/7013/university-of-otago-win-a-quarter-of-the-2017-tert |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=Critic - Te Ārohi}} The citation described her as "a ‘new paradigm’ thinker with a “modern approach”, committed to student-centred and innovative approaches to teaching and learning".
Selected works
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- {{Cite Q|Q25255695|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite Q|Q50781114}}
- {{Cite Q|Q40666993}}
- {{Cite Q|Q130007925}}
- {{Cite Q|Q130008745}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfGgwzz9knM Dr Liz Ditzel - Recipient of a 2017 Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award], via YouTube
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ulC-CFQB-8 Professor Liz Ditzel's Inaugural Professorial Lecture], 12 November 2019, via YouTube
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
Category:University of Otago alumni