Elizabeth Broadbent
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
AwardsFRSNZ
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics, electronic engineering, health psychology
InstitutionsTranspower New Zealand
University of Auckland
ThesisNew approaches to the assessment of illness perceptions (2005)

Elizabeth Anne Broadbent FRSNZ is a full professor of health psychology at the University of Auckland. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2021.

Academic career

Broadbent initially trained as an electronic engineer at the University of Canterbury, completing a Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honours (Electrical and Electronic).[1] She worked at companies Transpower, Électricité de Tahiti, and Robotechnology before continuing her education with a graduate Diploma of Arts from Massey University, and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the University of Auckland.[2] Her 2002 master's thesis was on the effects of stress, social support and beliefs on wound healing following surgery.[3] Her PhD thesis, completed in 2005, was titled New approaches to the assessment of illness perceptions.[4]

Broadbent was promoted to full professor at the University of Auckland in 2019.[5]

Broadbent has worked on how robots might help in school situations, both in the classroom and the sick bay, and also how might robots help patients managing chronic lung condition COPD. About 75% of patients in a controlled trial found that having robot assistance at home helped with medication adherence and companionship.[6][7] Her work on how writing can help recovery from injury and weightloss surgery has been featured in Scientific American Mind, Time magazine, and The Guardian.[8][9][10]

Awards

Broadbent was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2021.[11] The Society said "One of her most notable contributions is the development and testing of healthcare robots, especially for improving outcomes in rest-home and dementia care and chronic illness...this is innovative interdisciplinary work of exceptional quality".[11]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Elizabeth Broadbent academic profile". University of Auckland profiles. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  2. ↑ Broadbent, Elizabeth Anne (2002). "The effects of stress, social support and beliefs on wound healing following surgery". auckland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Broadbent, Elizabeth Anne (2002). "The effects of stress, social support and beliefs on wound healing following surgery (Master's thesis)". auckland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  4. ↑ Broadbent, Elizabeth Anne (2005). "New approaches to the assessment of illness perceptions (doctoral thesis)". auckland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Inaugural Lecture Series 2019 – Professor Elizabeth Broadbent – 2019-08-06 August 2019". EDC Browse. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Kellett, Anna (15 February 2018). "Companion robots could help our rural schools". phys.org. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "Help that isn't human". NZ Herald. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  8. ↑ Rodriguez, Tori (1 November 2013). "Writing Can Help Injuries Heal Faster". Scientific American Mind. 24 (5): 17.
  9. ↑ Szalavitz, Maia (13 July 2013). "How Writing Heals Wounds — Of Both the Mind and Body". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "Can you write your way to happiness?". the Guardian. 11 June 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  11. 1 2 "Researchers and scholars at the top of their fields elected as Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 5 June 2022.

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