Elizabeth Morton

• Published research findings in high-impact academic journals
• Collaborated with, and learned from, established researches in social sciences and psychiatry

Morton, Elizabeth. (2024). Lived Experience of Group-based Cognitive Remediation Therapy. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Morton, E.K., McKenzie, S., Cooper, A. Every-Palmer, S., Jenkin, G. (2022). Gender and intersecting vulnerabilities on the mental health unit: Rethinking the dilemma. Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Cooper, A., Jenkin, G., Morton, E., Peterson D., McKenzie, S. K. (2022). ‘We have to band together': service user experiences of naturally occurring peer support on the acute mental health unit. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online.

And co-authored an article for The Conversation:

Jenkin G, Morton E, McIntosh J, 2022. Mental blocks: How better design of acute mental health units could aid recovery. The Conversation, December 21.

Published three poetry collections:

Naming the beasts, 2022 Otago University Press

This is your real name, 2020 Otago University Press

Wolf, 2017 Mākaro Press

Been published in various anthologies, journals and magazines, locally and in Australia, Canada, the USA, the UK, Ireland and Jamaica. Won and placed in prizes for short fiction

and poetry.

Read at the Auckland Writers Festival, the Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland libraries, and been interviewed on various platforms including RNZ.

First-hand experience of mental health diagnostics, pharmacology, private and public sector services, inpatient and outpatient services, early psychosis intervention (EPI), peer support, respite care, supported accommodation, rehabilitative practice, modalities of therapy including CBT, ACT, DBT, narrative and family systems therapies.

Guided students through the Introduction to Poetry course.

Critiqued creative and academic responses to assignments, using positive reinforcement style feedback to encourage and build confidence.