Deborah Jowitt


Genre:

  • Adult Fiction
  • Flash Fiction

Skills:

  • Academic Writing
  • Research

Branch:

Northland

Location:

Whangarei Heads

Publications:


These Hills Are Tapu

Shoal Bay Press, 1990.

Environmental history of the Tapu Valley, Thames Coast. 52 pages.

Pav Deconstructed: Pavlova through the eyes of everyday Kiwis

Pavlova Press, 2023. 

'Pot-luck Pavlovas'.  

 

Flash Frontier

Chicken Lickin'

December 2019: HUMOUR. 

Flash fiction, 250 words.

Flash Frontier

Swimming Lessons from a Whale-man.

December 20210: MICRO.

Flash Frontier

The sea has lost its memory.

October 2022: INSECTS

Flash Frontier

The one that got away.

July 2023: MOANA_OCEAN

Flash Frontier

Flux.

July 2022: AWA.

Flash Frontier

The photograph.

March 2024: MARIRE / QUIET.

Flash Frontier

Burr.

October 2023: RAKAU/WOOD.

Te Kohu, Poems

fictionland, Kohukohu, 2023.

Edited by Ann-Marie Houng-Lee.

'Bright bodies'. 

Changing Landscapes, Flash and micro fiction from Northland

JOP, 2023.

The sea has lost its memory.

Regenesis.

Taken.

Flash Frontier

October, 2023: MARA/GARDEN

'Regenesis'.

You Might Want to Read This

JOP, 2021. 

Chicken Lickin'.

The Facts of Life.

From the Island.

Fast Fibres Poetry 10

JOP (Jeff Oliver Print) Ltd. 2023.

'Taemaro Bay'.

Journal of Hospital Infection

Jowitt DM, Morris, AJ. ‘The questionable value of microbiological sampling when commissioning new operating theatres’, Journal of Hospital Infection, 59, 3, March 2005, p.267, (Letter).

Journal of Hospital Infection

Roberts SA, McGuiness CA, Birse L, Jowitt DM, Morris AJ. Reducing the time interval for screening for methicillin-resistant  Staphylococcus aureus’. Journal of Hospital Infection, 60, 1, May 2005, p.86, (Letter).

New Zealand Medical Journal

Ritchie S, Jowitt DM, Roberts SA. The Auckland City Hospital Device Point Prevalence Survey 2005: utilisation and infectious complications of intravascular and urinary devices. New Zealand Medical Journal, 2007 Aug 24;120(1260):U2683.

Antimicrobial Resistance Infection Control

Roberts SA, Jowitt DM. New Zealand Health Quality & Safety Commission infection prevention and control programmes: evidence for sustained improvement in infection prevention interventions. Antimicrobial Resistance Infection Control (2015) 4(Suppl 1): P58. https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-4-S1-P58.

New Zealand Medical Journal

 Freeman JT, Dawson L, Jowitt DM, White M, Callard H, Sieczkowski C, Kuriyan R, Roberts SA. The impact of the Hand Hygiene New Zealand programme on hand hygiene practices in New Zealand’s public hospitals. NZ Med J, 14th October 2016, Vol 129 No 1443.

New Zealand Medical Journal

Morris AJ, Roberts SA, Grae N, Jowitt DM. Getting surgical antibiotic prophylaxis right, lessons from the National Orthopaedic Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme: a call for action! New Zealand Medical Journal, 2019 Feb 22;132(1490):55-58.

New Zealand Medical Journal

Jowitt DM. The 'H-Bug' epidemic: lessons from antibiotic-resistant staphylococcal outbreaks in New Zealand hospitals from 1955-1963. New Zealand Medical Journal, 2019 Sep 20;132(1502):84-95.

Australian Natural History

Jarvis DM (text),  Startin S (photographs). Weaving with Nature, Australian Natural History, Vol 19, No 5, January-March 1978, pp.174-7.

New Zealand Gardener

Jowitt DM (story), Gill Hanley (photographs) . Rapaura - watergarden supreme. New Zealand Gardener, March 1992, pp.56-58. 

Next

Jowitt DM (story), Jenny Scown (photographs). Babes in the Wood, Next, 1992, p.42-45.

NZ Doctor

Jowitt DM. Bad lifting technique wrecks nurses' backs. NZ Doctor, 4 February 1993, p.21.

Next

Jowitt DM. History in the making. Next, December 1993, p.96-9.

The H-Bug Epidemic: The Impact of Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococci on New Zealand Society and Health 1955-1963

MSc Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004.  

Government Policy Relating to Hepatitis B in New Zealand’

PhD thesis, University of Auckland, 2010.