Elizabeth C. Smythe is a New Zealand midwifery and nursing academic, and is an emeritus professor at the Auckland University of Technology.
Smythe trained as a nurse and a midwife, and then in 1998 completed a PhD titled Being safe in childbirth: a hermeneutic interpretation of the narratives of women and practitioners at Massey University, supervised by Cheryl Benn and Valerie Fleming.
[1][2] Smythe joined the faculty of the School of Clinical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor in 2013.
[3] At the time of her retirement, Smythe was one of AUT's longest serving academics, and "one of the University's most successful graduate research supervisors".
[3] Smythe was highly commended in the 2014 AUT Vice-Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence in Research.