[1] Dalziel was Vice Chancellor (Academic) of the University of Auckland from 1999 to 2009.
[2] In 2013, she was appointed chair of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa's Research Advisory Panel.
[3] In 2014, Dalziel established the Ellen Castle Undergraduate Scholarship at the University of Auckland, in memory of her mother.
[4] In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dalziel was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education.
[5] In 1976, Dalziel married fellow historian Keith Sinclair.