In 2024 Battye was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to performing arts education.

[1] She also taught and managed the Bachelor of Māori Performing Arts programme at Te Wānanga O Aotearoa.

[2] Battye's plays include The Shadow of the Valley (with Thelma Eakin), first performed in 1977 in Greymouth and published by Oxford University Press in 1980, which reconstructs the 1896 Brunner Mine disaster.

[1] Battye and Eakin also wrote a historical novel based on the play, The Mine’s Afire, which was shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2010.

[3] In the 2024 New Year Honours, Battye was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to performing arts education.