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Associate Professor Kathy Holloway is the Associate Dean (Academic) for Te Pukenga Wai | Faculty of Education, Health, and Psychological Sciences at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. She earned her Doctor of Nursing from the University of Technology Sydney in 2011, Master of Health Science with Distinction from Charles Sturt University in 2005, and Postgraduate Certificate in Online Education from the University of Southern Queensland in 2006. Recognized as a Senior Fellow (SFHEA) of Te Arawai Ako/Advance HE since 2025, Holloway has a distinguished career in nursing education and leadership. She directed the School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice at Victoria University of Wellington from 2016 to 2024, served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Health from January to September 2021, and as Associate Dean (Academic, Equity and Students) from 2018 to 2021. Prior to this, she was Dean of the Faculty of Health at Whitireia Community Polytechnic from 2013 to 2016.

Holloway's research specializes in nursing workforce planning, specialist nursing frameworks, and medicine, nursing, and health curriculum and pedagogy. Her doctoral work produced a specialist nursing framework for New Zealand, adopted by national specialty nursing groups to define their roles in addressing healthcare needs. She holds leadership positions including co-chair of the National Nursing Leadership group, Fellow and past elected Board member of the College of Nurses Aotearoa, and past Deputy Chair of the Nursing Council of New Zealand as a ministerial appointee for seven years. Key publications include 'How to grow our own: An evaluation of preceptorship in New Zealand graduate nurse programmes' (Contemporary Nurse, 2013), 'Entry to nursing practice preceptor education and support: could we do it better?' (Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 2012), 'Training needs analysis—The essential first step for continuing professional development design' (Nurse Education in Practice, 2018), 'Specialist nursing framework for New Zealand: A missing link in workforce planning' (Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 2009), and 'Core components of the rural nurse specialist role in New Zealand' (Rural and Remote Health, 2018). Her scholarship, with over 500 citations, informs national policy on sustainable nursing workforces and enhances patient experiences through advanced nursing expertise.