Adjunct Associate Professor Sue Field

Biography

PhD(i) Candidate UNE
Adjunct Associate Professor at CSU;
Director – Australian Centre for Elder Law Pty Ltd.

Qualifications

1997 - Bachelor of Laws - University of Tasmania;
1993 - Master of Educational Administration - University of New England;
1989 - Bachelor of Arts  - University of New England;
1982 - Diploma Nurse Education - Armidale College of Advanced Education.

Teaching Areas

2021 - Taught Elder Law in T3 at UNE;
2018 - 2020 - Co-ordinated inaugural Elder Law Industry Placement subject, (the last four semesters);
2004 – 2020 - Co-ordinating and teaching the subject Elder Law to undergraduate law students at WSU. To meet demand the subject is offered three semesters a year.
2017 - Preparation of modules Bachelor of Laws – CSU.

Research Interests

Funded Research

Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre – Supported Decision Making Project –A Lead Investigators in a three year multi-institutional project – completed June 2019;

SWSPHN – Enduring Guardianship and Medical Practitioners – completed September 2017;

COTA Home Care Today Project – Legal issues associated with CDC – completed March 2015;

Invited member of Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre - (Dealing with Cognitive and Related Functional Decline in Older People). My activity ‘Policies and Practices of Financial Institutions in respect of Substitute Decision Making Instruments’ was selected in the first round of internal submissions and was funded for a twelve month period and was completed in December, 2014;

New South Wales Health Department, applied research – 2007;

New South Wales Department Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC) applied research - Sydney, 2006;

Law Foundation of Tasmania, Joint Research project with Tasmanian magistrates Court examining access to justice, a study of the Magistrates Court of Tasmania, April, 2004.

Publications

Books

Sue Field, Karen Williams, Carolyn Sappideen (ed) ‘Elder Law – A Guide to Working with Older Australians’ 2018, Federation Press;

Book chapters

Field, S ‘Human rights and residential care for older persons – an Australian perspective’ in Meenan, Rees and Doron ‘Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons – International perspectives’ Routledge, London, 2016;

Refereed Articles
Sinclair, C., Bajic-Smith, J., Blake, M., Clayton, J. M., Bucks, R. S., Field, S., . . . Kurrle, S. (in press). Professionals' views and experiences in supporting decision-making involvement for people living with dementia. Dementia.

Sinclair, C., Blake, M., & Field, S. (2018). Supported decision-making in aged care: A policy development guideline for aged care providers in Australia. Retrieved from http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/cdpc/documents/resources/SDM-Policy-Guidelines.pdf

Sinclair, C., Field, S., Blake, M., & Radoslovich, H. (in press). An examination of organisational policies for healthcare and lifestyle decision-making among Australian aged care providers. Australasian Journal on Ageing.

Sappideen, C and Field, S  ‘Anti-Discrimination – Some Observations from Downunder, the Australian Experience on Age Discrimination’ Journal of International Ageing Law and Policy Stetson University College of Law, Volume 3, Summer 2009, pp 169-185

Field, S ‘Dangers in Aged Care: The tension between the rights of care recipients and those of aged care providers’ Canadian Journal of Elder Law, Vol. 1, Issue 1, December, 2008 pp 5-28;

Field, S ‘Issues Facing Older Australians, Legal, Financial and Societal’ Journal of International Ageing Law and Policy Stetson University College of Law, Volume 1, Fall 2005 pp 101-120

Non-refereed
Field, S ‘Organ Donation – What’s in it for Me?’ The Justice of the Peace, Vol 53, No 2, July 2013;

Field, S ‘Moving into a Residential Aged Care Facility’ The Justice of the Peace, Vol 52, No 2, July 2012;

Field, S ‘Where to Live and What to Look for  . . .’ The Justice of the Peace, Vol 51, No. 2, July 2011;

Field, S ‘Advance Care Directives’ The Justice of the Peace, Vol 51, No 1 March 2011;

Field, S ‘Who gets what and why –when you don’t have a will Amendments to the Succession Act 2006 (NSW)’ The Justice of the Peace, Volume 50, Number 2, July 2010;

Field, S ‘Making Provision for Pets on Death – ours not theirs’ The Justice of the Peace, March, 2009;

Sappideen, C & Field, S ‘Legal issues affecting older persons’ About the House, House of Representatives, March, 2007.

Memberships

2021 – current  Member, Rural Issues Committee, Law Society of New South Wales