B.A. (UNE), M.Ed.Admin (UNE), LLB (Unitas) Sue Field is an Australian Legal Practitioner who has worked both in practice and academe in the area of Elder Law for close to twenty years. During this time Sue has researched, consulted, taught, published and presented widely in this emerging speciality. Sue is currently a member of the following NSW Law Society's Committees, Elder Law, Capacity and Succession and Rural Issues; a member of the ALRC Elder Abuse Advisory Committee, a Distinguished Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Elder Law, a Research Fellow at UWA and a Lead Investigator in the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre. Sue is co-editor of the recently released text on ‘Elder Law – A Guide for working with Older Australians’ Federation Press, 2018. Sue is also co-authoring a lay person's guide to elder law due for publication early 2019. Three year Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre funded project on Supported Decision Making producing several refereed publications, webinars, policy guidelines for aged care providers and resources on supported decision making. Note: Bene figures and years of grants are approximate.
Adjunct Staff
Associate Professor Susan Field
Research Project
External Grants
Year Grant
2014
Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre $132,000
‘Policies and Practices of Financial Institutions in relation to substitute decision making instruments’ (Principal Researcher WSU);
2015
Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre $600,000
‘Supported Decision Making’ (Lead Investigator UWA);
2016
SWSPHN $25,000
‘Knowledge of General Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals in respect of Enduring Guardianship and Advance Care Directives’ (Principal Researcher, WSU).