I am an Adjunct Research Fellow at UniSA Justice and Society. My work involves research, consulting and policy development in the areas of advance care directives, decision-making capacity and ethical decision making at the end of life including resuscitation decisions for older people. I am also an advocate for examining road trauma, in particular pedestrian safety, as an issue of social and medical ethics.
I was the Deputy Chair of the SA Advance Directive Review Committee (the recommendations of which formed the basis of the Advance Care Directives Act 2013 (SA)), and also Deputy Chair of the End-of-Life Working Group which developed the Resuscitation Plan 7 Step Pathway. I was appointed to the End-of-Life Ministerial Advisory... Read more
About me
I am an Adjunct Research Fellow at UniSA Justice and Society. My work involves research, consulting and policy development in the areas of advance care directives, decision-making capacity and ethical decision making at the end of life including resuscitation decisions for older people. I am also an advocate for examining road trauma, in particular pedestrian safety, as an issue of social and medical ethics.
I was the Deputy Chair of the SA Advance Directive Review Committee (the recommendations of which formed the basis of the Advance Care Directives Act 2013 (SA)), and also Deputy Chair of the End-of-Life Working Group which developed the Resuscitation Plan 7 Step Pathway. I was appointed to the End-of-Life Ministerial Advisory Committee in 2013, the End of Life Care Strategy Program Board in 2017 and the Advance Care Planning Oversight Group in 2020.
I served on the Guardianship Board and I am a research consultant with the Public Advocate (OPA) on Supported Decision-Making Projects, including as principal researcher for 2 Law Foundation grants examining the practice of supported decision-making as well as the Life Time Support Project. I am a research consultant on the NDIS-funded Living my Life Capacity Building Project with SAHMRI and OPA and the Supported Decision Making Project with the Department of Human Services.
I run seminars and lectures on advance care directives for health professionals and the community, including lectures organised by Members of Parliament for their constituents. Since the implementation of the ACD Act in SA I have developed a model of three workshops to assist people in completing their advance care directive document. I have also developed a non-statutory document My Life Decisions for people who are unable to complete the legal advance care directive document.
I am also a former director and a current active member of Bushland Conservation Company Pty Ltd.
About me
About me
Master of Science Flinders University
Master of Primary Health Care Flinders University
Bachelor of Arts The University of Adelaide
Certificate of General Nursing Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
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| 2021 |
Open access
13
11
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| 2018 |
1
|
| 2015 |
Open access
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| 2014 |
Open access
8
9
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2010 |
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2012 |
Open access
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| 2011 |
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| 2009 |
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
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| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
|
| 2021 |
Open access
13
11
|
| 2019 |
7
7
|
| 2019 |
Open access
6
6
|
| 2018 |
1
|
| 2014 |
Open access
8
9
|
| 2013 |
Open access
6
6
|
| 2013 |
Open access
39
40
|
| 2013 |
Open access
7
|
| 2012 |
15
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| 2012 |
Open access
1
1
|
| 2008 |
9
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2015 |
Open access
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| 2011 |
Open access
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Margaret Brown, ‘We all have to walk across roads — why aren’t pedestrians a focus of road safety?’, The Conversation, 8 June 2021.
Margaret Brown, 'Waiting for a break: Why road policy leaves pedestrians stranded', InDaily, 2 March 2022.
Research
SA Health Advance Care Planning Oversight Group, Ministerial Advisory Committee on End of Life (SA Minister of Health); Advisory Committee Member, Palliative Care Council of South Australia; Deputy Chair, End of Life Decision-Making Working Group, Dept of Health SA; Project Committee, Supported Decision-Making Project, Office of the Public Advocate; Deputy Chair, Advance Directive Review Committee, Government of South Australia.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Australia SA | AUSTRALIA |
| Central Adelaide Palliative Care Service | AUSTRALIA |
| Flinders Medical Centre | AUSTRALIA |
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| Legal Services Commission | AUSTRALIA |
| Palliative Care Council of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Royal District Nursing Service SA | AUSTRALIA |
| Royal District Nursing Society | AUSTRALIA |
| SA Health | AUSTRALIA |
| Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN) | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Alberta | CANADA |
| University of British Columbia | CANADA |
| University of Calgary | CANADA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Director, Bushland Conservation Company; Panel Member, SA Health Practitioners’ Tribunal; Deputy Chair, Respecting Patient Choices Reference Group and Ethical Legal Committee, Queen Elizabeth Hospital; Guardianship Board of South Australia; Alzheimer's Association (Australia and South Australia); Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law; International Ethics Associations: Hastings Center, New York, Joint Centre for Bioethics, Uni of Toronto, Canada, International Bioethics Association; refugee support groups in South Australia.
Ethics and bioethics, end-of-life issues, advance care directives, resuscitation decisions, palliative care, ageing and gerontology, research ethics
