Pauline Stansfield

Pauline Stansfield
MNZM JP
Stansfield in 2020
Born(1939-09-23)23 September 1939
Birkenhead, New Zealand
Died16 July 2022(2022-07-16) (aged 82)
Auckland, New Zealand
Occupations
  • Disability advocate
  • piano teacher
  • writer

Pauline Alice Roycroft Stansfield MNZM JP (23 September 1939 – 16 July 2022) was a New Zealand disability rights advocate. Having trained as a nurse, in 1969 she was paralysed from the waist down after a bus accident in Russia. From the 1970s she became involved with organisations supporting people with disabilities including the Paraplegic Association and the North Shore Disabled Persons Assembly, and advocated for the rights of people with disabilities. She also worked as a piano teacher. In 2017 she published her autobiography, Russia Changed My Life.