Alison is the inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. She has held executive leadership, education, and research roles at Adelaide Nursing School at University of Adelaide, Royal College of Nursing, Aalborg University, Denmark, Oxford Brookes University, QUT, and University of Oxford. Alison has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and in 2014 was acknowledged in the Academic Ranking of World Universities list of high cite world researchers for her work on knowledge translation.