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Alison leads on knowledge mobilisation, specialising in translating complex evidence. Alison’s innovative, analytical and collaborative approach helps health service leaders to make sense of implications to inform policymaking and senior-level strategic decision-making. She has extensive expertise in literature searching, evidence synthesis and knowledge management. Alison recently completed an MSc in Translational Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation drew on diffusion of innovations theory to explore how adopters make sense of and adapt innovations to local contexts.
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- Evidence reviews
- Knowledge mobilisation
- Learning and development
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Alison brings 30 years’ experience supporting evidence-informed decision making. She actively engages in professional networks and has contributed workshops and papers at a range of conferences, including Evidence Live, Health Services Research UK and the European Association of Health Information and Libraries. Alison is also one of a team organising the UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum, an annual event providing a creative and collaborative space for researchers and practitioners.
Recent Strategy Unit projects have included:
- Developing an evidence map to inform demand and capacity planning for new hospitals
- Exploring evidence to inform improvement in MSK services
- Capturing good practice on CORE20PLUS5 priorities
- Mapping the evidence on demand and capacity in renal services
