Alison is an accomplished sport scientist and high performance manager, with extensive experience across a range of summer, winter and professional sports in both the Australian and UK high performance systems. Most recently Alison has worked as the Performance Support Manager for Equestrian Australia.

Alison first joined the AIS in 2004 as a Postgraduate Scholar, delivering performance analysis and biomechanics support across a number of AIS programs and completing her PhD in 2010 in elite women’s football. She has worked at Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games, and led a Research Team on behalf of the International Paralympic Committee to collect data on para-swimmers that informed the classification system. Alison has 25 publications, has supervised and mentored PhD students, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at Southern Cross University.