Alison is an Academic Program Director for undergraduate programs at the Bendigo and Mildura campuses. She has worked as an academic in three universities since working as a secondary teacher: La Trobe University, University of Edinburgh and University of Melbourne. As a teacher educator Alison has worked with students at post-graduate, graduate and undergraduate levels mainly in the fields of: curriculum development and professional practice, outdoor environmental education, sustainability education, physical education and health education. Alison has supervised numerous Honours and Masters student theses related to these areas of expertise. She has worked with colleagues on several research projects, publishing journal and conference papers mainly in the areas of outdoor and environmental education and sustainability literacy. Her PhD study titled: Re-making futures: A case study of outdoor sustainability education teachers, investigated pre-service teachers' professional development through an interdisciplinary team-based school teaching placement focusing on sustainability education.