Alison is responsible for the management of the Short Courses and overseeing the financial operations of the School.

Alison graduated with a BA in Architecture from Cambridge University in 2006 and completed a Foundation Year in Art & Design at Camberwell College of Arts in 2009. She worked as an Architectural Assistant in London and at the Royal Drawing School on their Young Artists Programme and Public Programmes. In 2013 she moved to Edinburgh and started working for Leith School of Art.