Alison is a Research Associate at Newcastle University, her research focuses on harms and crimes impacting wildlife and the environment, with a particular interest in restorative and ecological justice.

Recent projects have investigated the overlap between legal and illegal wildlife trade and corporate environmental crimes (see recent projects). 

She holds a PhD in green criminology from Northumbria University (UK) and has conducted research into wildlife trade and crime with a focus on fisheries crime, inter/national environmental and wildlife law, and wildlife forensics.