Alison Hutchinson, PhD, RN, BAppSci (Adv Nsg), MBioeth, Cert of Midwifery, is Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Deakin University, Director of the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research in the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University, and holds a Chair in Nursing at Monash Health.

Her primary research interest centers on improving care through knowledge translation. As director of the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research she provides strategic direction for the Centre’s more than 40 scholars undertaking research in the areas of patient safety, patient experience and workforce development. She is one of only a few Australian nurses to have successfully completed a formal postdoctoral fellowship program overseas, having trained at the University of Alberta, Canada. Professor Hutchinson received a national fellowship in knowledge translation award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a provincial fellowship award from Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.

She brings expertise in the conduct of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research and has attracted competitive research funding from a range of funding bodies. Internationally recognized for her implementation science and knowledge translation research, she has published more than 145 articles, co-authored several book chapters, and is an associate editor for Implementation Science. She was awarded the title of Alfred Deakin Professor, the highest honor Deakin University can bestow upon a member of the academic staff.

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