Professor Alison Kitson served as inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia, from 2017 to 2024 and as foundational Director of the Caring Futures Institute from 2019-2024. In her academic and research role, she is recognised internationally as a leading research translation scientist, nurse leader and champion of improving person-centred fundamental care research and practice. She has held several joint appointments between academia and practice in both the UK and Australia.

She co-authored Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare (Harvey G. and Kitson A., 2015), has published over 300 peer reviewed articles and book chapters in top nursing and translational science journals and is ranked in the top 2% of most cited researchers in her field in the world. In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science (AAHMS) and in 2022 she was awarded a Distinguished Matthew Flinders Professorship from Flinders University. She has several international and Australian visiting professorships and honorary doctorates from Sweden and Denmark. In 2025 she was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Research Hall of Fame for her transformational research in person-centred fundamental care and knowledge translation.