Alison J. Tierney

Alison Joan Tierney, born on 4 May 1948, is a British nurse researcher and educator. She was among the first graduates of the integrated nursing degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1971, and in 1976 became one of the earliest British nurses to finish a doctorate in a university nursing department. In 1980, with Nancy Roper and Winifred Logan and building on the work of Virginia Henderson, she helped develop the activities of living nursing model, published in The Elements of Nursing and widely translated. She held a personal chair in nursing research at Edinburgh, directed its Nursing Research Unit, and in 2002 moved to the University of Adelaide as professor and head of clinical nursing. From 2003 to 2011 she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. She was appointed a CBE in 2002, and in 2018 was named among 70 of the most influential nurses in 70 years of the NHS.