Alison Leary PhD, MSc, BSc

Prof. Leary primarily undertakes research but also teaches on a range of post graduate programmes including the Masters in Advanced Practice. She also runs masterclassess for those in practice and supervises post graduate research students at LSBU. Her interests are in the complexity of healthcare, math models and data science.
After spending ten years in science Prof. Leary undertook an RN diploma at The Nightingale School at St Thomas Hospital (now Kings College London). She attained a Masters in Biomedical Science (Haematology) and worked in acute Haematology services. Prof. Leary obtained a PhD in Clinical Medicine from the University of London (Royal Free & University College School of Medicine).
Prof. Leary writes regularly for the general, trade and academic press. In 2015 she was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and in 2016 a Fellow of the Queen Nursing Institute and a Winston Churchill Fellow for which she examined high reliability organisations looking at safety.