Alison Roberts is a research fellow at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research focused on the implementation of cognitive services in community pharmacy and facilitating practice change, and formed part of an international research collaboration. A practising community pharmacist, Alison has also held a number of positions including manager of a community pharmacy, project pharmacist at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) NSW, and practitioner teacher at the University of Sydney. A member of PSA NSW Council since 2000, Alison currently holds an executive position on PSAs National Council. In 2005, Alison was appointed as PSAs representative on the Professional Programs and Services Advisory Committee for the 4th Community Pharmacy Agreement.