A former secondary school mathematics teacher, Alison has worked on curriculum and teaching development projects involving technologies for the past 35 years. She has supported thousands of teachers and hundreds of Edtech companies to develop more evidence-informed approaches to inform their work and practices. Alison now leads the global research on more democratic, scalable and sustainable ways to create more educationally impactful edtech that truly serves teachers, learners and communities. She is co-founder of the Global EdTech Testbed Network, a community that is sharing best practices, guidelines and policy briefs to support Testbed practitioners to achieve their impact goals.