Jennifer Allison is an Associate Director of Nursing and Midwifery at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Lead Matron of the NIHR Southampton Research Facility. She leads a large team caring for paediatric and adult patients, and healthy participants, in early phase complex experimental medicine studies. On the Senior Management Team of the UKCRF Network, she is Workforce/Education Theme Lead, building and maximising relationships across the NIHR infrastructure. She is the immediate Past- President of the International Association of Clinical Research Nurses and remains on their Board. She was presented with their Distinguished Clinical Research Nurse Award in 2011. She has a wealth of experience in articulating the unique contribution that clinical research nurses and their teams make to global healthcare in publications and national/international presentations.