About
​Alison Donaldson

WRITING COACH AND WRITER

Working life

• Independent writing coach since 1990. I work for people from all walks of life: read more
• Narrative writer: from 2004, I spent several years helping Macmillan Cancer Support (a UK charity) capture the story of its work with groups of doctors, patients and nurses. This culminated in a co-authored book, "Communities of Influence" (2011). 
  
  

Employment
1990 to present:  self-employed
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​1987-1990: Communications Specialist with McKinsey & Company in London.

1984-7: Consumer research. Writer of reports on food, drink, public services and pollution for Which? magazine, London.

1976-83 (my Berlin years): undertook research into unemployment policy for the International Institute of Management Berlin; later moved to the Free University Berlin to do research into shiftworking; spent last two years in Berlin as a freelance journalist and translator.
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1975-76: Straight out of university. Research assistant to Professor Santosh Mukherjee at Political and Economic Planning (later swallowed by the Policy Studies Institute), London


For my story as a writer, see Writing Life.​

​Education
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2003: Doctor of Management in organisational change
(with Professor Ralph Stacey at the University of Hertfordshire, UK)

First degrees in economics (Bath 1975) and sociology (Berlin 1980)
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Fluent German and French

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