Background
Alison Elliot was born in Edinburgh in 1948.
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She was educated at Bathgate Academy, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sussex.
Career
An elder and session clerk at Greyfriars, Tollbooth and Highland Kirk in Edinburgh, she was also the first non-minister to hold this post since George Buchanan in 1567. Her professional career is in psychology, but her public profile has been chiefly through her church work. She was Research Associate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh 1973–1974, then Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lancaster 1974–1976 and at the University of Edinburgh 1977–1985.
She is the author of two publications: Child Language (1981) and The Miraculous Everyday (2005).
The Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire was conferred upon her for her ecumenical work. Since 2007 she has been Convener of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Membership
She is a founding board member of the Palestine Festival of Literature.
