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Aisha Holloway i s a Professor of Nursing Studies and Head of Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She works in developing and testing alcohol interventions to improve the health of male prisoners in the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom. As a Registered Adult Nurse she has clinical experience in general medicine, acute medical admissions and intensive care.

Early life and education
Holloway was born in Scotland and studied for a Bachelor of Science at the University of Abertay. She then went on to undertake doctoral studies at Glasgow Caledonian University. Her PhD thesis was entitled: "An evaluation of self-efficacy and minimal interventions for potential problem drinkers in a general hospital setting". She also studied at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

Career
Holloway holds a Clinical Academic Research Fellowship from the Chief Scientist Office for a programme of research to reduce the risks and harms of alcohol in society and to influence and shape alcohol policy. This includes the development and evaluation of nurse led alcohol brief interventions (ABIs) across a wide range of health related settings, the education and teaching development of the nursing workforce in responding to alcohol-related harm , and the use of innovative multi-disciplinary, public engagement methodologies for co-production of alcohol research. She won an Established Early Career Research Award in 2017 from the Scottish Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Awards.

Holloway has previously had a secondment to the Alcohol Policy Team at Scottish Government as an Honorary Nurse Consultant for Alcohol Research and Policy in NHS Lothian. She also Chairs the Scottish Alcohol Research Network. She attained a Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholarship which enabled her to undertake a leadership programme at Harvard Business School and visit US Congress, Washington DC to work with nurse leaders in the United States.

In 2016, Holloway also submitted written evidence on political leadership in nursing to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on global health, chaired by Lord Nigel Crisp. This evidence was subequently used in the Triple Impact report published by this group. In 2017, she was invited to submit written and oral evidence to the Scottish Health and Sports Committee at Scottish Parliament on the round table evidence session as part of the Prisoner Health Inquiry. She received a Cavell Star Award in 2019 recognising inspirational leaders in nursing.