Alison Holland
Interim Manager, UX Research at Rovio Entertainment
Sweden
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Top SchoolAlison Holland is an experienced UX and Games User Researcher with nine years of delivering mixed-methods research across gaming, e-learning, EdTech and MedTech, now serving as Interim Manager for UX Research at Rovio. She translates qualitative and quantitative evidence into actionable, time-sensitive insights that have driven measurable business outcomes—examples include boosting season pass purchases by 20% and enabling a 10% YoY growth through tech-stability work. Alison combines strategic research leadership (building company-wide research processes and repositories) with hands-on skills in R, text mining and BI dashboarding to shorten analysis cycles and empower cross-functional teams. She also mentors and builds research capability, having led and coached teams of researchers while recruiting senior hires. A former academic researcher in social cognitive neuroscience, she brings an unusual blend of rigorous experimental method and storytelling to make user needs both compelling and operational.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, Master’s Degree Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience at Freie Universität Berlin3 A-Levels Human Biology Chemistry Geography, 3 A-Levels Human Biology Chemistry Geography at Hyde Clarendon 6th Form CollegeSchool of Mind and Brain Psychology, School of Mind and Brain Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinBachelor’s Degree Psychology and Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology and Philosophy at Lancaster University10 GCSE's 10 Grades A* - C achieved, 10 GCSE's 10 Grades A* - C achieved at Longdendale High School
English, German, SwedishGithub contributions (5)
alisoncholland/Meta-analysis-code
Sep 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:52 commits, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
alisoncholland/R-CRAN-packages-and-functions
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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