Allison Margaret Kirkman is a New Zealand sociology academic with interests in 'death and dying; gender, sexuality, ageing and health; health care work and workers.' In 2014 she was appointed the Vice Provost (Academic and Equity) at Victoria University of Wellington before moving to become Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Division of Arts, Law, Psychology and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato.[1][2] She was made an Emeritus Professor at the University of Waikato in 2022 in recognition of her work to set up a nursing programme at the university.[3]
Kirkman's 1996 PhD thesis was on Ways of Being Religious: Lesbians and Christianity.[4]