Dr Alice Livings completed a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Chemistry at the University of Queensland, before moving to Sydney where she completed her medical degree with First Class Honours at the University of Sydney. She worked in a number of hospitals in the greater Sydney area prior to undertaking her advanced training in Haematology at Royal North Shore and Liverpool Hospitals.

Following completion of her training she was the Pitney Fellow at St George Hospital. In 2021 she moved back to Queensland and commenced work at QML Pathology as a consultant haematologist as well as practising as a clinical haematologist.