Melanie’s research investigates how practitioners use technology to deliver healthcare and integrates this into her curriculum. She evaluates how technology can be used to facilitate learning (eLearning) in the health context and how to better equip health professionals for a health sector that increasingly includes eHealth methods and interventions.

With a focus on building student leadership, Melanie’s scholarship of learning and teaching has included building opportunities for undergraduate research (in large scale programs as well as mentoring small groups of junior undergraduate students in research) and peer mentoring.