Melanie is a health and social care researcher and co-leads the Care Across the Life Course Research Group within the Directorate of Nursing and Midwifery. Melanie has specific research interests in the pressure redistributing properties of seating, tissue viability, and interprofessional working and learning. She is currently leading on 3 research studies 1) examining the impact of interprofessional student training care homes on students, staff and residents, 2) exploring the prevalence of skin tears in mammography and 3) evaluating the impact of nurse led diabetic foot clinics and educational programmes on patients with type 2 diabetes in Uganda.

Melanie has also undertaken research in order to provide an evidence base for products used in the twenty four hour management of pressure ulcers (chairs and night time sleep systems) and affective domain development of student nurses. Melanie co-led an amendment to the UK Tissue Viability Society Seating Guidelines with service users and is using this work to impact policy and practice. Experienced in mixed methods of enquiry, working with practitioners and commerce to develop research for the use in the clinical environment.