Supervisor and has supervised honours, masters and PhD students undertaking applied clinical research as well as scholarly teaching and learning projects. Her practise background is generalist acute care nursing. Her research program has for the past several years concentrated upon Hospital in the Home (HITH) initiatives. Using a quality and safety framework Professor Dukes research has focussed on the practises that underpin the development of alternative care delivery models such as HITH. In addition she has a body of teaching and learning research focussed curriculum issues, problem-based learning and clinical education methods. As part of a team she has a number of successful teaching and learning grants to investigate student learning outcomes using pedagogies such as Team Based Learning and flexible teaching approaches such as the Vitual Maternity Clinic