Dr Amber McLeod is a Lecturer in Education at Monash University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology at RMIT, and has worked as a microbiologist before completing a Masters of Science in Education at La Trobe University, as well as a Masters in Linguistics at Monash University. She was awarded a PhD scholarship as part of the Digital Divas project. Her PhD thesis examined the relationship between community attitudes to ICT and the outcomes of the Digital Divas Intervention Project.