Marlene Muller's fields of research range from Education and International Human Resource Management to Public Leadership, specifically focusing on leader-follower relationships.

Marlene Muller is the UG Director of Studies at Heriot-Watt University, Dubai International Academic City, UAE. Her core responsibility is the managing of nine degree programmes in the fields of Accounting, Finance and International Business Management. Marlene’s primary passion is to ensure a positive student experience by strengthening their skills in innovative thinking, leadership and diversity management that will allow them to grow in confidence and succeed in the job markets. Her roles and responsibilities are therefore focusing on admissions, mentoring, time tabling, alignment, student retention, staffing, coaching, student liaison, operations, quality control and workshops.

Higher Education: International branch campuses; MOOC’s; academic quality; quality culture, quality management; academic integrity; mobile learning; competing values framework.

International HRM: expatriate career development; digital HRM, diversity management; employer branding.

Public Leadership: social self-defence;  leader-follower relationships; follower relationship model; participatory mechanisms