 Post doctorate studies from 1994-1996 were in sports injury biomechanics and sports injury prevention and were conducted at the University of Calgary with Professor Benno Nigg, in Zurich at ETHZ with Dr Alex Stacoff and at the University of Wollongong with Professor Julie Steele.Hume's biomechanics mentors have been Professor Barry Wilson (Otago), Professor James Hay (USA) and Professor Benno Nigg (Canada), Derek McCormack (NZ), Lex Henry (NZ).Her 1999 PhD thesis was titled "Effects of the Aircast ankle brace on the ankle during inversion movement".