MELISSA GREGG
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melgregg.com
Melissa Gregg is Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol, where she leads research at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and organizational change. Her work investigates sustainable alternatives to traditional user-centred design advancing low carbon computing practices.
As an industry consultant, she specialises in creative engineering initiatives to address climate change, providing guidance on carbon emissions reduction, circular economy, nature-based thinking and Green UX.
During her decade at Intel, Melissa led User Experience Research in the Client Computing Group, driving product concept and strategy including the research that launched Intel EVO laptops. As Senior Principal Engineer, she established the first Sustainability product team for Intel’s CTO before founding her independent consultancy, 40 Spots.
She has worked with leading industry hardware brands including Lenovo and ASML and is currently an advisor on sustainability strategy at Meta Reality Labs Research.
Her widely-cited publications include Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011), The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth, Duke 2010), Counterproductive: Time Management and the Knowledge Economy (Duke 2018), and the multigraph Media and Management (Meson Press 2021). She is a regular columnist for ACM Interactions.
Melissa holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Sydney and graduated with First Class Honours in English from the University of Tasmania, bringing valuable interdisciplinary expertise to her cross-sector collaborations.
