MELISSA GREGG
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melgregg.com
Dr Melissa Gregg is an International Advisory Board Member for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).
She is an internationally recognised research pioneer with deep technical expertise in user experience, sustainability, silicon and platform architecture and workplace transformation.
For the past decade, Melissa led User Experience Research in the Client Computing Group at Intel, driving a range of product initiatives including the research that launched Intel EVO laptops. Most recently she was a Senior Principal Engineer in User Experience and founder of the Sustainability Strategy Office in the Software and Advanced Technology Group. She has an international reputation for her research in the area of technology, work and human factors.
Prior to joining Intel, she was on faculty in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (2009-12) following successive postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland (2004-8).
Her publications include Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011), The Affect Theory Reader (co-edited with Gregory J. Seigworth, Duke 2010), Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices (Palgrave 2006), and Willunga Connects: A baseline study of pre-NBN Willunga (2011).
SENIOR INDUSTRY FELLOWSHIP INITIATIVE
In 2023, Dr Melissa Gregg joins the ADM+S Centre as a Senior Industry Fellow, leveraging her decade-long experience in the tech industry and forging new collaborations between communications studies, cultural geography, and the environmental humanities.
The primary objective of this Fellowship is the ELECTRONICS < > ECOLOGIES workshop series, providing strategic research outcomes and specialised training in sustainable electronics design and hardware studies, and foster a growing international community of scholars focused on exploring alternative economies of technology use and reuse, including diverse cultural practices of repair.
By hosting Mel at ADM+S, this collaboration takes advantage of Australia’s proximity to the vast hardware ecosystem in the Asia region, which plays a crucial role in high-tech assembly, testing, manufacturing, and distribution. Additionally, the collaboration capitalises on Mel’s background and knowledge of product design and distribution in the Silicon Valley, which historically obscures environmental accountability through offshoring and complex supply chain relationships.
