Writer

Melissa has authored over sixty invited, sponsored, and guest articles, reports, papers, essays, chapters, and opinion pieces for wide-ranging international academic, trade, and consumer press. Her past clients including Routlege, McGraw-Hill, The Guardian, and Sustainable Business, among many others, and her written works, which include authoring several cover stories, range from depth analyses of complex sustainability and ethics issues to provocations on philosophy, design, and society to speculations on possible near, medium, and far futures.

Versed in multiple creative and technical writing styles and mediums, her further written works include writing short science and other fictions in formats for print, digital, audio, film, and mixed media. Recognition of her creative works include finalist positions in sci-fi writing and script concept competitions, such as the New Scientist sci-fi film science competition and film competition. In addition to works completed as sole author, Melissa has contributed commentary and other inputs to numerous white papers, trend reports, and technical reports produced by both for and not-for-profit organisations. In addition to commercial works she has independently produced open access reports, ebooks, pamphlets, interviews, and other published media on subjects including innovation, design, technology and more.

Melissa’s wider experience in publishing includes editor, guest editor, and editorial board member of several books and magazines in fields including sustainability, lifestyle, fashion, and events; contributor to documentary-style short film and radio shows, and script advisor on issues of science, wider STEM, design and futures. Her most recently completed written works include the chapter ‘Design for Wildfire’ for a forthcoming compendium on ecological design, and coauthoring a report on the problem of nano and micro plastics pollution and its possible solutions.

Find a select list of her published works here.

Expertise

Primary fields of expertise are planetary and biofutures inc. biodesign, bioscience, bioengineering, biotechnology, and biourbansim; emerging material, information, and production systems and their applications in science, commerce, industry, and wider society; ecological design and urban and peri-urban resilience to hazards inc. wildfires, floods, storm systems and other natural, human, and hybrid events; transdisciplinary, complexity, and systems theory and practice; sustainable innovation and enterprise in fields including design, technology, manufacturing, utilities, and the built environment; and corporate social responsibility, environmental social governance, and business ethics. Wider interests in fields as diverse as natural history and ancient civilisations to psychology and cognition to belief systems and mythology.

Skills

Writing across formats including articles, reports, papers, essays, chapters, opinion pieces, blogs, short film, radio, podcast, live events, mixed and hybrid formats in styles technical, creative, and experimental. Editing, critiquing, and supervising both academia and commercial works, including thesis, books, and film scripts. Commentary, interviews, and other contributions to both for and not for profit works including news broadcasts, documentaries, and discussions.

Publications

Find a select list of Melissa’s published works for consumer, trade, and academic publications here, further open access academic works here,  here, here, and at Panarchic Codex® Bionic City®.