Dr Melinda Gaughwin
Lecturer
School of Art and Design
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD as Co-Supervisor only - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Dr. Melinda Gaughwin is a designer, design researcher, educator and artist, and a Lecturer in Design at Adelaide University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Screen Studies), a Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) (Honours) and a Ph.D. in Design Studies. With over a decade of teaching at the University of Sydney, the University of South Australia and Adelaide University, her academic work critiques how design and technology shape social and political environments. She also contributes to partnered research in community connection and sustainable design, and is listed among Adelaide University’s AI experts. Melinda’s interdisciplinary art practice, informed by critical and speculative design, merges poetry, illustration, electronica, video, movement and voice, addressing posthumanism and environmental change. A two-time finalist in the Heysen Prize for Landscape (2024 and 2026), her work invites reflection on humanity’s technological and ecological traces, extending her research on design’s societal impact into imagined futures.
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Keulemans, G., Gaughwin, M., Jansen, T., & Parkes, B. (2025). Transformative repair beyond materiality: care, bereavement and loss. In Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025) (pp. 1-8). Denmark: Aalborg University. DOI |
| 2015 | Gaughwin, M. (2015). Not Without my iPhone. In Unmaking Waste 22–24 May 2015, Conference Proceedings (pp. 177-183). Adelaide: Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Gaughwin, M. (2024). Closed Bracket Asterisk (Extent: 30 mins) [Live performance with original sound/voice and video projection]. SASA Gallery | Kaurna Building, Level 2, Fenn Pl, University of South Australia, City West Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5000.. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Authors: Gaughwin M. Title: cracklesea. Extent: 57 sec loop. |
| 2024 | Authors: Gaughwin M. Title: remnants_5276. Extent: 4:47. |
Courses I teach
- CREA 4001 Honours Research 1 (Creative) (2025)
- CREA 4004 Research Methods (Creative) (2025)
- GRAP 1023 Design, Culture and Society 1 (2025)
- GRAP 2008 Communication Design Studio 3 (2025)
- GRAP 2022 Critical Design Practice (2025)
- GRAP 2030 Design, Culture and Society 2 (2025)
- CREA 4003 Honours Research 3 (Creative) (2024)
- CREA 4004 Research Methods (Creative) (2024)
- GRAP 2008 Communication Design Studio 3 (2024)
- GRAP 2022 Critical Design Practice (2024)
- GRAP 5005 Research Studio 1 (2024)
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Co-Supervisor | Creating-with: Centering discussions of climate grief to explore the more-than-human world through expressions of memorialisation and resilience | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Anna Megan Goldsmith |
