Melissa Blackburn
DCRC/UWE Bristol
Melissa works for UWE as Executive Producer on Bristol + Bath Creative R+D, which aims to develop inclusive and climate-led approaches to creative work.

Worked on

Grounding Technologies
Grounding Technologies is a pilot project exploring how creative technology can be used to support climate action.I'm interested in the idea of transformative creative innovation - of finding new ways of working together to create an inclusive, low carbon, fairer society, always reaching for that third horizon...
I'm currently working across a number of projects: managing Bristol+Bath Creative R+D and building on its creative legacy of responsible and inclusive innovation; and Grounding Technologies, which is investigating how creatve technology might support climate action in the West of England.
My background is in filmmaking and human rights - I spent 10 years working as a documentary filmmaker specialising in oral history, and for three years was CEO of a modern slavery charity in Bristol.