Adjunct Professor
Margot Brereton

Biography

I am no longer accepting new PhD students or Masters students.

Margot Brereton is a national and international leader in the collaborative design of new humanitarian technologies and their interfaces. She designs with real user communities whose needs are typically overlooked in technology development. She has focused on better futures for and the agency of older people, neurodiverse people, minimally-verbal children with Autism, connecting people to nature, and fostering use of endangered indigenous languages. Margot works with particular communities in long term engagements over several years to ensure that designs fit into people’s lives in positive ways with people shaping their evolution. Margot’s approach, which focuses on tangibles, connected interfaces, AI and machine learning technologies, leads to innovative designs and new theoretical understandings and methods in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Margot is Professor of Engineering and Interaction Design in QUT’s School of Computer Science. She has served on the Australian Research Council College of Experts. Margot has raised over $6 million in competitive grant funding, published more than 250 fully peer-reviewed papers and supervised 25 PhD students to completion. She began her career as an apprentice at Rolls Royce aircraft engines. She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering Design from Stanford University, a Masters in Technology Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BSc.Eng(Hons) from University of Bristol, UK.

Broad area of research: Human-Computer Interaction, Participatory Design, Interaction Design, Co-Design, Design Methods, Ubiquitous Computing, Socio-technical-ecological Systems, Humane AI, Human-centred AI