Dr Gavin Melles is a Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health, Arts & Design.

• Dr Melles has had researcher (CI) and PhD supervisor roles in several Collaborative Research Centre (Interdisciplinary Industry-Government-Academia) projects - including the CRC for Low Carbon Living, CRC for Bushfire and Natural Hazards, and the AutoCRC EV Bus Malaysia. The HERDC assigned grants total over AU $1 Million
• He has been recipient of multiple international research exchange and fellowship grants from the German Government DAAD at TU Dresden (2010), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF, 2011), RWTH Aachen, HCI Research Center (2012), a nominated fellowship at Edinburgh University Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH, 2016) in the UK. He also held a one year (2012-2013) Swedish Higher Education Research Collaboration Grant (STINT) with Associate Professor Stefan Holmild, Linköping University. Most recently he was awarded a GIAN (MHRD, India) teaching fellowshipto NIT Silchar (Assam, India) and has been Research Fellow in Department of Management, IIT Madras (2019).
• He has had Government NCP and Asian Bound and industry funding totalling $100,000 (2015-2018) for Study Tour Mobility to India
• He assesses for the Australian Research Council (ARC), Ministry of Education (MoE) Singapore Government Grant Assessor, EURIAS Fellowships, Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF, Switzerland), Leverhulme Trust (UK), and is international examiner of PhDs in Germany Tu Dresden), Australia (James Cook University), Colombia (Universidad de Manizales), Canada (University of Montreal) and New Zealand (Auckland University of Technology)
• He is affiliated with the Social Accounting Network & Centre for Social Inititaive and Management (CSIM, India), Centre for Design Innovation (CDI), and is member of Social and Environmental Sustainability in Organisations (SESIO) Research Group, Faculty of Business and Law, at Swinburne University. He is also theme leader on the circular economy in the Manufacturing Futures Research Institute.
• His current PhD students and research projects address the process of designing innovations in various sustainability contexts
• He consults to industry and community in various capacities