Dr M J Hunter Brueggemann

Biography

Hunter joined UAL’s Creative Computing Institute (CCI) in 2020 as an Associate Lecturer on the MSc Creative Computing. Their role included adapting and redesigning key parts of the course for online learning, as well as helping to decolonise the syllabus. They also teach and supervise students across a wide range of areas, including cyborg and posthuman theory, postcolonial theory, sustainable design, design justice, the body as a site of political research, mad studies, research methods, and ethnomethodologies.
Hunter’s teaching and research sit at the intersections of queer, feminist, and anti-racist thought. They focus on making digital innovation more inclusive by addressing the forms of harm and exclusion that can occur when new technologies or "code-scapes" are created. Their work explores what happens when different knowledge systems come into conflict, and how digital practices can instead be re-imagined in more equitable and decolonising ways. To do this, Hunter draws on practices of resilience, queer kinship, and alternative design methods. Their broader aim is to show how creative practices can drive inclusivity and reconciliation in technology and innovation. Much of their research experiments with the role of art in research, including art as method, art as research, research as art, and art within research.


Hunter was awarded a doctorate from Lancaster University for a cross-disciplinary project co-sponsored by Computing and Communications, Management, Contemporary Arts, and Sociology. They were also awarded the HighWire Scholarship for Radical Post-Disciplinary Digital Innovation, funded by the EPSRC Digital Economy programme. Beyond academia, Hunter is poet-in-residence and ambassador-in-training for Dragonfly, a UK mental health charity focused on supporting academics.


For prospective PhD students:
Hunter is keen to work with researchers from all backgrounds and disciplines, and open to proposals that intersect with any of their interestes.
They bring to supervision a mix of pastoral care, creative practice, critical theory, and artistic, scientific, and methodological expertise. Students with neurodivergent needs, Indigenous or colonised heritage, or those working in English as an additional language are particularly encouraged to reach out to explore potential collaborations.