About
Professor Ellie Rennie is a Professor in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University. She holds positions as an ARC Future Fellow and Principal Research Fellow, affiliated with RMIT's Blockchain Innovation Hub and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and Research Director at Metagov.
Her research focuses on blockchain governance, digital inclusion in Indigenous communities, and ethnographic methods applied to decentralized systems. Key areas include validator governance, climate action through blockchain (ReFi), and Indigenous knowledge systems' integration with distributed technologies. She contributed to the Australian Digital Inclusion Index and serves on the First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group.
Selected publications include analyses of blockchain's environmental impact, validator participation, and participatory ethnography in governance. Awards include the prestigious ARC Future Fellowship.
Supervision interests span Web3 socio-economic strategies, decentralized governance, and digital inclusion in creative industries. Affiliated research centers include the Platform Economies Research Network and Blockchain Innovation Hub.
