Melissa Vincent

Melissa Vincent is a Researcher at the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), supported by an LSE PhD Studentship. She holds a Master of Information from the University of Toronto and was an inaugural research fellow at the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis. Her research focuses on the emotional and material impacts of data loss grief following digital platform collapse, integrating feminist and postcolonial theories.

Her expertise spans Critical Media Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, and Black Studies. She explores how systemic infrastructure failures affect user dignity and livelihoods under techno-capitalism.

• Grants/Awards: 2024 Hilda Wilson Fellowship, Digital Publishing Award nomination (2022)
• Advisory Roles: Member of Toronto Music Advisory Committee, Mayor's ArtworxTO External Advisory Committee
• Public Engagement: Prism Prize juror, SOCAN Songwriting Prize Panelist

Her doctoral work examines equity-oriented technological liberation through gestures of refusal and relationality. She has produced award-nominated journalism and contributed to cultural studies syllabi globally.