Dr. Alan Young
Alan Young received his PhD in Communication Design at RMIT University, Australia. He has worked as project manager/designer for a number of community based art and design projects. Most recently he produced a DVD, titled Equal Service, on Melbourne’s Homeless community for the Department of Justice, Victoria, and has had a series of digital films from the DVD Unreserved: Tales from the Explosives Reserve, accepted for the collection at the Australian Centre for Moving Image.
Alan is a Senior Lecturer in the Graphic Design Department at AUT University and as well as supervising postgraduate students, continues his own research, writing peer reviewed articles and presenting regularly at national and international conferences on design theory and digital storytelling. Alan has been peer reviewer for a number conferences and journals and is on the editorial board for Antipodes journal.