Alan is a former senior lecturer within the then School of Education Magill, University of South Australia. He has a PhD in mathematical physics from Adelaide University. He was a senior research fellow in Aboriginal Reseach Institute with a particular focus on research into building indigenous capacities, especially in Information Technology.
Alan has an extensive background in the research degrees management, quantitative methods and in the development of learning technologies. He led a group of researchers investigating cognitve technologies in learning. At the time that included Mathematica but much more recently includes Artificial Intellgence. He is now a Research Advisor for Global Centre for Work Applied Learning in the applications of AI in practioner research and research management with a special emphasis on AI assisted interfaces.