Chris has over 25 years’ experience as a designer and educator in the UK and in Australia. As a design practitioner, he has worked in editorial design and as a freelance illustrator, specialising in mixed-media and digital work for print, web and moving image. Chris moved to Australia in 2008 with his family and began teaching at UniSA on the Bachelor of Communication Design program. Chris specialises in the socio-cultural and ecological impacts of design and teaches theory and practice in undergraduate and post-graduate studies and is currently Program Director for the Bachelor of Graphic Communication Design at Adelaide University. Chris's approach to practice and research is distinctly interdisciplinary and employs methodologies, processes, theories and technologies from a range of fields. Chris holds a PhD in Design Studies from the University of South Australia (now Adelaide University) investigating the design potential and interconnectedness of social narratives, ecological identity and embodied environmental perception. Chris's current research activity encompasses design for health where he is a Chief Investigator on a four-year international collaboration funded by the NHMRC — ‘Co-designing a consumer-focused digital health system to improve adverse drug event (ADE) detection, management and reporting’ (CI; NHMRC Ideas Grant GNT2020626).