Professor Emeritus at Newcastle and Adjunct Professor at Royal Roads University, Canada.
During his time as an academic administrator, He held national positions as President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education, President of the NSW Teacher Education Council, executive member of the Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities of Australasia and inaugural board member of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
He have been associated for over fifteen years with the University of Oxford through several visiting scholarships at the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He have also been associated with the Department of Education, mainly in the area of religious and values education, but also concerning international research into the doctorate. He is now a member of the Religion, Philosophy and Education Forum in the department.