ProfessorChris Hickey

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)

Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER)

Research for Educational Impact (REDI)

International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education

International Special Interest Group focused on Professional Doctorates

Awarded Life Membership of the Australian Council of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (2016). For outstanding and sustained contribution to the profession.

Outstanding Professional Service Award (2015), Council of Professional Teaching Associations of Victoria. For leadership of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, nominated by the Australian Council of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

Fellow of the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (2010).

Inaugural Fellow of the College of Distinguished Deakin Educators (2007).

National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2006), Carrick Australia Awards for University Teaching.

Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Service (2006), the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

Vice Chancellors Award for Distinguished Teaching (2005), Deakin University.

Award for Teaching Excellence (2005), Deakin University.

Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year Award (2004), Deakin University Student Association.

Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis (1997), Australian Council of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

Recent Conferences include:

Evans, T., Hickey, C. & Macauley (2011), Tensions between academic imperatives and professional impacts in doctoral dissemination and examination.International Conference on Professional Doctorates, University of Edinburgh, UK, April 20-21, 2011.

Mooney, A. & Hickey, C. (2011) Female physical educators in all boys schools: Opportunities for enhancing social interactions? Peer reviewed paper presented at the Australian Council of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER) International Conference Adelaide, April 18-20, 2011.

Hickey, C., Kelly, P. & Cormack, S. (2010) Community education: Sporting clubs, alcohol and young people. Symposium presentation at the International Conference on Education, Hawaii, January 6-10, 2010.

Cormack, S. & Hickey, C. (2010) Community leadership and cultural change: Sporting clubs, alcohol and young people. Symposium presentation at the International Conference on Education, Hawaii, January 6-10, 2010.

Hickey , C. (2009) Developing the whole child? Tensions between sport and study in Australian Private Schools. Paper presented at the Deakin University-National Taiwan Normal University Symposium, National Taiwan University, June 12&14, 2009.

Hickey, C, (2008) Im allowed to have two drinks: Dilemmas and tensions associated with the responsible, but illegal, serving of alcohol. In Harrison, L., Hickey, C., Kelly, P. & Lindsay, J. Young Australians and Alcohol: Bingeing, Biographies, Sporting Clubs and Moral Panics. Research Symposium at The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Melbourne, December 2-5, 2008.

Hickey, C. & Jin, A. (2008) Exploring the 'health' of Chinas new PE curriculum Paper accepted for the 16th Biennial Conference of the International society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport, University of Macau, July 23-26, 2008.

Hickey, C. (2008) Dilemmas and tensions associated with the responsible, but illegal, serving of alcohol in Sporting Clubs. Youth Sport and Health Research Network Forum, University of Sydney, Nov 24-25, 2008.

Hickey , C. (2007) Teachers perspectives of physical education curriculum reform in China.. Paper presented at the Deakin University-National Taiwan Normal University Symposium, University of Macau, November 13&15, 2007.