- Who's Who Worldwide Top Health and Fitness Leader 2015 and 2016
- Who's Who Worldwide Professional of the Year in Higher Education for 2014
- Honorary Lifetime Membership listing in the Who's Who Worldwide Registrar.
- Reviewers Board Member of Women's Health - Open Journal 2017
- Lead Publisher of Women's Health - Open Journal 2017
- Award for 20 Years Community Service by Hand on Health 2012
- Awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship to Harvard University, where he graduating with Honours in 1970, achieving 'Summa Cum Laude' in his major area of study.
- Awarded a Harvard Traveling Fellowship in 1970 to assist him in his international research in philosophy of medicine.
- Recipient of a Roothbert Research fellowship for study at St John's College, Cambridge University.
- Elected to the World Council of Churches Fellowship for study at Brasenose College, Oxford University.
- Elected to the Oxford University, Denyer Johnson Research Fellowship in 1975.
- Visiting Professor to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Philosophy of Town Planning in 1976.
- Appointed to a Lectureship in Philosophy of Education Monash University, Australia, in 1977.
- Appointed Professor of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1978, the youngest Chair Professor ever appointed in this field within Australia.
- Twice elected Dean of the Faculty of Education, for a total of six years, at the University of Newcastle.
- Twice elected Chairman, Committee of New South Wales Universities Deans of Education.
- Appointed, Head of the Department of education, for a three year term of office, at the University of Newcastle.
- Twice Elected President, The Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.
- Co-founder with Professor Saxon White of the Hunter Institute of Sport
- Foundation Chairman, Sports Medicine and Health Education Committee, the Hunter Institute of Sport.
- Honorary Election to the New York Academy of Sciences.
- Elected Lifetime International Fellow, the Philosophy of Education Centre (PERC), Harvard University.
- Served on the Editorial Boards of the following journals and Magazines: 'Philosophy and Education Theory', 'Practical Ethics', 'Philosophical Theory', 'Vogue', 'Nature and Health', 'Flex', 'Ultrafit', 'Australian Fitness and Training', 'Pump', 'Muscle Power' and 'Muscle & Fitness'.
- Recipient of the Gold Medallion of Honour from the IFBB for his Research and Practical Contributions to the Drug problem in Sport, awarded personally by Dr Robert Goldman Head of American Athletic Union (AAA) at the IFBB World Bodybuilding Championships in Paris, France.
- Appointed by the International Federation of Bodybuilding as Director, The Human Performance Research Centre, Australasian Division.
