Sacred Heart College Adelaide 1983-1985.

Gained a BA from the The University of Adelaide (1989), a MA from the University of Lancaster, UK (1992), and a PhD from the University of London (1995).

Professor of Sociology at The London School of Economics and Political Science and Internationally renowned figure in urban and economic sociology.

Research interests include urban inequalities, spatial divisions and public space, cities and social theory, urban development and design.

Currently the managing editor of the international journal Economy and Society; previously an editor of the British Journal of Sociology.

Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: the social life of urban form (Polity, 2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006).

Co-author of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001, with Don Slater), and co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000, with Andrew Passey).

Marist College Ashgrove 1945-1953.

Named College Dux in 1953

Studied Engineering and spent 34 years at Queensland University of Technology (previously QIT, now QUT) including more than 20 years as Head of Mechanical Engineering or Acting Dean of the School of Engineering.

Achievements include: winner of the James Harrison Medal from AIRAH (only the fourth Queenslander to do so), serving on the committee of Australian Institute of Engineers QLD, member of the Sugar Research Institute of Australia, founder of the QIT Rugby Club and QIT Alpine Skiing Club and Chairman of Mt St Michael’s College Board, Marist College Ashgrove’s “sister school”.

Served as President of the Marist College Ashgrove Old Boys Association on two separate occasions. 

St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill 1963-1967.

Renowned author and poet.

Award winning author of eleven novels and a volume of essays on writing and culture.

Literature Board member on the Australia Council.

2014 Patrick White Award for Literature and the 2018 Prime Minister's Prize for Poetry.

St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill 1967-1972.

Vice-Provincial, Headmaster/Principal, teacher, national administrative leader.

Head/Principal of several Marist schools.

Has served as Director of Marist Education overseeing Marist schools"

St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill 1967-1972.

Teacher, author, school principal, rector, national administrative leader.

First National Director of Marist Schools Australia.

Author of and expert in Marist history, charism, pedagogy and spirituality.

St Gregory’s College Campbelltown 1975-1980.

CEO/Principal of Mater Dei Camden for 10 years.

Presently, Principal of St Mary Star of the Sea, Wollongong (as at 2023).

St Gregory’s College Campbelltown 1986-1991.

Served as the Principal of three Marist Schools, currently Headmaster of St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill (as at 2023), Champagnat Catholic College Pagewood 2016-2019, St Catherine’s Singleton 2015, St Peter’s Maitland 2009-2014.

Marcellin College Bulleen 1953-1963.

Served as Principal of several Marist Schools, including Marcellin College Bulleen, 1982-1989.

Oversaw development of Marist Schools across the former Province of Melbourne.

Joined the Marist Mission and Life Formation Team in 2011.

Currently National Director of Marist Tertiary Programs (last updated 2023).

St Ildephonsus College, New Norcia 1959-1964.

Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia 1991 - 2010

An inaugural member of the Court of Appeal from 2005, following its establishment as a separate division of the Supreme Court.

Completed the two-year Royal Commission into the collapse of the HIH Insurance group in April 2003.

In July 2003, started the three-year hearing into Alan Bond's Bell group of companies - one of the nation's longest-running and most expensive civil actions.

Adjunct Professor of Law and visiting lecturer in law at both University of Western Australia and the University of Notre Dame Australia.

Long-time Member of the Board of Governors and current Trustee of the University of Notre Dame Australia.

Served as Chair of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council.

Chair of The Trustees of St John of God Australia Limited.

Actively involved within the schools sector having been the Chair of the governing body of a number of different primary and secondary schools.

Red Bend Catholic College Forbes 1972 - 1973.

Regional Director Catholic Education Sydney 2008-2012.

National Director Marist Schools Australia and Executive Officer of Marist Association of St Marcellin Champagnat.

Completed a Doctorate in Education at ACU 2016.

Awarded Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Training from ACU.

Received ACEL Award for Scholarship.

Bunbury Catholic College 1974-1978.

Bunbury Catholic College Hall of Distinction.

2019 winner of the William D. Richards Software Award by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).

Professor of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles. 

Marist College Ashgrove 1940-1941; 1945-1946.

Appointed Rhodes Scholar in 1954.

Doctorate of Philosophy at Oxford University in 1957.

Appointed to the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland where he eventually became Head of Department.

Founding President of Innocents Relief in 1962.

Chairman of the Mater Misericordiae Hospitals Governing Board 1996-2001.

Awarded the Order of Australia Medal for community service in 2004.