Professor Philip Hughes was a senior research officer with the Christian Research Association (CRA) from its foundation in 1985 until 2016 and has been appointed as an approved researcher by the CRA. He joined Harvest Bible College in 2015 before becoming a research professor at Alphacrucis, and chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee. Now retired, he is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and continues to work in the field of the sociology of religion in Australia.
Professor Hughes has postgraduate degrees in philosophy, theology and education, and has done extensive empirical research in the areas of religion, values, and personal and communal wellbeing. He is particularly interested in the relationship between Christianity and culture. For many years he was a research fellow at the Centre for Social Justice Research, Edith Cowan University. He is also an honorary research fellow with the University of Divinity.
Philip is a member of the Holistic Human Health and Theology and Society research clusters.
D.Theol. (South-East Asia Graduate School of Theology), Christianity and Culture: A Case in Northern Thailand – 1983
M.Ed. (University of Melbourne), ;New Being' and Religious and Moral Education – 1977
M.A. (University of Melbourne), Decisions of Life-Style – 1974
B.D. (Hons) (Melbourne College of Divinity) – 1976
B.A. (Hons) (University of Melbourne) – 1972
International Society for the Sociology of Religion (since 2005)
Lausanne Network of International Researchers (since 2005)
Society for Scientific Study of Religion (since 2019)