Dr Ray Younis, BA(Hons), MA(Hons) Sydney, DPhil Oxford has held several positions at CQUniversity and is currently the Associate Director (Academic) and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University's Intercultural Education Research Centre. Since completing his doctoral research in 1990, Ray has co-edited 3 books and contributed almost 100 papers to various books, academic journals and international conferences in Europe and Australasia on topics including informatics, the digital age, communication and cultural and media studies.

He is currently working on 2 book-length studies:  one on science and religion in the 21^st century and the other on the teaching of critical thinking in increasingly internationalised and culturally diverse educational environments.  His book On the Ethical Life will be published in the Cambridge Scholars series in 2009.

Ray has delivered talks at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and The Australian Museum, ABC Radio, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University in Australia.

Earlier this year, Ray was a principal speaker at the Ethical Excellence in the Public Sector conference in Sydney.  This conference was orientated on the notion of ethical excellence, achieving excellence and ethical excellence as a performance measure.

In August 2009 he will again speak at the University of Cambridge on the topic of technology and engagement.

Ray is a member of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, the Australasian Association of Philosophy, the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasian, the Philosophy of Education society of Great Britain and The Oxford Society and is one of the founding members of the International RLA Association and the Australian Philosophy of Religion Association.

Ray is the recipient of a number of awards and citations for teaching excellence, including the Vice Chancellor's Certificate of appreciation from the University of Sydney, "for Eight Years of Teaching Excellence".

He is also an experienced wine consultant and was a film critic for 7 years.