Dr. Dean Dudley is the Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Health and Physical Education in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia). He is also the World Regional Vice President to Fédération Internationale d’Education Physique (International Federation of Physical Education – FIEP), Chief Examiner for the New South Wales Board of Studies and Teacher Education Standards and Honorary Chair of Learning and Development for Surf Life Saving Australia.

Dr. Dean Dudley received his Ph.D. in physical education from University of Wollongong, Australia in 2012. Previously he has completed a Master of Education (Research) and a Bachelor of Health Science. Currently, he is the Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Health and Physical Education in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia).

Dean is a 2012 Churchill Fellow and was an Expert Consultant on the Quality Physical Education Guidelines for Policymakers in 2015 and MINEPS VI in 2017 for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

He is currently the World Regional Vice President to Fédération Internationale d’Education Physique (International Federation of Physical Education – FIEP), Chief Examiner for the New South Wales Board of Studies and Teacher Education Standards and Honorary Chair of Learning and Development for Surf Life Saving Australia.

Dean’s research is currently focused on the assessment and reporting of physical education and the development of observed learning outcomes pertaining to physical literacy. He is also a researcher of evidence-based approaches to health and physical education that yield large learning effects in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning domains.