Sam Hey has taught in a range of tertiary institutions including the University of Queensland, Christian Heritage College, and Tabor College. He completed his MA at the University of Queensland and his PhD at Griffith University. His doctoral thesis on the social history of Australian megachurches was published as a monograph in 2013.

B.Min., Garden City School of Ministries, 1992

M.A. (Theology), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1997
Pentecostal Hermeneutics of the book of the Acts

Ph.D., Griffith University, 2011
God in the Suburbs and Beyond: The emergence of an Australian megachurch and denomination

Dipl.Ed., University of Tasmania, 1980

B.Sc., University of Tasmania, 1979