David is a geographer and ethnographer specialising in the expansion, intensification and lived experience of precarious dwelling. His scholarship specifically attends to the social and spatial life of policy, and how it shapes housing adequacy, security and justice. His current research maps how the experience of precarious dwelling infrastructures are mediated by policy frameworks to better understand the endurance and resistance strategies of affected communities.
Experience
2022–present
Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
2020–2022
Research fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
2019–2020
Research fellow, HOME Research Hub, Deakin University
2014–2018
Tutor, University of Melbourne
2015–2018
Research assistant, Deakin University
2017–2017
Lecturer, UNSW
Education
2018
Deakin University, Doctor of Philosophy (Human Geography)
2012
Curtin University of Technology, Bachelor of Social Science (Anthropology / Geography) (Hons)