- Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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
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2022–presentVice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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2020–2022Research fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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2019–2020Research fellow, HOME Research Hub, Deakin University
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2014–2018Tutor, University of Melbourne
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2015–2018Research assistant, Deakin University
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2017–2017Lecturer, UNSW
Education
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2018Deakin University, Doctor of Philosophy (Human Geography)
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2012Curtin University of Technology, Bachelor of Social Science (Anthropology / Geography) (Hons)
Professional Memberships
- Institute of Australian Geographers
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- Location: Melbourne, Australia
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