Daniel (he/they) is an Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow at Adelaide University in the School of Society and Culture, and Co-Director of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender.  
 
Previously, Daniel was an  Enterprise Fellow in Sexualities and Genders at the University of South Australia, and an Associate Professor in the Writing, Literature & Culture group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University.  At Deakin, he led the introduction of the university's Gender and Sexuality Studies programme.  Prior to that, Daniel worked as a Research Fellow at The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society (La Trobe University) and was an invited Visiting Scholar at the Center for LGBTQ Studies (City University of New York) and at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research (London South Bank University).  
 
In broad terms, Daniel’s research investigates relationships between gender, sexuality, youth, culture, and social worlds.  Drawing on feminist, queer, cultural studies and sociological theoretical traditions and social research methods, Daniel’s research focuses on LGBTIQA+ young people's experiences of belonging, in/justice, violence, creativity, and resistance.  He also focuses on contemporary and historical representations, theories and lived experiences of LGBTIQA+ young people.  In his current ARC Discovery Project, he is leading a research team to investigate queer youth histories through archival research and learn more about LGBTIQA+ young people’s uses of archival materials and spaces in contemporary practices of storytelling, reparation and belonging.  Daniel's work also explores pedagogy and policy, including their connections to historical and contemporary expressions of the cultural politics of social change, gender and sexuality.
 
Daniel’s work has been supported by a range of funding agencies, including the Australian Research Council, VicHealth, the Harold Mitchell Foundation, and the Ian Potter Foundation.  Daniel has also worked in social policy settings and with a range of LGBTIQA+ community organisations, including serving as President of the Australian Queer Archives.  Previously Daniel also served as the Victorian Regional Representative of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and as a co-convenor of the Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies SIG of the Australian Association for Research in Education.