Daniel is a scholar practitioner and cultural theorist with expertise in gender and sexuality in South and Southeast Asia. They have over 10 years of research, lived, and professional experience with award-winning practice in the higher education sector in the UK. They are a published academic author including in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of culture, gender, postcolonial theory, and sexuality studies. They are the author of Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only (2023), and the co-editor of ‘Queer’ Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender (2019) alongside publications in peer-reviewed journals.
They also work extensively in the cultural sector in the UK, as the co-founder of ‘Queer’ Asia, a platform and network for inter-Asia collaboration and capacity enhancement and as a Trustee for UK Asian Film Festival. They regularly contribute to corporate cultural transformation and capacity building including at Google, Kearney, Sage. Daniel is also a guest lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), SOAS University of London, and various universities worldwide.
Qualifications :
- PhD South Asian Studies
- Oxford Senior Leadership Executive Programme
- PGCertHe (Core)
- MA Literary Studies
