Dr David Singh
David is an experienced activist and race scholar. He is originally from the UK where he was an organiser, mobilising a west London community against police and racial violence. Working as a racial harassment caseworker with the Southall Monitoring Group, he worked on several high-profile racial justice campaigns, including the early stages of the Stephen Lawrence campaign. It has since been learned that many of these campaigns were spied upon by undercover police officers. He has worked in collaboration with other racial justice organisations across London including the Newham Monitoring Project, Greenwich Action Against Racial Attacks, and the Institute for Race Relations. He later moved into policy development, leading municipal housing, social services and corporate race equality policy units at the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Hackney, Newham and Warwickshire County Council.
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In Australia he has been a policy advisor for the Logan City Council and the Queensland State government where he coordinated a whole-of-government responses to refugees and the 2004 tsunamis.
As a scholar he has a Masters in Race and Ethnic Studies from the University of Warwick (UK) and began a PhD at the London School of Economics researching whiteness on a north London housing estate. After migrating to Australia, he took his PhD at the University of Queensland where he researched Black British fictive representations of racial violence. He has worked in Indigenous research units at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) under the leadership of Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson and at the University of Queensland, where he worked under the direction of Associate Professor Chelsea Watego. During his time at QUT he co-authored major reports on Indigenous education and Indigenous higher education governance. With Chelsea Watego, he has researched and written on Indigenous health, Indigenous carceral over-representation, Indigenous bioethics and race and racism. His primary research interest is in race and racism and how these manifest in a variety of policy and service delivery settings, including health, education and policing.