David has maintained close links with architectural education throughout his David has maintained close links with architectural education throughout his career.

He has taught on the Masters programme at Brighton University School of Architecture and, for over five years, was a design tutor on the architecture degree course at Kingston University. He has also been a visiting studio lecturer at his former school, the Bartlett, University College London and Sheffield Universities.

He has also acted as a personal tutor for post-graduate students undertaking their RIBA professional qualification through RIBA Studio,an alternative route for candidates working in practice. The programme,  run in partnership with Oxford Brookes University and enables candidates to undertake RIBA parts 1, 2 and 3 courses whilst remaining in employment.

David contributed to an interdisciplinary research programme examining the relationship between the built environment, crime, fear of crime and mental health. He served on the project Advisory Group for research undertaken by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and partner universities, published through the NIHR Public Health Research programme in 2014.

The joint initiative is investigates the effects of changes to the built environment on mental health, crime and wellbeing in local communities.