He started his academic career at Monash South Africa, a branch campus of Monash University in Australia. His research interests lie in the neoliberal state of education in the post-apartheid South African system as well as infrastructure and development. He is a council member of the South African Geographical Society, has been a Research Fellow at Oxford University and the University of Edinburgh and is an Associate Member of the OpenSpace Research Centre. He is on the editorial board of InterEspaço: Revista de Geografia e Interdisciplinaridade, and Cogent: Social Science. He has published and presented on development issues in South Africa and can be found on twitter @DrAGunter.