He was a founding Associate Professor of Avondale when the rank was introduced in 2009, in the same year winning an Australian Learning & Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning,[1] particularly for his innovative use of tabletop wargaming to teach the World Wars at university level.

Reynaud’s interest in film was sparked by his film director brother Gabe Reynaud (1953-2000),[2][3] who made a series of influential documentary series for Adventist Media, including Keepers of the Flame,[4] Chasing Utopia and The Search.

Daniel Reynaud’s doctoral thesis from the University of Newcastle in 1997 was titled Celluloid Anzacs: representations of the Great War in Australian Cinema and Television Dramas.

Reynaud’s second principal area of research is challenging the myth of the universal secularity of the Anzacs.

Two major monographs to date reveal that religion was an important factor in the lives of a large minority of soldiers.

Reynaud's other work, Anzac Spirituality (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018)[10] explores soldierly attitudes to a range of formal and informal religious and spiritual issues, drawn from the reading of the diaries and letters of about a thousand Anzacs.

Reynaud has been involved in various other research projects, including on online learning and Romanian poetry translation.