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Andrew Burridge

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7471-8726
20052021

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Biography

Dr. Andrew Burridge is a political geographer, based in the Department of Geography and Planning. He is co-convenor of the Migration, Mobilities, Diversity research stream; and co-convenor of the Cultural and Political Geography research cluster. Andrew is also the academic lead for Making Connections: academic mentors for students from refugee backgrounds.

He was formerly Research Coordinator for the Cities and Settlement Initiative at the Centre for Policy Development.

Other roles:

- Departmental representative, Early Career Researcher Network, Macquarie University.
- Macquarie University representative, Geographical Society of New South Wales.
- Member, Academics for Refugees network.
 

Research interests

Andrew's work has focused primarily upon undocumented migration, the effects of border securitisation and immigration detention, as well as asylum and refugee reception and settlement. He situates his work within:
 
- Political geography and geopolitics
- Urban geography
- Refugee studies
- Critical border studies and international boundary law
- Carceral geographies
- Legal geographies
- Mobilities
- Counter-cartographies

Andrew received his PhD from the University of Southern California, where he explored humanitarian-aid counter-mapping practices in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands.

Between 2010 and 2013, Andrew was a member of the International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU), a consultancy that works to minimise conflict associated with international boundaries on land and at sea, based at Durham University in the UK.

From 2013-2016, Andrew was based at the University of Exeter, where he was Lead Researcher on an ESRC-funded project concerned with asylum-seeker appeal hearings in the UK First-Tier Immigration and Asylum Tribunal.

Andrew also has a background in urban studies and planning (teaching and research), having received a BA(Hons) in Urban Planning and Development from the University of Melbourne, Australia (2003), and a Graduate Certificate in Urban and Global Studies from the University of Southern California (2007).

He has worked with several immigrant and refugee rights organisations including No More Deaths/No Más Muertes (U.S.); Bristol Refugee Rights and Right to Remain (UK); and the International Detention Coalition.

Teaching

As a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Planning, Andrew currently convenes and teaches into various graduate and post-graduate courses at Macquarie University. In 2021 these will include:

  • Sustainable Urban Regions (GEOP8080)
  • Sydney and the Great Australian Dream (GEOP1030)
  • Thinking Space (GEOP3090)
  • Introduction to Human Geography (GEOP1010)

Andrew has previously convened or taught in to:

  • Borderless Worlds (GEOP3060)
  • Sustainable Urban Regions (GEOP830)
  • Special Topic in Geography and Planning (GEOP810)
  • Research Frontiers (FOAR700)
  • Human Geography in Action (GEOP380)
  • Urban Dynamics: Population, Housing and Economy (GEOP219)
  • Urban Planet: Cities and Planning in the Anthropocene (GEOP181)
  • Geographies of Global Change (GEOP111)
  • Humanities and the World (ARTS 1000)

Andrew has previously taught at the University of Southern California (US), Durham University and Exeter University (UK), and University of Melbourne (Australia)

Research student supervision

I am interested in supervising Master (of Research) students and PhD candidates with the following research interests:

  • Refugee and asylum studies; forced migration
  • Critical border studies
  • Carceral geographies
  • Counter cartographies
  • Humanitarianism

Education/Academic qualification

Geography, PhD, University of Southern California

2004 → 2009

Award Date: 16 Dec 2009

Urban and Global Studies, Graduate Certificate, University of Southern California

2005 → 2007

Award Date: 1 Aug 2007

Urban Planning and Development, Bachelor (Hons), The University of Melbourne

2000 → 2003

Award Date: 1 Dec 2003

External positions

Research Coordinator, Centre for Policy Development

1 Feb 2018 → 31 Dec 2019

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