Dr. Andrew Burridge is a political geographer, based in the Discipline of Geography and Planning, in the School of Social Sciences. He is the current Masters of Research (MRes) Director. At Macquarie he is co-convenor of the Migration, Mobilities, Diversity research stream, co-convenor of the Cultural and Political Geography research cluster, and member of the Multilingualism Research Centre.

Andrew is also the academic lead for Making Connections: academic mentors for students from refugee backgrounds, part of Macquarie's Widening Participation initiative.

Andrew is co-founder of the Political Geography Study Group within the Institute of Australian Geographers, and an editorial board member of the Australian Geographer journal. He is also co-founder of the Australian Critical Border Studies Network. Andrew has been a Councillor of the Geographical Society of NSW since 2019.

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

As a lecturer in the Discipline of Geography and Planning, Andrew currently convenes and teaches into various graduate and post-graduate courses at Macquarie University. In 2022 he was a receipient of an Indigenous Learning and Teaching Grant, that supports the embedding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives within curriculum.

Current teaching (2022):

• Master of Research: Geography and Planning (GEOP8990)
• Healthy Places: Planning for Diversity, Equity and Wellbeing (GEOP8020)
• 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 (GEOP830/8080)
• 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 University of Exeter (UK), and University of Melbourne (Australia)

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

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

Current supervision:

- Evelyn Hendieh (MRes): Enabling food production to achieve food security through urban planning frameworks  

Andrew regularly discusses his research in the media, including on ABC Radio, and in The Guardian, and The Conversation.

He has published public reports with organisations including Centre for Policy Development (Australia), Public Law Project (UK), and Right to Remain (UK).