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.

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.

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.

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, I currently convene and teach into various graduate and post-graduate courses at Macquarie University. In 2022 I was a receipient of an Indigenous Learning and Teaching Grant, that supports the embedding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives within curriculum.

Current teaching (2023)

• 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)

Previously convened or taught

• Borderless Worlds (GEOP3060)
• Introduction to Human Geography (GEOP1010)
• 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

- Alinta Pilkington (MRes):

- Aireen Grace Andal (PhD):

- Milena Bojovic (PhD):

I regularly discuss my research in the media, including on ABC Radio, and in the Guardian, and the Conversation.

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