Dr. Umut Ozguc is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations and convenor of Master of International Relations. 

Umut is a critical International Relations (IR) scholar. Her main research interests are border politics, critical security studies,  mobilities, International Political Sociology, and critical methods in IR. Her work has been published in journals including Security Dialogue, Geopolitics, International Political Sociology, Political Geography and International Relations. Her previous research focused on human security, critical approaches to Canadian foreign policy, and cultural diversity.

Umut is the co-founder/ co-convenor of Australian Critical Border Studies Network. She is currently co-chair of Women's Caucus Australian Political Studies Association.  

Before joining Macquarie University, Umut worked as a lecturer and a researcher at several universities including Deakin University, Australian National University (ANU), UNSW, and Sydney University. She received a teaching award at ANU, the College of Asia and the Pacific (2018).

She is interested in understanding multiplication of borders and bordering technologies. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at UNSW Canberra on her project on “Posthuman Borders” (2019-2020). Her project, "Mobility injustices, racialised bodies, and Australia’s pandemic borders", is the winner of 2022 ANU Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry Early Career Research Grant.

She is open to supervising research students working on critical border and security studies and critical methodologies in IR.

Her publication list can be found at google scholar

Border Politics

Critical Security Studies 

International Relations Theory

Border Walls & Carceral Geographies

Human Security 

International Political Sociology

POIR8570 International Law and Global Governance

POIR 8310 Security in World Politics

POIR1080 Introduction to Global Politics