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

Umut is an International Relations (IR) scholar. Her main research expertise is border politics and mobilities. Her work engages with border and security studies, non-traditional security issues, human security, and critical methods in International Relations.  Her work was published in leading journals including Security Dialogue, International Studies Review, Geopolitics, International Political Sociology, and Political Geography. 

Umut is the Program Leader for Digital Border and AI Adaptation, at the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence and Process Automation at Macquarie University. She 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(APSA).  

She is interested in understanding multiplication of borders and bordering technologies. Her current research focuses on AI and automated systems in migration and border governance.

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.

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 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 

Digital Borders and Migration Governance

POIR8570 International Law and Global Governance

POIR 8310 Security in World Politics

POIR1080 Introduction to Global Politics