Rate My Professor Andrew Burridge

Dr. Andrew Burridge is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Geography and Planning in the School of Communication, Society and Culture, Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, where he currently serves as Higher Degree Research Discipline Convenor. As a political and urban geographer, his research centers on undocumented migration, the effects of border securitisation and immigration detention, as well as asylum and refugee reception and settlement. His work is situated within broader fields including political geography and geopolitics, carceral geographies, urban geography, refugee studies, critical border studies and international boundary law, legal geographies, mobilities, and counter-cartographies. Burridge obtained his PhD in Geography from the University of Southern California in 2009, focusing on humanitarian aid and the production of spatial knowledge and practices in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Urban and Global Studies from the University of Southern California (2007) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Urban Planning and Development from the University of Melbourne (2003).

Burridge's career trajectory spans multiple prestigious institutions and roles. Prior to Macquarie, he served as Research Coordinator for the Centre for Policy Development (2018-2019), Lead Researcher on an ESRC-funded project examining asylum-seeker appeal hearings at the University of Exeter's First-Tier Immigration and Asylum Tribunal (2013-2016), and Member of the International Boundaries Research Unit at Durham University (2010-2013). He has taught at the University of Southern California, Durham University, University of Exeter, and University of Melbourne. Burridge co-founded the Political Geography Study Group within the Institute of Australian Geographers and the Australian Critical Border Studies Network. He is an editorial board member for Australian Geographer and ACME journals and has been a Councillor for the Geographical Society of NSW since 2019. Notable publications include the co-edited volume Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis (University of Georgia Press, 2012); 'Australian political geography I: conservative beginnings, 1920s to early 1980s' (Australian Geographer, 2025); 'Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality' (Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2025); 'Non-care in the detention hotel: 20 years of Australia's use of alternative places of detention' (Bristol University Press, 2025); and 'Carceral adaptability and the global detention hotel' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). He has secured grants such as the Indigenous Learning and Teaching Grant (2022) and a Global PhD in achieving social sustainability grant (2025), and leads projects on sub-national border closures during COVID-19 and language inclusion in multilingual Australia.