Dr Adam Ramadan MA, MSc, DPhil

Dr Adam Ramadan

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor in Human Geography

Contact details

Telephone
0121 415 8904
Email
a.ramadan@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Adam Ramadan is a political geographer with a focus on the Middle East and refugee issues.

Qualifications

  • MA Geography – University of Cambridge
  • MSc Modernity, Space and Place – University College London
  • DPhil Geography and the Environment – University of Oxford
  • PGCert in Academic Practice – University 麻豆精选

Teaching

Dr Ramadan leads the Year 2 module Political Geographies and from 2022/23 the year 1 field course to Rotterdam. He also teaches on the year 1 module Contemporary Human Geography and year 3 Geopolitics and Global Challenges. He is Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement for the school.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Ramadan welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in his areas of interest. These include topics around the political geography of the Middle East, forced displacement and refugees, and everyday geopolitics. He is also happy to discuss topics within political geography more broadly, or between political and cultural geography.

Other activities

Dr Ramadan has longstanding involvement with the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), serving as Chair of the Political Geography Research Group twice (2013-16 and 2020), and research groups representative to the Research and Higher Education Committee. He has given more than a dozen invited papers and seminars at UK universities, as well as invited research presentations in Canada, Finland, Cyprus, Norway and Ireland. He is an editorial board member of the journal Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Ramadan, A & Fregonese, S 2017, '', Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 107, no. 4, pp. 949-963.

Fregonese, S & Ramadan, A 2015, '', Geopolitics, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 793-813.

Ramadan, A 2013, '', European Urban and Regional Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 145-149.

Ramadan, A 2013, '', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 65-77.

Ramadan, A 2012, '', Social and Cultural Geography, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 1-2.

Ramadan, A 2011, '', Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 251 -254.

Ramadan, A 2011, '', Political Geography, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 195-196.

Ramadan, A 2010, '', Cultural Geographies, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 418.

Ramadan, A 2010, '', Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 49-62.

Ramadan, A 2009, '', ACME: An International e-journal for critical geographies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 69-99. <>

Ramadan, A 2009, '', Political Geography, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 153-163.

Martin, D, Ramadan, A & Fregonese, S 2009, '', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 951-955.

Ramadan, A 2008, '', Antipode, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 658-677.

Chapter

Ramadan, A & Pascucci, EA 2018, . in I Katz, D Martin & C Minca (eds), Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology. Rowman & Littlefield. <>

Comment/debate

Rokem, J, Fregonese, S, Ramadan, A, Pascucci, EA, Rosen, G, Charney, I, Paasche, TF & Sidaway, JD 2017, '', Political Geography.