Dr Nabeela Ahmed
School of Geography and Planning
Lecturer in Human Geography
Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
F3
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Nabeela was awarded a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Sussex. Her thesis was based on ethnographic and survey fieldwork, working with labour migrants and access to state welfare in two of India's fastest growing cities.
Prior to her PhD, Nabeela worked as a practitioner for NGOs including BRAC in Bangladesh and I-Partner India in India.
She completed her MA in International Relations at Boston University and BA in English at the University of Cambridge.
- Research interests
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As a feminist critical geographer focused on postcolonial contexts, Nabeela's research interests and experience intersect three key domains: mobilities, borders and citizenship; urban inequalities (around class, gender and race); and digitisation and governance.
Nabeela's research is based mainly on ethnographic and collaborative methodologies, driven by a politics of social justice, and has to date been focused in South Asia.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university. CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, 26(4), 562-586. View this article in WRRO
- COVID-19 and India's Ongoing Migration Fiasco Some Lessons for Policy and Research. Economic and Political Weekly, 57(16), 30-35.
- Mapping Gendered Infrastructures: Critical Reflections on Violence Against Women in India. Architectural Design, 90(4), 104-111.
- Intimate infrastructures : the rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence in Kerala, India. Geoforum, 110, 67-76.
- Infrastructure as territorial stigma: labour migrant exclusions in the Indian city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Chapters
- “Dirty Phone”: Infrastructures of violence against women in urban Kerala In Truelove Y & Sabhlok A (Ed.), Gendered Infrastructures Space, Scale, and Identity
- Vulnerability and social protection access In Rajan I & M S (Ed.), Handbook of Internal Migration in India (pp. 720-737). SAGE
- Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university. CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, 26(4), 562-586. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching interests
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Nabeela's teaching interests are mutually informed by her research interests and overall agenda to address historically embedded and rapidly evolving inequalities of class, race, citizenship and gender.
Nabeela teaches across:
- Urban geographies
- Geographies of the 'global south'
- Geographies of development
- Feminist geographies and gender
- Postcolonial geographies and 'race'