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.
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.
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.