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Dr Oula Kadhum gained her doctorate at Warwick University in July 2017 having been awarded a PhD fellowship on the ERC funded ‘Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty’ project.

Following her PhD she completed a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship on the ERC funded ‘Alterumma’ Project at the University of Birmingham and Lunds University. She has taught undergraduate Comparative Politics at the University of Warwick and International Relations at SOAS, University of London and International Migration at post-graduate level at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her work has been published with journals including International Affairs, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Networks and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

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  • ‘Nation-destroying, Emigration, and Iraqi Nationhood after the 2003 Intervention, International Affairs, March 2023,
  • ‘Unpacking the role of Religion in Political Transnationalism: The Case of the Iraqi Shi’a Diaspora’ International Affairs, March 2020 
  •  ‘Where Politics and Temporality Meet: Iraqi Shi’a Political Transnationalism over time and its Relationship to the Iraqi state’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, September 2020 
  • ‘Diaspora as non-state actors in the International’ chapter in Peace, Security and Development, Routledge, 2020
  •  ‘Assessing co-development projects for civil society building in Iraq: the case of the Iraqi diaspora and Swedish institutions following the 2003 intervention in Iraq’ British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2019
  • ‘Ethno-sectarianism in Iraq, Positionality and political transnationalism: case study of the UK Iraqi diaspora in the aftermath of the Iraq war’ Global Networks 2018 

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Dr Oula Kadhum is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow whose current project titled, ‘Russian Diasporic Resistance Abroad: solidarity and Anti-regime activism since the Russian invasion of Ukraine explores Russia’s extra-territorial population and its anti-war resistance to Putin’s regime.

Her previous work explored political and religious transnationalism of Iraq’s diasporic migrant communities in Europe focussing on the ways transnationalism was used to support or challenge states, political actors, civil society and social movements as well as its effect on identity politics, religion, and nationalism in both the homeland and hostland

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