Dr Oula Kadhum

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.

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