Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy in the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in Political Economy and co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham (2005-2014). Before that he was a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University (2002-5) and an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2001-2), where he also completed his PhD.
He has previously held positions as a A.E. Havens Center Visiting Scholar at the University of Madison, Wisconsin (2017), as a Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) Visiting Scholar, Montréal, Québec, Canada (2017), as a Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester (2022) and as a Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University (2023-2025).