Michael Bradshaw
Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Michael Bradshaw joined the Institute in August 2008. He is Professor of Human Geography and former Head in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester, UK. His PhD isfrom the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research is on resource geography with a particular focus on the economic geography of Russia and global energy security. In 2007 he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Back Award for his applied research on economic change in post socialist economies. Most recently his research has focused on energy-related issues. For more than a decade he has studied the development of the Sakhalin oil and gas projects in Russia’s Far East. This has led to research on energy security in Northeast Asia. From 2008 to 2011 he was engaged in a programme of research on Global Energy Dilemmas, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship that examined the relationship between energy security, globalisation and climate change. In January 2011 he started a two-year research project on global gas security funded by the UK Energy Research Centre. He is Editor-in-Chief of Wiley-Blackwell's Geography Compass, Contributing-Editor of Eurasian Geography and Economics and a past editor of Area. In addition to his involvement in OIES, he is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. At present, he is Vice President (Research and Higher Education) and a member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).