Michael Bradshaw
Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Michael Bradshaw is Professor of Human Georgraphy and former Head in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester, UK. His PhD is from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Previously he worked in the School of Geography at the University of Birmingham. His research is on the economic geography of Russia, with particular focus on resource development and on the Russian Far East and energy relations with North East Asia. In 2007 he received the 'Back Award' in recognition of his research on applied aspects of economic transformation in the post-socialist world. He is Editor in Chief of Blackwell Geography Compass and Senior Contributing-Editor of the journal 'Eurasian Geography and Econics'. In addition to his involvement in OIES, he is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasian Programme at Chatham House in London. He is also a member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). He is working on a three year programme of research on Global Energy Dilemmas, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.