Michael J. Bradshaw

Short Biography

Michael Bradshaw is a Professor of Human Geography 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 resource geography with a particular focus on the economic geography of Russia and global energy security. In 2007, he received the ‘Back Award’ for the Royal Geographical Society in recognition of his research on applied aspects of economic transformation in the post-socialist world. He is the co-editor of An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century, editor of The Russian Far East: Unfulfilled Potential and, with Philip Hanson, editor of Regional Economic Change in Russia. He is Editor in Chief of Wiley-Blackwel Geography Compass, Contributing Editor of the journal Eurasian Geography and Economics and a past editor of Area. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He is also a member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). In October 2008, he started a 3-year programme of research on Global Energy Dilemmas, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, that examines the relationship between energy security, globalisation and climate change.