Department of Geography

Professor of Human Geography

Telephone:
0116 252 3842 Fax:
0116 252 3854 Email:
mjb41@le.ac.uk
Room:
Bennett Building F39

At present my research is organised around two major research themes: the territorial cohesion of the Russian Federation (this relates to the wider themes on Postcolonial Worlds and Governance, Power and Space); and global energy dilemmas (this relates to the Nature, Environment and Society theme). In one way or another, these two themes involve the inter-relationships between energy security, globalization, economic transformation, regional change, resource-based development, sustainable development and climate change. In recent years four projects have been completed and two are on going. I have also been involved in a number of ESRC funded seminars and a new seminar series entitled the Geographies of Energy Transition is just beginning.

Completed Projects

The Russian Far East: Resource Frontier for the Pacific Century?

Understanding Patterns of Regional Economic Change in Russia

A New Economic Geography of Russia

A New Russian Heartland

Current Projects

The Territorial Cohesion of the Russian Federation: Globalization, Regional Change and Resource Abundance This research builds on previous work on regional economic change in Russia and is currently considering the following issues: the regional impacts of foreign trade and investment, regional economic performance and inequality, geographical dimensions of Russia’s demographic crisis, the geographical consequences of Russia’s resource abundance and the geography of Russia’s new economy. In sum, this research activity is concerned with the geographical dimensions of Russia’s resource-based economy and implications for domestic policy-making and on Russia’s place in the World. The empirical focus of this research is principally Siberia and the Russian Far East, but it speaks to wider debates on globalization, sustainable development and energy security. This research also addresses a wider concern to develop a critical approach to resource geography (see Hayter, Barnes and Bradshaw 2003, below). This research also extends an earlier ESRC project that examined resource-based development in the Russian Far East (see above). Recent work has focused on the oil and gas projects being developed offshore of Sakhalin Island. The Sakhalin-2 project is one of the largest integrated oil and gas projects in the World and has provided a critical test case for foreign investment in Russia’s oil and gas industry. Recent research has examined the global Environmental NGO campaign against the Sakhalin-2 project and this has led to a consideration of issues relating to sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and the role of international financial institutions (see Bradshaw 2007 below). My Sakhalin research has also involved a collaborative project with Gavin Bridge (Manchester) and Andy Wood (Kentucky) that examined the geographies of knowledge in the oil and gas exploration industry (my component of the project is funded by the British Academy).

Presentations and Articles about the Sakhalin Oil and Gas Projects

Global Energy Dilemmas: Energy Security, Globalisation and Climate Change The mainstay of this research activity is a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship entitled: Global Energy Dilemmas: A Geographical Analysis, which runs from October 2008 to September 2011.This project examines the relationship between energy security, globalisation, and climate change. The first phase develops a theoretical framework to examine the various ‘energy dilemmas’ that face the World. It also examines the historical and geographical development of the global energy system. The second phase delivers a set of regional and country case studies that span the globe that examine specific energy issues and their interrelationships with globalisation and climate change. The project concludes by examining the policy challenges posed by the variety of global dilemmas and assesses the ability of current national and international organisations to address them. Project outputs will include: journal articles, working papers, an on-line bibliography and a book and a website.

External Activities

Current Research Seminars

• Geographies of Energy Transition: Security, Climate Governance
  ESRC Funded Seminar, October 2009-September 2011.

Completed Seminars

• Energy Transformations in Central and East Europe
  ESRC Funded Seminar, 31st January to 2nd February 2007
• Trans-sectoral Partnerships, Sustainability Research and the Oil and Gas Industry in Russia ESRC funded seminar, October 2004-September 2006. This was a joint project with Emma Wilson then at the Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge) and Andy Gouldson then at the LSE.

Academic Service

• Ordinary Member for Research and HE, Council, Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG) (2008-2011), also member of Research Committee.

Honorary Positions

• Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London.
• Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Center for Russian and East European Studies, The University of Birmingham
• Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford.

Current Editorial Positions

• Editor in Chief (Human Geography): Geography Compass
• Contributing Editor: Eurasian Geography and Economics
  
• Member of Editorial Board of Sibirica: The Journal of Siberian Studies
  
• Member of Editorial Board of Applied Geography
  
• Member of Editorial Board of Fennia

Past Editorial Positions

• Honorary Editor of Area, a journal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geography) (2000-2005)
  
• Co-Editor, Eurasian Geography and Economics (2005-2006)
  
• Member of Editorial Board, Book Series of the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG) (2003-2007).
  
• Senior Correspondent, Pacific Asia Oil and Gas Report, Alaska, USA (1999-2008).

PhD Supervision

Selected Publications

Edited Books

Daniels P., Bradshaw M., Shaw, D. and Sidaway J. (eds.) (2008) An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century (3rd Edition). Harlow: Pearsons.

Daniels P. W., Leyshon A., Bradshaw M. J. and Beaverstock J. V. (eds.) (2007) Geographies of the New Economy. London: Routledge.

Bradshaw, M.J. and Stenning, A.C. (eds) (2003): East Central Europe and The Former Soviet Union: The Post Socialist Economies. Harlow: Pearson/DARG Regional Development Series).

Book Chapters

Bradshaw M. J. (2006) ‘Russian and transnational energy companies: conflict and cooperation in Pacific Russia.’ In Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations, Edited by Wenger A., Perovic J. and R. Orttung R.W. London: Routledge, 133-154

Cooper J.M. and Bradshaw, M.J. (2006): Russia's New Economy. In Geographies of the New Economy. Edited by Daniels, P.W., Beaverstock, J.V., Bradshaw, M.J. and Leyshon A. London: Routledge, 170-194.

Bradshaw M.J. (2008): Globalization, Regional Change and the Territorial Cohesion of the Russian Federation. In Russia and Globalization, Identity and Security and Society in an Era of Change. Edited by In Blum, D. Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center 79-110

Stern J. and Bradshaw M. (2008)‘Russian and Central Asian Gas Supply for Asia.’ In Natural Gas in Asia 2nd edition. Edited by Stern, P. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 220-278.

Bradshaw M. J. (2010) ‘UK energy dilemmas: energy security and climate change. In Reading the Economy: the UK in the 21st Century. Edited by Coe N.M. and Jones A. London: Sage. (draft PDF)

Journal Articles

Bradshaw M. J. (2009) ‘The Geopolitics of Global Energy Security,’ Geography Compass, (In press).

Bradshaw M. J. (2009) ‘The Kremlin, National Champions and International Oil Companies: The Political Economy of the Russian Oil and Gas Industry, Geopolitics of Energy, 31, 2-14. (PDF)

Bradshaw M. J. (2009) ‘On the contribution of David M Hooson to geographical research on the Soviet Union and Russia’, Geopolitics, Vol. 14, No. 1, 176-181.

Bradshaw M. J. (2008) ‘The geography of Russia’s new political economy’, New Political Economy, 13, 193-201.

Bradshaw M. J. (2008) ‘The Sakhalin Saga: energy, politics and the environment’, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 40, 56-68. (PDF)

Bradshaw M. J. (2007) ‘The Greening of Global Project Finance: The Case of the Sakhalin-II Oil and Gas Project, The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 51, 255-279.

Bradshaw, M.J. (2006): Observations on the Geographical Dimensions of Russia's Resource Abundance, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 47, 724-746.

Bradshaw M.J. and Prendergrast, J. (2005): The Russian Heartland Revisited: An Assessment of the Impact of Russia’s Transformation, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 46, 83-122.

Hayter, R., Barnes, T.J. and Bradshaw M.J. (2003): Relocating Resource Peripheries in the Core of Economic Geography’s Theorizing: Rationale and Agenda, Area, 35, 15-23.

A full list of publications is available in PDF format by clicking here.