Position:

Professor in Russian Environmental Studies/ Head of the Department for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham

Summary:

Jonathan Oldfield was a lecturer in economic geography and general geography in Nottingham, London, Birmingham and senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham, before focusing on Russian Environmental Studies as the Head of Education at the University of Birmingham. He is working on interdisciplinary topics related to Soviet climate science and its intellectual legacies and Soviet contributions to climate change science.

Research Focus:

• Russian understandings of physical natural systems: 
  • Soviet climate science and its intellectual legacies
  • the science of geoengineering in the Soviet /Russian contexts
  • Russian engagements with the Anthropocene as an empirical and conceptual entity