Professor Jonathan Oldfield PhD

Professor Jonathan Oldfield

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor in Russian Environmental Studies

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2943
Email
j.d.oldfield@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Jon Oldfield’s research is primarily focussed on examining Soviet and Russian socio-environmental thinking as well as scientific debates related to climate change and related phenomena.

Current research includes: Soviet climate science and its intellectual legacies, Russian climate adaptation, the science of geoengineering, and Russian engagements with the Biosphere and Anthropocene as empirical and conceptual entities.

Jon is PI of the multi-institutional ESRC-funded Network Plus: Shifting Global Polarities.

His research is funded by the AHRC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, and British Academy.

Recent books include:

Oldfield, JD,  et al., 2025, Soviet climate science: Domestic Debates, International Collaboration and Future Climates. Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, Routledge, London.

Oldfield, JD, 2021, The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change: Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction. Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, Routledge, London.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), PGCE, PhD

Biography

Jonathan Oldfield has worked at a number of universities within departments of areas studies and geography. These include: University of Nottingham, Queen Mary University of London, University of Glasgow.聽

Teaching

  • Various teaching at Years 1 and 2
  • Most recently, Jon Oldfield has taught a Year 3 module - 'Nature-Society Relations: The Ecological Century'.

Postgraduate supervision

Jonathan Oldfield's research explores Soviet and Russian understandings of physical natural systems with a focus on geoengineering, global environmental change, climate change, and related areas of scientific thought. Jon is very happy to discuss related research areas - feel free to email.

Research

Jonathan Oldfield's research explores Soviet and Russian understandings of physical natural systems with a focus on geoengineering, global environmental change, climate change, and Russian engagements with the Anthropocene as an empirical and conceptual entity. Recent publications include: The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change (2021, Routledge) and The Development of Russian Environmental Thought (with Denis Shaw, 2016, Routledge). His work is funded by the AHRC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust and British Academy.

Other activities

  • Editorial Board, New Area Studies
  • National Advisory Board, Europe-Asia Studies
  • Peer Review College member (academic), Art & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
  • Peer Review College member (academic), Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
  • Executive Committee (Secretary), UK Association for Area Studies Associations

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Oldfield, JD, Jankovich, V, Doose, K, Kruglikova, N, Shaw, DJB & Lajus, J 2025, . Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, no. 49, 1st edn, Routledge, London.

Oldfield, J 2021, . Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, 1st edn, Routledge, London.

Article

Xu, J, Guan, Y, Oldfield, J, Guan, D & Shan, Y 2024, '', Applied Energy, vol. 360, 122837.

Serrano, BA, Gheorghe, LC, Exner, TE, Resch, S, Wolf, C, Himly, M, Falk, A, Bossa, N, Vazquez, S, Papadiamantis, AG, Afantitis, A, Melagraki, G, Maier, D, Saramveis, H, Willighagen, E, Lobaskin, V, Oldfield, JD & Lynch, I 2024, '', RSC Sustainability.

Oldfield, J & Poberezhskaya, M 2023, '', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 14, no. 4, e829.

Oldfield, J 2018, '', Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 60, pp. 41-51.

Oldfield, JD 2016, '', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 682鈥�692.

Oldfield, JD & Shaw, DJB 2015, '', Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 49, pp. 75-84.

Oldfield, J & Shaw, D 2015, '', Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 1-15.

Shaw, DJB & Oldfield, J 2015, '', Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 47, pp. 40-49.

Chapter

Oldfield, J 2021, . in M Domosh, M Heffernan & C Withers (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography. 1 edn, vol. 1, SAGE Publications, pp. 100-116. <>

Oldfield, J 2019, . in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition. Elsevier Korea, pp. 113-118.

Oldfield, J & Doose, K 2018, . in M Poberezhskaya & T Ashe (eds), Climate Change Discourse in Russia: Past and Present. Routledge.

Oldfield, J & Tickle, A 2017, . in Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Professor Francis 'Frank' Carter. Taylor and Francis, pp. 123-139.

Oldfield, J, O'Hara, S & Shaw, D 2016, . in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union: The Post-Socialist States. Taylor and Francis, pp. 137-160.

Expertise

Russian environment; climate change; politics of climate science; environmental policy