Biography

Prof. Bradshaw's academic background is in human geography. He completed his undergraduate training at the University of Birmingham (BSc), earned an MA from the University of Calgary (Alberta), and obtained his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining WBS in 2014, he held posts at the University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester.  He works at the interface between economic and political geography, business and management and international relations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (and past Vice President) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is currently an Associate Fellow at the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House, London and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

Research Interests

Prof. Bradshaw's research on the geopolitical economy of global energy has examined the role of foreign investment in Russia's oil and gas industry (with a focus on Sakhalin); global energy dilemmas and the interrelationship between energy security climate change and economic globalization; and the challenges to the UK's gas security. He is the author of Global Energy Dilemmas (2014), co-editor of Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (2015), and co-author of Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective (2018) and Natural Gas (2020, Polity Press). He recently completed  a 5-year programme of research on the UK's energy transition in global context for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC 4) and now working on the geopolitics of fossil fuel phase out as part of UKERC 24-29. In early 2026 he published a book on the geopolitics of energy system transformation with Bristol University Press.