CV of Stefan Bouzarovski - University of Birmingham

Dr Stefan Bouzarovski
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Head of the Society, Economy and Environment Research Group
Erasmus and International Year Tutor
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), University of Birmingham
Professional qualifications:
CURRICULUM VITAE
• October 2007 – October 2009: Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching for Higher
Education, University of Birmingham;
• October 2000 – April 2003: DPhil, School of Geography, University of Oxford;
• October 1999 – September 2000: M.Sc. (Distinction) in Environmental Change and
Management, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford;
• October 1996 – September 1999: B.A. Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of
Skopje.
Key posts held:
• 2007-2010: Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Birmingham, and Research Associate,
Institute for Energy Research and Policy;
• 2004-2007: Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church College, Oxford; and Senior Research
Associate, School of Geography, University of Oxford;
• 2005-2007: Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford;
• 2003-2005: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University
of London;
Current research interests:
• The role of socio-technical, economic and political dynamics in the rise of energy poverty across
different scales and geographical settings;
• The geopolitics of energy, with a particular emphasis on the regulation of hydrocarbon flows via
spatially-embedded infrastructure networks;
• The local political and social justice dimensions of environmental transitions;
• The manner in which household everyday practices are interwoven with the built fabric of postindustrial
inner cities;
• The development of innovative methods for learning about and representing space and territory,
with a focus on network mapping.
Grants and awards received:
Research grants and fellowships
1. 2012: ‘Postgraduate symposium on energy practices and behaviour’, £1600 from the Midlands
Energy Graduate School (PI);
2. 2012-2013: ‘Investigating residential and business energy consumption via student-led action
research’ (INTREACT), Departmental Teaching Development Grant, ca. £30,000 total from the
Higher Education Academy (PI);
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3. 2012: ‘Planning responses to ‘shock’ and ‘slow-burn’ events: the role of redundancy in regional
resilience’, JSPS/ESRC collaborative seminar, ca £15,000 (Co-I, University of Birmingham-led
project);
4. 2012: ‘Accelerating and disseminating methodological innovation in energy research’
(ADMIER), ca. £30,000 total from the EPSRC via the University of Birmingham’s internal
programme distribution (PI);
5. 2011-2013: ‘The geopolitical economy of global gas governance’, ca. £350,000 total from the
NERC via UKERC (Co-I, approximate amount to University of Birmingham: £35,000);
6. 2011-2012: ‘Energy use among young adults’ (ENYA), £5000 from the Cheshire Lehmann Fund
(PI);
7. 2011: ‘Thermocron iButtons: building a thermal imaging lab’, £8900 from the Annual Giving
Programme Distribution, University of Birmingham (PI);
8. 2011: ‘Building/household events and energy vulnerability: a European perspective’, £5000 total
from the Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Energy Systems, Equity and Vulnerability
(ESRC/EPSRC) (PI);
9. 2011: ‘A reader on low carbon and resilient urbanism’, £13,400 total from the University of
Birmingham’s College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (Co-I, University of Birminghamled
project);
10. 2010/2011: International workshops on ‘Energy poverty: mapping the European research
landscape’ and ‘Energy and resilience in Europe’, Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Energy
Systems, Equity and Vulnerability (ESRC/EPSRC), ca £10,000 total (PI);
11. 2010-2011: ‘Understanding energy vulnerability, resilience and youth transitions’, ca. £3000 total
from the Durham Energy Institute (Co-I);
12. 2010: ‘Use of thermal imaging cameras in undergraduate energy and geography teaching’,
University of Birmingham Alumni Fund, ca. £8,500 total (PI);
13. 2010: ‘Governing energy vulnerability in Southeastern Europe’, French Institute for International
Relations, ca. €12,000 total (PI);
14. 2009-2012: ESRC seminar series on ‘Energy transitions: security, climate, governance’, ca.
£18,000 total (Co-I);
15. 2009: Fellowship on ‘Energy policy, resilience, and the built environment in transition’,
Södertörn University College Stockholm, ca. £15,000 total (PI);
16. 2008-2012: ‘Energy policy risks and spatial development in Central and Eastern Europe’, ca.
£21,000 total from the Czech Ministry of Education (PI);
17. 2008-2010: Network, relation, flow: imaginations of space in Herodotus’ History, ca. £63,000
total from the AHRC (Co-I);
18. 2007: Energy transformations in Eastern and Central Europe, international conference,
University of Warwick, £20,000 in ESRC funding (PI);
19. 2006: Energy poverty in Eastern Europe, research workshop at the UK Energy Research Centre,
ca. £5000 total (PI);
20. 2006-2009: EUDIMENSIONS (Local Dimensions of a Wider European Neighbourhood:
Developing Political Community through Practices and Discourses of Cross-Border Cooperation),
€1.2 million total, EU Sixth Framework Programme (Co-I);
21. 2005-2006: Energy efficiency and climate change in Kazakhstan, £20,000 total, Global
Opportunities Fund (Co-I);
22. 2003-2005: RE-URBAN MOBIL (Reurbanisation under conditions of demographic change),
€1.5 million total, EU Fifth Framework Programme (RF and Workpackage Leader);
23. 2005: Liquid Cities, £2000 from the EPSRC and Royal Geographical Society with IBG (PI);
24. 1999: Travel grant from the Open Society Institute (PI);
25. 1998, 1999: Awards from the Council of Europe, for organising international study sessions at
the European Youth Centre in Budapest and Strasbourg (PI);
26. 1997: Fellowship for Environmental Leadership, VITRA Centre for Sustainable Development,
Slovenia, and Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest (PI);
27. 1997: Small grant from the Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts.
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28. 1996: Publication grant from the Mavrovo National Park, Macedonia (PI);
29. 1996: Small research grant from the Dutch Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia (PI);
30. 1995: Publication grant from the Open Society Institute (PI).
Awards and scholarships
1. 2007: Travel award from the Stockholm School of Economics
2. 2007: Travel award from the University of Cambridge;
3. 2003: Scholarship from the journal Economic Geography, towards participating in the Inaugural
Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Madison, Wisconsin;
4. 2002: Best Postgraduate Paper Award, Economic Geography Specialty Group, Association of
American Geographers;
5. 2000: Larkinson Scholarship, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford;
6. 2000: Scatcherd European Scholarship, University of Oxford;
7. 1999: Dulverton Scholarship, University of Oxford.
Research grants and awards submitted or planned for submission:
1. (submitted, under review) ‘Energy vulnerability and urban transitions in Europe’ (PI), ERC, ca.
£1.4 m;
2. (submitted, under review) ‘Innovative multi-level action against complex socio-spatial
inequalities’ (Co-I, led by a consortium of 9 universities), FP7, ca. £2m;
3. (under development) ‘Capturing the ethereal: a digital archive of atmosphere in the city’ (Co-I,
with Maria Kaika, University of Manchester as PI), AHRC standard grant, ca. £450,000;
4. (under development) ‘Lifecourse transitions and energy use among young people’ (PI, with
Kathrin Hörschelmann, University of Durham as Co-I), ESRC standard grant, ca. £350,000;
5. (under development) ‘Mapping texts through network analysis’ (PI, with Elton Barker, Open
University; Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton; Marco Büchler, University of Leipzig;
Saska Petrova, University of Birmingham; Phil Jones, University of Birmingham as Co-Is),
AHRC Follow-on funding, ca. £120,000;
6. (under development) European Science Foundation COST action proposal (PI: Nazmiye Ozkan,
University of Westminster);
7. (under development) Collaborative network application – Baltic sea foundation (PI: Michael
Gilek, Södertorn University College Stockholm).
Research publications:
Peer-reviewed papers
Sýkora L, Bouzarovski S (2012) Multiple transformations: conceptualising the post-communist
urban transition, Urban Studies 49: 43-60.
Bouzarovski S, Bassin M (2011) Energy and identity: imagining nations through hydrocarbon flows.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101: 783-794.
Petrova S, Čihař M, Bouzarovski S (2011) Local nuances in the perception of nature protection and
place attachment: a tale of two parks. Area 43: 327-335.
Bouzarovski S, Salukvadze R, Gentile M (2011) A socially resilient urban transition? The contested
landscapes of apartment building extensions in two post-communist cities. Urban Studies 48:
2689-2714.
Bouzarovski S, Sarlamanov R, Petrova S (2011) The Governance of Energy Poverty in Southeastern
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Europe. Brussels: French Institute for International Relations.
Bouzarovski S (2011) City profile: Skopje. Cities 28: 265-277.
Thornes J, Bloss W, Bouzarovski S, Cai X, Chapman L, Clark J, Dessai S, Du S, van der Horst D,
Kendall M, Kidd C, Randalls C (2010) Communicating the value of atmospheric services.
Meteorological Applications 17: 243-250.
Poputoaia D, Bouzarovski S (2010) Regulating district heating in Romania: legislative challenges
and energy efficiency barriers. Energy Policy 38: 3820-3829.
Haase A, Kabisch S, Steinführer A, Bouzarovski S, Hall R, Ogden P (2010) Emergent spaces of
reurbanisation: exploring the demographic dimension of inner-city residential change in a
European setting. Population, Space and Place 16: 443-463.
Bouzarovski S (2010) Entangled boundaries, scales and trajectories of change: post-communist
energy reforms in critical perspective. European Urban and Regional Studies 17: 167-182.
Bouzarovski S (2010) Energy poverty in transition. Political Thought 8: 51-56.
Bouzarovski S, Haase A, Hall R, Kabisch S, Steinfuehrer A, Ogden PE, Hall R (2010) Household
structure, migration trends and residential preferences in inner-city León, Spain: unpacking
the demographies of reurbanization. Urban Geography 31: 211-235.
Barker ETE, Bouzarovski S, Pelling CBR, Isaksen L (2010) Mapping an ancient historian in a digital
age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA). Leeds International
Classical Journal 9: 1-24.
Bouzarovski S, Konieczny M (2010) Landscapes of paradox: public discourses and state policies in
Poland’s relationship with the Nord Stream pipeline. Geopolitics 15: 1-21.
Petrova S, Bouzarovski - Buzar S, Cihař M (2009) Conservationist or fashionista? Urban dwellers’
expectations from national parks in the Republic of Macedonia. Urbani Izziv/Urban
Challenge 20: 128-135.
Bouzarovski S (2009) East-Central Europe’s changing energy landscapes: a place for geography.
Area 41: 452-463.
Bouzarovski S (2009) Building events in inner-city Gdańsk, Poland: exploring the socio-spatial
construction of agency in built form. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27:
840-858.
Bouzarovski S (2009) Landscapes of flexibility: negotiating the everyday; an introduction.
Geojournal 74: 503-506.
Petrova S, Bouzarovski - Buzar S, Cihař M (2009) From inflexible national legislation to flexible
local governance: management practices in the Pelister National Park, Republic of
Macedonia. Geojournal 74: 589-598.
Buzar S (2008) Breaking the waves: a mobile conference for a fluid urban geography. Cities 25: 176-
177.
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Buzar S (2008) Energy, environment and international financial institutions: the EBRD’s activities in
the Western Balkans. Geografiska Annaler B 90: 409-431.
Buzar S (2008) Towards a critical geography of flexibility: facets of adaptability in society and
space. Geography Compass 2: 1075-1094.
Buzar S (2007) When homes become prisons: the relational spaces of post-socialist energy poverty.
Environment and Planning A 39: 1908-1925.
Buzar S, Ogden PE, Hall R, Haase A, Kabisch S, Steinfuehrer A (2007) Splintering urban
populations: emergent landscapes of reurbanisation in four European cities. Urban Studies
44: 651-677.
Buzar S, Ogden PE, Hall R (2007) Beyond gentrification: the reurbanisation of Bologna.
Environment and Planning A 39: 64-85.
Buzar S (2007) ‘Hidden’ geographies of energy poverty in post-socialism: between institutions and
households. Geoforum 38: 224-240.
Buzar S (2006) Estimating the extent of domestic energy deprivation through household expenditure
surveys. CEA Journal of Economics 1: 5-14.
Buzar S (2006) Geographies of Ethnopolitics: Unravelling the Spatial and Political Economies of
‘Ethnic Conflict’. Occasional Paper no. 7/06. South East European Studies at Oxford, St.
Antony’s College.
Buzar S (2005) The institutional trap in the Czech rental sector: nested circuits of power, space and
inequality. Economic Geography 82: 381-405.
Buzar S, Ogden PE, Hall R (2005) Households matter: the quiet demography of urban
transformation. Progress in Human Geography 29: 413-436.
Buzar S (2004) The growing role of NGOs in a neoliberalising state: environmental education in the
Republic of Macedonia. International Research in Geographical and Environmental
Education 13: 79-89
Buzarovski S (2001) Local environmental action plans and the ‘glocalisation’ of post-socialist
governance. Geojournal 55: 557-568.
Research monographs
Buzar S (2007) Energy Poverty in Eastern Europe: Hidden Geographies of Deprivation. Aldershot:
Ashgate.
Buzarovski S (1995) Mavrovo National Park. Skopje: Friends of the Earth.
Book chapters
Bouzarovski S, Petrova S (2011) Can the urban public sphere in Eastern and Central Europe deliver
participatory climate change protection? In: Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Brandenburg (2011)
Participation in Urban Climate Protection: Answers of European Municipalities. Potsdam:
Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Brandenburg 14-20.
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Bouzarovski S (2010) Energy transit in Central and Eastern Europe: interpreting Polish reactions to
the Nord Stream pipeline through a spatial-political lens. In: Franke A, Gawrich A,
Windwehr J (eds.) Are Energy Resources a Curse? Rentierism and Energy Policy in Post-
Soviet States. Opladen: Budrich Verlag, 201-213.
Buzar S, Papastamou A (2009) Network theory and town twinning: implications for urban
development policy in post-socialist Europe. In: Michalski T, Kuczabski A (eds.) Selected
Aspects of Transformation in Countries of Central and Central-Eastern Europe. Pelplin:
Bernardinum.
Buzar S (2009) Fluid households, flexible cities: research and policy responses to the new
demographies of urban change in postsocialism. In: Lesechko M, Mądry C (eds.) Economic,
Social and Administrative Changes in Central and Eastern European Countries. Lviv:
Regional Institute of Public Administration, 73-87.
Buzar S, Grabkowska M (2006) The social reproduction of flexibility in the housing environment:
stories from inner-city Gdańsk. In: Platje J, Slodczyk J, Filho WL (eds.) Current Issues of
Sustainable Development - Priorities and Trends. Economic and Environmental Studies 8.
Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski, 157-175.
Buzar S (2005) Post-socialist urban ecosystems in flux: the socio-spatial differentiation of three
Budapest districts. In: Sagań I, Smith DM (eds.) Society, Economy, Environment – Towards
the Sustainable City. Gdańsk: Bogucki Wydawnyctwo Naukowe, 61-75.
Buzarovski S, Stojmilov A (2002) Macedonia. In: Carter F, Turnock D (eds.) Environmental
Problems of East Central Europe. London: Routledge, 347-365.
Research publications accepted for publication, or in press:
Peer-reviewed articles and books
Barker ETE, Pelling CBR, Bouzarovski S, Isaksen L (2012) (editors) New Worlds out of Old Texts:
Developing Techniques for the Spatial Analysis of Ancient Narratives. Oxford and New
York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming (I will also co-write one of the chapters in the
book, in addition to the introduction and conclusion).
Bouzarovski S, Petrova S, Sarlamanov S (2012) Energy poverty policies in the EU: a critical
perspective. Energy Policy, forthcoming.
Petrova S, Bouzarovski S (2012) Communities in Transition: Rescaling Environmental Politics and
Public Participation. Ashgate, forthcoming.
Book chapters
Bouzarovski S, Petrova S (2012) The socio-technical production of advanced marginality. In:
Bickerstaff K et al. (ed) Energy Justice in a Changing Climate. London: Zed Books.
Barker ETE, Bouzarovski S, Pelling CBR, Isaksen L (2010) Extracting, investigating and
representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea. In: Tsetskhladze
GR (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
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Barker ETE, Bouzarovski S, Pelling CBR, Isaksen L (2010) On using a digital text in modern
humanities research: the case of Herodotus’ Histories. In: Mahony S, Bodard, G (eds.) Digital
Research and the Study of Classical Antiquity. Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming.
Bouzarovski S, Petrova S (2010) entries on ‘Bulgaria’ and ‘Macedonia’. In: Golson GJ (ed)
Encyclopedia of Energy. Pasadena: Salem Press, forthcoming.
Petrova S, Bouzarovski S (2010) entries on ‘Czech Republic’ and ‘Slovakia’. In: Golson GJ (ed)
Encyclopedia of Energy. Pasadena: Salem Press, forthcoming.
Other significant research outputs:
Reviews
Bouzarovski S (2012) Domesticating Neoliberalism. Area 44: 127-128.
Buzar S (2004) Edgeless Cities. Regional Studies 38: 865-866.
Buzar S (2004) International Handbook of Urban Systems. Progress in Human Geography 28: 679-
680.
Buzarovski S (1995) More than just a pretty graph. IEEE Multimedia 2: 4.
Research reports (selected)
Čihař M, Görner T, Petrova S, Bartoš L, Buzar S (2008) Monitoring of selected indicators of
sustainable development in the central parts of the Šumava and Krkonoše protected areas.
Prague: Institute for Environmental Studies.
Buzar S (2006) Towards a sustainable energy future for Kazakhstan: lessons from Poland and the
Czech Republic. Energy Efficiency and Climate Change in Kazakhstan.
Buzar S, Veredova N. (2005) Reconciling energy policy priorities in Kazakhstan: four scenarios in
comparative perspective. Energy Efficiency and Climate Change in Kazakhstan.
Buzar S, Ogden PE, Hall R, Haase A, Kabisch S, Steinfuehrer A (2005) Re Urban Mobil Work
Package Three: Final Report, Demography. Reurbanisation Under Conditions of
Demographic Change. (Available online at http://www.re-urban.com)
Magazine articles (selected)
Barker ETE, Bouzarovski S, Pelling CBR, Isaksen L (2010) Herodotus Earth: Mapping and
networking the Histories. Iris 2010 (http://www.irismagazine.org/).
Petrova S, Bouzarovski S, Papastamou A (2009) The environmental and social implications of
energy governance. Nuova Energia 7: 79-81.
Bouzarovski S (2009) Energy reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. Geography Review 23: 16-17.
Buzar S (2006) Energy poverty in Macedonia and the Czech Republic. Beyond Transition 17: 15-17.
Buzar S (2002) Car-free cities for all. Carbusters 15: 25.
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Buzarovski S (2001) Values, training, and the environment. Youth-Training-Europe 4: 27-29.
Electronic publications
Buzarovski S (1995) Icon on Silver. Skopje: Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts.
Other significant planned research outputs:
Bouzarovski S (2011) Retrofitted Cities: Practising Resilience in the Built Environment of the Home,
book proposal under review.
Bridge G, Bradshaw MJ, Bouzarovski S, Eyre N (2012) Geographies of energy transition: space,
place and the low-carbon economy. Energy Policy, under review.
Thornbush M, Golubchikov O, Bouzarovski (2011) Low carbon cities as a new socio-technical
paradigm: taking stock of research and practice. Global Environmental Change, under
review.
Golubchikov O, Bouzarovski S, Rogers R (2011) A Reader on Low Carbon and Resilient Cities,
book proposal under review.
Petrova S, Bouzarovski S, Posová D, Sýkora L, House A (2011) Discursive framings of low-carbon
urban transitions: the contested geographies of ‘satellite settlements’ in the Czech Republic.
Urban Studies, under review.
Sýkora L, Bouzarovski S (2009) The neglected present: new lock-ins and path-dependencies in postcommunist
urban and regional development. International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, under review.
Invited presentations (selected):
• (plenary speaker) ‘International urban retrofit workshop’, EPSRC, Manchester, 13 th September
2012;
• (invited seminar) ‘The politics of resource depletion’, School of Government and Society,
University of Birmingham, 6 th June 2012;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Fuel poverty in Europe’ conference, National Energy Action, London, 30 th
May 2012;
• (invited seminar) ‘Unpacking urban retrofits’, 2011-2012 seminar series, Sustainability Research
Institute, University of Leeds, 26 th March 2012;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Public dialogue for the sustainable use of energy’ conference, German
Technical Co-operation, Skopje, 20 th March 2012;
• (selected paper) ‘Energy strategies in CEE: Creating a sustainable energy future within the EU’
workshop, University of Glasgow, 2 nd of March 2012;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Baltic energy dilemmas’ conference, University of Stockholm, 24 th
November 2011;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Cohesion policy: investing in energy efficiency in buildings’ workshop, DG
Regio, Brussels, 29 th November 2011;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Energy justice in a changing climate: defining an agenda’ conference, King’s
College London, 10 th November 2011;
• (invited seminar) ‘The energy precariat: Unpacking the heating practices of transient urban
populations’, School of Geography, University of Plymouth, 1 st November 2011;
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• (plenary speaker) ‘Towards a transatlantic dialogue on energy efficiency, energy poverty and
fairness in climate policy’ workshop, Durham (North Carolina), 7 th October 2011;
• (selected paper) ‘Energy and people: futures, complexity and challenges’ conference, University
of Oxford, 21 st September 2011;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Achieving social, environmental and economic sustainability through energy
efficiency’ conference, Zagreb, 30 th September 2011;
• (selected paper) ‘Nature TM Inc? Questioning the market panacea in environmental policy and
conservation’ conference, The Hague, 2 nd July 2011;
• (invited seminar) ‘The political economy of energy poverty in Southeastern Europe’, LSE
Hellenic Observatory, London, 28 th June 2010;
• (invited seminar) ‘Europe’s new energy underclass’, French Institute for International Relations,
Brussels, 1 st June 2010;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Climate and energy policy challenges in the Balkans’ workshop, Konrad
Adenauer Foundation, Skopje, 8 th April 2010;
• (selected paper) ‘Energy transitions in an interdependent world: what and where are the future
social science research agendas?’, University of Sussex, 25 th February 2010;
• (invited seminar) ‘The effects of the financial crisis on the EU’s Climate and Energy Package’,
European Research Institute Cross College Seminar, Birmingham, 27 th January 2010;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Towards a critical geography of the energy transition’, ESRC Seminar Series
on Energy Transitions, University of Leicester, 26 th November 2009;
• (invited seminar) ‘Demographies of energy deprivation in post-communist cities’, Stockholm
Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, 8 th December 2009;
• (invited seminar) ‘Mapping networks’, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala
University, 4 th December 2009;
• (invited seminar) ‘The neglected present’, Sociology Evenings, Prague, 30 th November 2009;
• (invited seminar) ‘Landscapes of paradox’, Department of Social and Economic Geography,
University of Umeå, 20 th November 2009;
• (invited seminar) ‘The environmental and social implications of municipal service reform’,
University of Turin, 18 th September 2009;
• (plenary speaker) ‘The Balkans’ contested energy landscapes: entangling infrastructure networks
and geopolitical relations’, Spaces of Nationhood: Landscape and Identity after Communism,
CEELBAS workshop, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 9 th September, 2009;
• (plenary speaker) Annual Meeting, European Network of Housing Researchers, Prague, 1 st July
2009;
• (invited seminar) ‘Flexibility and its others: diverse articulations of housing dynamism in postcommunist
inner-city districts’, Faculty of Science, Prague, 19 th May 2009;
• (plenary speaker) Annual Symposium, Economic Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG,
London, 7 th May 2009;
• (plenary speaker) ‘European transboundary spaces’ conference, University of Iaşi, 5 th March
2009;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Affordability of basic public utilities: regulation and poverty policies’
workshop, Florence School of Regulation, 3 rd October 2008;
• (plenary speaker) National Energy Action Annual Conference, Birmingham, 17 th September
2008;
• (selected paper) ‘Second international urban geographies of post-communist states’ workshop,
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, 8 th December 2007
• (panel speaker) ‘Space, security, and identity in Eastern Europe, CREES Annual Conference,
Windsor Park, 8 th June 2008;
• (selected paper) ‘Everyday life in the global city’ conference, Manchester Institute of Social &
Spatial Transformations, 9 th July 2007;
• (selected paper) ‘The new social and economic geography of Europe’ research workshop,
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University of Cambridge, 4 th April 2007;
• (invited seminar) ‘Liquid architectures: building cities without gravity’, Oxford University
Centre for the Environment, 12 th February 2007;
• (invited seminar) ‘Geographies of ethnopolitics: unravelling the spatial and political economies
of ethnic conflict’, SEESOX Seminar, St Anthony’s College, Oxford, 11 th May 2006;
• (selected paper) ‘Happiness and post-conflict cultures’ colloquium, University of Nottingham,
6 th May 2006;
• (invited seminar) ‘Households matter: the quiet demography of urban transformation’, School of
Geography, Queen Mary University of London, 18 th January 2005;
• (plenary speaker) ‘Sustainable development in Europe’ workshop, Council of Europe Youth
Centre, Strasbourg, 15 th December 2000.
Editorial and reviewing assignments:
• Since 2009: Member, Editorial Board, Acta Geografica Universitatis Carolinae;
• 2009: Editor, Geojournal special issue on Landscapes and Flexibility;
• Since 2006: reviewer for the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Geoforum,
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Environment and Planning A, Environment
and Planning B, Environment and Planning C, International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, European Urban and Regional Studies, Geographical Review, Journal of Urban
Affairs, Energy Policy, Area, European Security, Borderlands, Journal of Cleaner Production,
Geografie, Identities; Routledge; Ashgate; ESRC, EPSRC, NERC, Grant Agency of the Czech
Republic, Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank, Government of Ireland Postdoctoral
Fellowships;
• 1998: Member, Editorial Board, Environment;
• Since 2006: Member, Editorial Board, CEA Journal of Economics;
• 1994-1999: Executive Editor, The Macedonian Times.
Bibliometric data (as of 29/2/2012)
H-index: 5 (not including book citations)
Total citations in Web of science: 109
Total citations in Google scholar: 259
Knowledge exchange:
• Since 2004: Visiting Professor: Department of Economic Geography, Institute of Geography,
University of Gdańsk, Poland;
• 2011: Guest Lecturer, College of Europe, Bruges;
• 2010/2011: Guest Lecturer, Humboldt University, Berlin;
• 2010: Guest Lecturer, Chevening Fellowship Programme on ‘The Economics of Energy’ funded
by the British Council and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Institute for Energy Research
and Policy, Birmingham;
• 2009: Guest Professor, Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, Stockholm;
• 2009: Visiting Researcher, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University
College Stockholm;
• 2009-2011: Core member, Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Energy Systems, Equity and
Vulnerability;
• 2008-2011: Visiting Professor, Geography Section, Faculty of Science, Charles University in
Prague, Czech Republic;
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• 2009: Guest Lecturer, Twelfth International Summer School in Applied Environmental and
Regulatory Economics, Foundation for the Environment, Turin;
• 2009: Visiting Academic, Universitas 21 Summer School on Climate Change Adaptation,
University of Queensland, Brisbane;
• Since 2007: Research Associate, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of
Birmingham;
• 2006: Policy Consultant, Ministry for Local Self-Government, Skopje, Government of the
Republic of Macedonia;
• 2001: Policy Consultant, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Republic of Croatia;
• 1999-2003: Member of the Pool of Trainers of the European Youth Forum, Brussels;
• 1998: External Analyst, Local Environmental Action Plan, Skopje Municipality, Ministry for the
Environment of the Republic of Macedonia.
Widening participation:
• 2012: Invited outreach presentation, North London Collegiate School;
• 2012: Interview for the New Statesman’s Perspectives on Energy series
(http://www.newstatesman.com/energy/perspectives-on-energy), accompanied by a youtube clip
with more than 800 unique hits to date (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJzO1q-_1uY);
• Since 2011: Editor and manager of the Energy, Society and Place Research Unit blog, with more
than 500 unique hits to date (http://espru.wordpress.com/);
• Since 2011: Editor and manager of the Energy Geographies Working Group blog, with more
than 5300 unique hits to date (http://energygeographiesworkinggroup.wordpress.com/);
• 2011: Author of the Birmingham perspective
(http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/impact/perspective/climate-change.aspx)
• 2010: ‘Impoverished SE Europeans turn to wood for heating’, Interview for the Euractiv internet
portal (http://www.euractiv.com/enlargement/impoverished-se-europeans-turn-wood-heatingnews-494816)
- subsequently carried by more than 20 internet news outlets;
• 2009: Invited outreach presentation, Chase Terrace Technology College;
• 2009: ‘Europe must act as one voice on energy’, Interview for Radio Free Europe
(http://www.rferl.org/content/Expert_Says_EU_Must_Act_As_One_Voice_On_Energy/173732
6.html) - subsequently carried by more than 10 internet news outlets.
Doctoral supervision:
Ongoing
1. Septin Puji Astuti, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (Indonesian Development
Bank scholarship, since 2011): Energy poverty in Indonesia;
2. Yixin Li, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (Li Siguang scholarship, since 2011):
Urban energy consumption and social justice in China;
3. Kurtulus Hatinoglu, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (self-funded, since 2011):
Energy security in Turkey;
4. Miguel Torres Garcia, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (self-funded, since 2011):
Theorising urban public space;
5. Komalirani Yenneti, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (U of B school studentship,
Hills Scholarship, since 2010): Social justice implications of low-carbon interventions in
Bangalore, India;
6. Tihomir Topuzovski, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (U of B school studentship
and LES overseas scholarship, since 2009): Territorialisation and geopolitics in the Western
Balkans;
7. Stéphanie Garstin, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (CEELBAS studentship, since
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2009): Nuclear power development and local public participation in the Pomerania region,
Poland;
8. Akeem Lawal, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (Petroleum Development Fund
Scholarship, since 2008): Environmental and social issues in the Nigerian maritime oil and gas
sector;
9. Darren Roberts, PhD in geography, University of Birmingham (U of B school studentship, since
2011): Music, power and the city;
10. Stanislaw Rzyski, PhD in economic geography, University of Gdansk (since 2007): Changes and
spatial structure of quality of life in urban areas;
11. Robert Sarlamanov, PhD in mechanical engineering, University of Skopje (since 2010): Energy
poverty in Southeastern Europe.
Completed
1. 2010: Maja Grabkowska, PhD in economic geography, University of Gdańsk (with Iwona
Sagan): Socio-spatial consequences of demographic change in Central and Eastern European
cities;
2. 2009: David Graham, DPhil in geography, University of Oxford (with Ceri Peach): Structural
and behavioural change in British Jewry (AHRC studentship).
External engagement:
• 2012: Organiser of sessions on ‘Re-scaling energy security’ and ‘Encounters with resilience’ at
the Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG;
• Since 2011: Secretary and founding member of the Energy Geographies Working Group of the
Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG);
• Since 2011: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy;
• Since 2011: External examiner, MSc Environmental Governance, University of Manchester;
• 2011: Organiser of sessions on ‘Unpacking energy and resilience’ at the Annual Conference of
the RGS-IBG;
• 2002-2003: Postgraduate representative and committee member, Post-socialist Geographies
Research Group of the RGS-IBG;
• 2008: Organiser of sessions on ‘Landscapes of flexibility’ at the Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers;
• Since 2001: Fellow of the RGS-IBG;
• 1997-2000: Chairperson of the Federation of the Young European Greens, Brussels;
• 1998: Advisory Board Member, Youth Programme, Open Society Institute Macedonia;
• 1997-1999: Co-ordinator of the Mediterranean Political Ecology Platform, Athens;
• 1997: Member of the International Co-ordination Team of European Youth For Action,
Amsterdam;
• 1996-1998: Project co-ordinator, Mavrovo National Park Campaign, Friends of the Earth
Macedonia.
Contribution to university management and staff development:
• 2012: Head of the Society, Economy and Environment Research Group, GEES;
• Since 2011: Managing Committee member, Midlands Low Carbon Energy Development
Network (responsible, inter alia, for the organisation of a range of workshops and conferences
among the Universities of Birmingham, Nottingham and Loughborough);
• Since 2011: Champion of the Policy and Society Theme within the cross-college Energy in
Birmingham initiative;
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• Since 2011: Erasmus and International Year Tutor, GEES;
• Since 2011: Co-ordinator of the Energy, Society and Place Research Unit, GEES;
• 2010: Panel member, Sub-Thematic Review of Europe-Related Taught Provision, University of
Birmingham;
• Since 2009: Chair, Tabula Rasa seminar series, GEES;
• Since 2009: Founder of the Thermal Imaging lab, GEES;
• 2008-2011: Second year geography programme tutor, GEES;
• 2007-2010: Member of Web Strategy Group, GEES;
• 2007-2008: Member of School Liaisons Team, GEES;
• 2007: Academic advisor, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Policy, University of Oxford;
• 2004-2007: Admissions Committee Member, Christ Church College, Oxford (responsible for
interviewing geography candidates).
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