DPhil Geography, University of Oxford

MSc Land Management, Royal Institute of Technology

Master (with Distinction) Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Oleg Golubchikov studied environmental geography at Moscow University and land economy at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm before receiving his Doctorate in human geography from the University of Oxford (as a fully funded Clarendon Scholar, at the college of Christ Church). After he obtained his PhD and prior to his appointment as a Lecturer in Urban Resilience at Birmingham in 2010 he was a Research Associate and ESRC Research Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford.

He has held various visiting academic posts at leading universities internationally, including University College London (UCL), the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University in Helsinki (UNU-WIDER), and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH).

He is currently Senior Visiting Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

Dr Golubchikov has many years of consulting experience, advising the United Nations and other international organisations and businesses on aspects of sustainable urban development, housing and energy policies.

Dr Golubchikov’s teaching is research-led. He currently runs the following principal modules:

• Theoretical Themes for Geographers (MSci)
• Capitalism and Transition (Year 3)
• Post-Socialist Transformation: Moscow (Year 3)
• Tutorials (Undergraduate)
• Dissertation supervision (Undergraduate)

He has also contributed to the following modules:

• Resilience and Urban Living (Postgraduate)
• Environmental Assessment and Management (Year 2)

Dr Golubchikov is Erasmus and International Year Tutor at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Dr Golubchikov welcomes new doctoral researchers in the areas related to his research interests. Potential students can contact him directly. Specific projects, including those with funding opportunities, are usually advertised in November at his projects’ page on the FindAPhD website.

Current doctoral research supervision at the University of Birmingham 

Mr Bin Li (2012 - ) (with L. Andres and P. Jones), Property Rights and Multiple Accessibilities in Institutional and Spatial Changes of Chinese Urban Village’s Regeneration (funded by the Li Siguang Scholarship)

Mr Moniruzzaman Md (2012 - ) (with P. Lee) Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Challenges in Bangladesh (funded by the Bangladeshi Government)

Mr Colin Lorne (2011- ) (with P. Jones) Exploring the Multi-Sensory Design of Interior Spaces (funded by ESRC)

Mr Tae Suk Kang (2011 - ) (with P. Lee) Social Exclusion on Public Rental Housing Estates in South Korea (funded by the South Korean Government)

Ms Komalirani Yenneti (2010 - ) (with R. Day) Social Justice Implications of Low-Carbon Interventions in Gujarat, India (funded by the University)

Dr Golubchikov’s research interests are concerned with the following areas:

The political economy of post-socialist cities: Urban and regional development under post-socialist “capitalisms”, focusing on social and economic transformations, housing policy, urban and regional governance and their relations with uneven development and social inequality.

Social and urban resilience: Social and economic vulnerabilities and adaptive and transformative strategies of urban communities coping with the enduring pressures of social or spatial exclusion, especially in the context of gentrification, displacement, as well as forced post-conflict immigration. 

Low carbon cities and sustainable housing: Relationships between policies for sustainable cities, energy, and climate change – especially policies for energy-efficient housing and low-carbon/climate-neutral cities, as well as related international policy practices and policy transfer. 

Politics of urban decarbonisation: Socio-spatial implications and political contestations emerging from the establishment of the low-carbon socio-technical paradigm for cities and exploring alternative pathways through engagement with holistic and integral perspectives on sustainable cities and sustainable housing.

 

Current and recent research grants

2012-2015: Reconfiguration of cities in post-Soviet regions, Leibniz Association – Co-I (with Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)

2011-2013: Change on the edge: the contentious transformations of post-Soviet metropolitan periphery, British Academy – PI

2011-2013: Policy guide to sustainable housing, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) –PI

2011-2013: Coping with marginality and exclusion: can refugees communities successfully integrate into mainstream urban societies in Georgia?, Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN) – International Mentor for a research team at Tbilisi State University

2011-2012: A reader on low-carbon and resilient cities, Birmingham Centre for Resilience Research and Education of the University of Birmingham – PI

2011: Internationalising higher education: urban development in Russia, British Council Internationalizing Higher Education Grant – co-PI (with Dr John Round, Dr Lauren Andres, Dr Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko)

2011: Towards a thermal imaging lab, Circles of Influence Campaign, the Annual Giving Programme, University of Birmingham – co-PI (with Prof. Stefan Bouzarovski and Dr Rosie Day)

2010-2012: Various travel grants for invited overseas conferences and meetings from UNECE, UN-HABITAT, OECD

2010-2011: Persistent resilience: communities coping with marginality, cooperation grant on the theme of resilience, University of Birmingham – co-PI (with Dr John Round, Dr Lauren Andres, and others)

2009-2010: New economy, old geography: rethinking the economic fortunes of Russian cities under market transition, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), PTA-026-27-1997–PI

2010: Climate neutral cities: preparing the UNECE cities to the new challenges, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) – PI

2009: Action Plan on Energy-Efficient Housing in the UNECE Region, Europaforum Wien in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) –PI

2009: A background study on energy-efficient housing in the UNECE region, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) –PI

2008: Path dependence and economic development of Russian cities, Fellowship of the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) - PI

2003-2004: Swedish planning in comparison with the British and U.S. Systems: learning for Russia, Swedish Research Council for the Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) – Co-PI  (with Royal Institute of Technology, KTH)

Research groups

Society, Economy and Environment

Resilience and Urban Living

Dr Golubchikov is actively involved in international knowledge transfer. He serves as Advisor to the Secretariat of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), one of the five UN regional commissions, on its programmes on climate-neutral cities and energy efficient housing. He also consults UN-HABITAT on sustainable housing and sustainable cities.

Membership of Advisory and Expert Boards

Member of the ESRC Peer Review College (UK Economic and Social Research Council), since 2010 (re-elected in 2012)

Advisor to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe(UNECE), Geneva, since 2008

Consultant to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), since 2011

Founding Member and Expert Group Member of the UN-HABITAT Global Network for Sustainable Housing, since 2011

Member of the Expert Reviewer Group for GEO-5 (Global Environmental Outlook), United Nations Global Environmental Programme (UNEP), 2011-2012

Grants reviewer for national research councils: UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC)

Research Monographs

Golubchikov, O and Badyina, A. (2012) Sustainable Housing for Sustainable Cities: Policy Framework for Developing Countries. Nairobi, Kenya: UN-HABITAT (ISBN 978-92-1-132488-4), 82 pages. Download

Golubchikov, O. (2012) Green Homes: Towards Energy Efficient Housing in the UNECE Region (reprint), New York and Geneva: United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe, 70 pages. Download

Golubchikov, O. (2011) Climate Neutral Cities: How to Make Cities Less Energy and Carbon Intensive and More Resilient to Climatic Challenges, New York and Geneva: United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe, 98 pages. Download

Голубчиков, О.  (2011) Климатически Нейтральные Города: Как Добиться Снижения Энергоемкости и Углеродоемкости в Городах и Сделать их Более Устойчивыми к Изменению Климата, Нью-Йорк и Женева, Европейская Экономическая Комиссия, Организация Объединенных Наций, 116 pages. Download

Golubchikov, O. (2009) Green Homes: Towards Energy Efficient Housing in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Region, New York and Geneva: United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe, 69 pages. Download

Голубчиков, О. (2009) Зеленые Дома: Обеспечение Энергоэффективности Жилья в Регионе Европейской Экономической Комиссии Организации Объединенных Наций, Нью-Йорк и Женева, Европейская Экономическая Комиссия, Организация Объединенных Наций, 75 pages. Download

 

Papers in Refereed Journals

Golubchikov, O., Badyina, A. and Makhrova, A. (2013) ‘The hybrid spatialities of transition: capitalism, legacy, and uneven urban economic restructuring’, Urban Studies, forthcoming.

Golubchikov, O. and Makhrova, A (2013) ‘Faktory neravnomernogo razvitiya gorodov v post-sovetskoy Rossii (The factors of uneven development of cities in post-Soviet Russia), Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Seriya 5 Geografiya (Moscow University Vestnik – Geography Series), in press.

Thornbush, M., Golubchikov, O. and Bouzarovski, S. (2013) ‘Sustainable cities targeted by combined mitigation-adaptation efforts for future-proofing’, Sustainable Cities and Society(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2013.01.003)

Golubchikov, O. and Deda, P. (2012) ‘Governance, technology and equity: an integrated policy framework for energy efficient housing’, Energy Policy, 41, pp. 733-741. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.039) 

Makhrova, A. and Golubchikov, O. (2012) “Rossiyskiy gorod v usloviyakh kapitalisma: sotsialnaya tranformatsiya vnutrigorodskogo prostranstva (Russian city under capitalism: the social transformation of intra-urban space)”, Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Seriya 5 Geografiya (Moscow University Vestnik – Geography Series), 2012 (2), pp. 26-31.

Golubchikov, Y. and Golubchikov, O. (2012) ‘Transformatsii and trayektorii russkoy antropogeograficheskoy shkoly (Transformations and trajectories of the Russian anthropogeographical school)’, Izvesiya Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obschestva (Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society), 2012 (4), pp. 16-21.

Golubchikov, O. and Phelps, N. (2011) ‘The political economy of place at the post-socialist urban periphery: governing growth on the edge of Moscow’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36 (3), pp. 425-440. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00427.x)

Golubchikov, O. (2010) ‘World-city-entrepreneurialism: globalist imaginaries, neoliberal geographies, and the production of new St Petersburg’, Environment and Planning A, 42 (3), pp. 626-643. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a39367)

Golubchikov, O., Phelps, N.A., and Makhrova, A. (2010) ‘Post-socialist post-suburbia: growth machine and the emergence of “edge city” in the metropolitan context of Moscow’, Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 1(3), pp. 44-55.

Golubchikov, O., Makhrova, A. and Phelps, N. (2010) ‘Primeneniye kontseptsii “okrainnogo goroda” dlya analiza sovremennykh protsessov urbanizatsii v RF (na primere goroda Khimki) (The application of the concept of edge city for the analysis of the contemporary processes of urbanisation in Russia [the case of Khimki])’, Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Seriya 5 Geografiya (Moscow University Vestnik – Geography Series), 2010 (3), pp. 48-54.

Golubchikov, O., Makhrova, A and Phelps, N. (2010) ‘Sovremennye protsesy urbanizatsii v Podmoskovye: fenomen "okrainnogo goroda" (The contemporary processes of urbanisation in Moscow city-region: the edge city phenomenon)’. Academia. Arkhitektura i Stroitelstvo (Academia – Journal of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences), 2010 (3), pp. 63-68.

Golubchikov, O. (2007) ‘Re-scaling the debate on Russian economic growth: regional restructuring and development asynchronies’, Europe-Asia Studies, 59 (2), pp. 191-215. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668130601125510)

Golubchikov, O. (2006) ‘Interurban development and economic disparities in a Russian province’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 47 (4), pp. 478-495. (http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/1538-7216.47.4.478)

Badyina, A. and Golubchikov, O. (2005) ‘Gentrification in Central Moscow - a market process or a deliberate policy? Money, power and people in housing regeneration in Ostozhenka’, Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography, 87 (2), pp. 113-129. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0435-3684.2005.00186.x)

Golubchikov, O. (2004) ‘Urban planning in Russia: towards the market’, European Planning Studies, 12 (2), pp. 229-247. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.039)

 

Major Policy Paper (Peer-Reviewed)

Golubchikov, O. (2011) Action Plan for Energy-Efficient Housing in the UNECE Region, New York and Geneva: United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe. (Published in English and Russian), 66 pages. Download

 

Chapters in Books

Thornbush, M.J. and Golubchikov, O. (2012) ‘On shaky ground: Arctic communities in uneasy transition to a new climatic order’ (reprint), in: Sato, F. and Nakamura, S. (Eds) Encyclopedia of Earth Science Research, New York: Nova Science (ISBN 978-1-61470-247-4).

Golubchikov, O., Phelps, N.A. and Makhrova, A. (2011) ‘Khimki in Moscow City-region: From “closed city” to “edge city”?’, in: Phelps, N.A. and Wu, F. (eds) International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World?  Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 978-0230276390), pp. 177-191.

Thornbush, M.J. and Golubchikov, O. (2009) ‘On shaky ground: Arctic communities in uneasy transition to a new climatic order’, in: Ferrari, D.M. and Guiseppi, A.R. (eds) Geomorphology and Plate Tectonics, New York: Nova Science (ISBN 978-1607410034), pp. 85-96.

Golubchikov, O. and Badyina, A. (2006) ‘Conquering the inner-city: urban redevelopment and gentrification in Moscow’, in: Tsenkova, S. and Nedović-Budić, Z. (eds.) The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe: Space, Institutions and Policy. Heidelberg and New York: Springer (ISBN 978-3790817263), pp. 195-212.

Golubchikov, O. (2000), entries in: Magidovich, V.I. (ed) Arktika – Moy Dom. Istoriya Osvoeniya Severa v Biografiyakh Znamenitykh Ludey. Polyarnaya Entsiklopediya Shkolnika (Arctic is my Home: the History of the Explorations of the North in the Biographies of Famous People, Student’s Polar Encyclopaedia). Moscow: Severnyye Prostory (ISBN 5-87098-027-7).

 

Articles in Professional Journals

Golubchikov, O. (2011) ‘Potentsial zhilischnogo hozyaystva dlya povysheniya energoeffektivnosti ekonomiki (The potential of the housing sector for the improved energy efficiency of the economy)’, Energiya: Ekonomika, Tekhnika, Ekologiya, 9, pp. 60-68. 

Golubchikov, O. (2006) ‘Do sikh por… ne stupala noga ekologa? (Still… no sign of the environmentalist?)’, Svet–Priroda i Chelovek, 3 (March), pp. 22-23.

Golubchikov, O. (2001) ‘Ekonomicheskiye raschety dlya ekologii (primenitel’no k ekosisteme Kaspiya) (Economic calculations for the environment - in application to the Caspian ecosystem)’, Energiya: Ekonomika, Tekhnika, Ekologiya, 9, pp. 35-39.