Dr Vlad Mykhnenko
Profile details
Note: Vlad Mykhnenko is on sabbatical leave until 15 January 2024 (Hilary Term 2024).
Academic Profile
Vlad Mykhnenko is a human geographer, specialising in geographical political economy – a transdisciplinary study of spatialities, landscapes, and contested futures of modern capitalism, its varieties, development trajectories, and alternatives. Empirically, over the past twenty years, Mykhnenko’s research interests have expanded from the middle-income post-communist urban and regional economies of eastern Europe (esp., Polish Upper Silesia and the Ukrainian Donbas) to encompass the local development phenomena observed in high-income western Europe, and far beyond. Since 2003, he has produced well over 100 research outputs, containing books; articles in top peer-reviewed journals, including Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society; Cities; Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space; Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space; European Urban and Regional Studies; Europe-Asia Studies; The Geographical Journal; East European Politics; Journal of Economic Geography; Journal of Geography in Higher Education; Journal of Urban Affairs; Oxford Review of Economic Policy; Regional Studies, and Urban Research & Practice; other documents; and digital artefacts. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Eurasian Geography and Economics and Chinese Geographical Science.
Mykhnenko’s research has so far generated well over £7 million in external research funding, with £1.7 million as a Principal Investigator. At Oxford, Mykhnenko has served as the Consortium Lead and Principal Investigator of the Smart Shrinkage Solutions (3S RECIPE) research programme (€1.7m, 2017-2020) funded by the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe and the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council. During this period, he also served as Co-Investigator on the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded PaCCS Innovation Awards on Conflict and International Development grant, successfully exposing Ukraine’s Hidden Tragedy of forced population displacement from the country’s war-torn regions (£79k, 2016-2018). Most recently, Mykhnenko has led an industry-funded research project on What Makes Cities Tick, 2030? (£15k, 2021).
Mykhnenko holds a PhD in Political Economy from Darwin College, the University of Cambridge (2005); an MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University (CEU, 1999); and an MA (1998) and a BA (1996) in International Relations from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. He joined the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE or ContEd) in January 2017 to take up the Associate Professorship in Sustainable Urban Development, alongside the Research Fellowship in Sustainable Urban Development at St. Peter’s College, Oxford. From February 2018 until September 2021, he served as Continuing Education Director of Graduate Studies for Postgraduate Research Students (DGS Research).
Prior to that, Mykhnenko was Lecturer in Human Geography, Urban Adaptation and Resilience at the University of Birmingham (2008-2012); Visiting Professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty (Autumn 2014); and had held a series of successive Research Fellowships at the University of Nottingham (2008-2011), the University of Glasgow (2005-2008), and the CEU Centre for Policy Studies in Budapest (2003-2004).
Mykhnenko regularly acts in an advisory capacity for the public, private, and civil society sectors, municipal and regional governments, intergovernmental organisations, and multinational companies. He currently serves as a non-executive director of Oxford International Study Abroad Programme Ltd., an EQAC-accredited short course provider. In 2015, Mykhnenko was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to a high-level expert group of 200 urbanists worldwide to provide UN-Habitat with independent policy recommendations on key issues related to sustainable urban development. Consequently, Mykhnenko’s Policy Unit No 9. Urban Services and Technology contribution has formed an integral part of the New Urban Agenda. This action-oriented document, which was officially adopted on 23 December 2016 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, rethinks the way we build, manage, and live in cities, setting global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development.
Aspects of Mykhnenko’s research and analysis have been discussed and featured on the Arirang TV (KOR, here and here), BBC News (GBR, here), BBC News TV (here), BBC World Service TV (here), BBC Radio 4 / BBC World Service Radio (here), BBC Radio 5 Live (here) BBC World Service News (here), Chinese Social Sciences Net (CHN, here), CNN Indonesia (here), The Daily Telegraph (GBR), Expresso (PRT, here), The Financial Times (here), Forbes (USA), The Irish Independent (here), The Irish Voice (IRE), LNK Žinios TV (LTU, here), Ma Clinique (FRA, here), News Medical (here), Newsweek (USA, here, here, here, here and here), Planning, Planning Resource, Quotidiano Nazionale (ITA, here), Social Sciences in China Press (here), Svenska Dagbladet (SWE, here), TV 2 ( NOR, here and here), Vox (USA, here), Zing News (VNM, here), as well as local media outlets in various countries across the globe. For Mykhnenko’s media presence at Oxford, see his Find an Expert page.
Vlad Mykhnenko is originally from Donetsk, Ukraine.
Research
The great bulk of Mykhnenko’s academic research is devoted to geographical political economy – a transdisciplinary study of diverse spatialities, variegated landscapes, and contested futures of modern capitalism, its varieties, development trajectories and alternatives. Geographical political economy is founded on the assumption that economic, political, cultural, and environmental processes are necessarily related – co-evolving spatially, and co-implicated territorially with each other. Over the past twenty years, Mykhnenko’s empirical research interests have expanded from the post-communist East to encompass the problematic of urban and regional development observed in the West, and beyond. His current research is primarily focussed on the application of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological dimensions of geographical political economy to the real-world challenges of urban and regional growth and decline, development and de-development, shrinkage, and resilience in the context of chronic stress (e.g., de-industrialisation and low birth rates) and sudden shock events (e.g., natural disasters and wars).
Citations
As of 1 March 2023, according to Google Scholar, Mykhnenko had 3,570 citations with an h-index score of 24. According to Scopus, his journal articles and books had been cited 1,402 times by other Scopus-listed journal articles, with an h-index score of 13. According to the Web of Science Core Collection metrics, which refers only to citations of his Web of Science Core Collection-listed publications in other core-collection-WoS-listed journal articles, Mykhnenko had been cited 1,096 times overall, with an h-index score of 12.
Based on the Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics) data, containing over 21K+ peer-reviewed scholarly journals and 134K+ books published worldwide in 254 subject categories across the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, Mykhnenko’s publications are currently ranked amongst the top 0.2% research outputs in urban studies, most cited globally during the last twenty years (1394th out of 905,269 publications on the topic of ‘cities’ or ‘urban’, in total); and amongst the top 0.4% most cited on post-communist eastern Europe (342nd out of 89,150 publications on the topic of ‘post-communist’ or ‘post-Soviet’ or ‘east* Europe*’). During the period 2003-2023, his research outputs were also ranked amongst the top 1.2% most cited publications in geography, as a whole, (969th out of 78,790 in total). Overall, Mykhnenko’s career-long citation percentile median currently stands at 88th percentile.
Grant income and funded research projects
Mykhnenko has been successful in research project bids as the sole or principal investigator (PI) with the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe, the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Brazil’s State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), and a number of universities, charitable foundations, and private sector companies, including the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham, the Central European University (CEU), the Open Society Institute (OSI), and Protiviti, Inc. In joint project bids, as a Co-Investigator (Co-I) or a Senior Staff Researcher, he has been successful with the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the ESRC, the Regional Studies Association (RSA), the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7), and the European Research Council (ERC).
The total value of research funding associated with his research currently stands at £6,015,194 (= £7,700,469, adjusted for inflation), with £1,482,004 (= £1,664,982 in today’s prices) as a Principal Investigator.
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April 2022 – October 2022: VISION by Protiviti, with the Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) at Kellogg College, Oxford: Executive Outlook on the Future of ESG, 2032 and Beyond (Ref 5249). £15,000. Co-Investigator
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October 2021 – March 2022: VISION by Protiviti, with the Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) at Kellogg College, Oxford: Executive Outlook on the Future of Work, 2030 and Beyond (Ref 5249). £15,000. Co-Investigator
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June 2021 – October 2021: VISION by Protiviti, with the Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) at Kellogg College, Oxford: What Makes Cities Tick, 2030? (Ref 5249). £15,000. Project Leader
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March 2017 – October 2020: JPI Urban Europe ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF) Smart Shrinkage Solutions - Fostering Resilient Cities in Inner Peripheries of Europe (3S RECIPE). Total €1,688,585. Principal Investigator and Consortium Lead. UKRI ESRC: 3S RECIPE Grant number ES/R000352/1 .
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For full details, visit the 3S RECIPE project website here. Additional resources are also available via 3S RECIPE on YouTube. Download the full 3S RECIPE database here.
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November 2016 – July 2018: UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council: Development Grant - PaCCS Innovation Awards on Conflict and International development: Ukraine’s hidden tragedy: understanding the outcomes of population displacement from the country’s war-torn regions (Ref AH/P008305/1): Total £79,149. Co-Investigator. For some of the project's results, see Chatham House Virtual Roundtable (28 April 2020, online): 'Re-integration or Dis-integration: What Does the Future Hold for Occupied Donbas?' - Watch here; and listen to Hromadske Radio interview (16 March 2021; in Ukrainian) - Hear here.
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For more details, visit the Ukraine's Hidden Tragedy project website here.
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February – October 2016: FAPESP – The State of São Paulo Research Foundation (Brazil) Research Mobility Award on Socio spatial inequalities: a debate around the concepts of exclusion, segregation, fragmentation and resilience. (No. 2015/50414-1): BRL 20,000. Principal Investigator
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July – September 2015: The University of Birmingham Brazil Travel Fund, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. £4362. Principal Investigator
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September 2011 – August 2017: The European Research Council (ERC): PRIVMORT: The Impact of Privatization on the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe, (Grant agreement ID: 269036; funded under FP7-IDEAS-ERC). Total €3,483,058. Senior Research Staff
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May 2009 – April 2012: The European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities) Collaborative Research Project Shrink Smart- Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context (FP7-SSH-CT-2009-225193). Total €1,496,092. Co-Investigator
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2009–2011: The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Varieties of Neoliberalism and Alternative Regional and Urban Strategies. £3000. Co-Investigator
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2006-2008 The Economic and Social Research Council Research Seminar Series on Neoliberalism, Anti-Neoliberalism and De-Ideologisation (RES-451-25-4258). £14,968. Co-Investigator
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2003-2004: Open Society Foundations (USA), International Policy Fellowships Rusting Away? Steel Politics in Post-Communist States (No. B9158): $20,753. Principal Investigator
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2000: The Open Society Institute (Hungary) – Central European University Returning Student Research Funding. $700. Doctoral Researcher
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2000: The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Fieldwork Grant. £330. Doctoral Researcher
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1999: Darwin College Research Bursary, University of Cambridge. £200. Doctoral Researcher
Teaching
Over the past twenty years, Mykhnenko has taught and supervised undergraduate, graduate, and MBA students at ten different higher education institutions across the UK, Europe, and Central Asia, including the Universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, Nottingham, Birmingham, Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, National University of Donetsk, Kyiv Mohyla Business School, Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Human Development University, and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University at Almaty. His commitment to research-led and research-orientated teaching was recognised in 2014, when Mykhnenko achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and in 2015, when he was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Merit) by the University of Birmingham. The outcome of his award-winning 4-year pedagogical experimentation with technology-enhanced learning tools and techniques was consequently published as a peer-reviewed academic paper in The Journal of Geography in Higher Education (see here).
At Oxford, Mykhnenko makes a full contribution to the Department’s flagship MSc in Sustainable Urban Development (MSUD) Course, regularly contributing to its teaching weeks (modules) and co-leading Teaching Week M1 Introducing Sustainable Urban Development, and M6 Urbanism, Community and City-Building. Mykhnenko serves as a course admissions officer, a personal tutor to MSUD students, and regularly assesses their course assignments. In addition, since 2017, he has supervised 21 MSUD dissertation students.
Graduate Research Supervision
Mykhnenko usually welcomes applications to the DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development (DSUD) Programme from outstanding individuals wishing to undertake doctoral research on urban and regional economies; shrinking cities; urban resilience; local economic development; regional growth and regional policy; fiscal federalism, devolution, and local government finance; and territorial cohesion and contentious politics.
Current Oxford DPhil Students:
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Linda Beyer, Household food insecurity and resilience in slum settlements of Nairobi, Kenya, DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development Programme, OUDCE
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Rohan Kocharekar, Land value capture and municipal finance mechanisms, DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development Programme, OUDCE
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Camilo Gomez Osorio, Economic geography of public investment management in African cities, DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development Programme, OUDCE
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Oliver Harman, Local government finance and decentralisation in sub-Saharan Africa, DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development Programme, OUDCE
Past Doctoral Students:
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Zixuan Han (recognised student, 2020-2021), Policy responses to urban shrinkage in North-eastern China, OUDCE Sustainable Urban Development Programme and PhD in Public Administration Programme, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
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Dr. Bin Li (successful completion in 2017): Governance of urban redevelopment in Guangzhou, China from 1990 to 2015. The University of Birmingham
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Dr. David Worrall (successful completion in 2011): Foreign trade developments in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus & Moldova, 1996-2006. The University of Glasgow
Academic Citizenship & Service
Since 2010, Mykhnenko has been making a structured contribution to the development of geography and urban and regional studies through participation in the leading learned societies – the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (Elected Fellow, 2010 - present) and the Regional Studies Association (Elected Fellow, 2015-2022), and the American Association of Geographers (ad hoc Associate Member). Within the RGS-IBG, he is a member of the following four research groups: Economic Geography; Geography and Education; Political Geography; and Urban Geography. Mykhnenko has contributed 16 paper presentations at the annual conferences of the RGS-IBG, RSA, and AAG. Moreover, he has convened 6 special panels of papers, including the RSA 2010 (After the Global Financial Crisis – Cities, Regions, and Sectors in East-Central Europe and the Former USSR); RSA 2011 (Shrinking Cities: The Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context); RGS-IBG 2011 (The Governance of Urban Shrinkage), RSA 2012 (Planning Smarter Cities and Regions), RGS-IBG 2012 (Planning Smarter Places), and AAG 2019 (Smart Shrinkage Solutions). He has also helped to organise the 1st International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Resilience, hosted by the UCL Centre for Urban Sustainability & Resilience in 2012.
At Oxford, during the period February 2018 - September 2021, Mykhnenko served as the Departmental Director of Graduate Studies for Postgraduate Research Students (DGS-R). In October 2021, he was appointed as Chair to the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development Examination Board at the University of Oxford for a two-year term of office.
6 Keynote Addresses
74 External Invited Talks
35 Academic Conference Papers Given
9 Internal Seminars and Public Lectures
Research Groups and Affiliations at Oxford:
Editorship of Journals:
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Eurasian Geography and Economics (Taylor & Francis) - Editorial Board Member
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Chinese Geographical Science (Springer) - Editorial Board Member
External Examiner:
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2014 – 2018 (two full terms): MA in Urban Studies, The University of Manchester at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russia
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2015 – 2019 (two full terms): BA in Management in the Creative Arts, The University of Manchester at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russia
Peer-Review College Member for 10 Research Funding Bodies:
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AHRC, The Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK Research and Innovation
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The British Academy, Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants, UK
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DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Postdoctoral Programme PRIME, Germany
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ESRC, The Economic and Social Research Council, UK Research and Innovation
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GCRF, The Global Challenges Research Fund, UK
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MRC, The Medical Research Council, UK Research and Innovation
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NCN, National Science Centre, Poland
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NCSTE, National Centre of Science and Technology Evaluation (Kazakhstan Ministry of Education and Science), Kazakhstan
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SSHRC, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
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UEFISCDI, The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation, Romania
Peer-Reviewing for 53 Academic Journals
Peer-Reviewing for 6 Academic Publishers
Publications:
120 research outputs, including books, chapters in books, journal articles, published conference proceedings, working papers, research reports, digitised audio-visual media, website contents, and databases.
Authored Books:
(2011). The Political Economy of Post-Communism: The Donbas and Upper Silesia in Transition. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. 244 pages. ISBN: 978-3845409344. Download here.
Edited Books:
(2010) The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? Zed Books. 280 pages. ISBN: 978-1848133495 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1848133488 (paperback).
Chapters in Books:
- (2003) State, society and protest under post-communism: Ukrainian miners and their defeat. In C. Mudde & P. Kopecký (Eds.), Uncivil Society? Contentious Politics in Eastern Europe (pp. 93-113). Routledge, DOI: 10.4324/9780203988787
- (2007) Strengths and weaknesses of weak coordination: Economic institutions, revealed comparative advantages, and socio-economic performance of mixed market economies in Poland and Ukraine. In B. Hancké, M. Rhodes & M. Thatcher (Eds.), Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy (pp. 351-378). Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206483.003.0013
- (2007) The Ukrainian Donbas in transition. In A. Swain (Ed.), Re-constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region: The Donbas in Transition (pp. 7-46). Routledge, DOI: 10.4324/9780203328262
- (2007) Poland and Ukraine: Institutional structures and economic performance. In D. Lane & M. Myant (Eds.), Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries (pp. 124-145). Palgrave Macmillan, DOI: 10.1057/9780230627574
- (2007) Back matter: Statistical appendix. In D. Lane & M. Myant (Eds.), Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries (pp. 258-270). Palgrave Macmillan, DOI: 10.1057/9780230627574
- (2009) Transition economies. In C. Wankel (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World (Vol. 4, pp. 1613-1615). SAGE
- (2010) Introduction: A world turned right-way up. In K. Birch & V. Mykhnenko (Eds.), The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? (pp. 1-20). Zed Books
- (2010) The Corruption industry and transition: Neoliberalizing post-Soviet space? In K. Birch & V. Mykhnenko (Eds.), The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? (pp. 112-132). Zed Books
- (2010) Conclusion: The end of an economic order? In K. Birch & V. Mykhnenko (Eds.), The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? (pp. 255-268). Zed Books
- (2010) Class voting and the Orange revolution: A cultural political economy perspective on Ukraine’s electoral geography. In S. White & D. Lane (Eds.), Rethinking the Coloured Revolutions (pp. 166-184). Routledge
- (2016) Resilience: A Right-Wingers Ploy? In S. Springer, K. Birch & J. MacLeavy (Eds.), The Handbook of Neoliberalism (pp. 190-206) Routledge, DOI: 10.4324/9781315730660
- (2017) 欧米諸国における都市縮小事情と国際的な比較研究の必要性 [Circumstances of urban shrinkage in the West and the need for international comparative research. In Japanese]. In Architectural Institute of Japan (Eds.), 都市縮小時代の土地利用計画 多様な都市空間創出へ向けた課題と対応策 [Land Use Planning in the Age of Urban Shrinkage: Issues and Countermeasures for the Creation of Diverse Urban Spaces. In Japanese] (pp. 168-175) Gakugei Publishers. ISBN: 978-4761540920
Journal Articles:
- (2004) Ukrainian steel: Vulnerable overseas, weak at home. Steel Times International, 28(7): 54-57. ISSN: 0143-7798. Read here
- (2005) What type of capitalism in post-communist Europe? Les Actes du GERPISA, 39(December): 83-112. ISSN: 09815597. Download here
- (2006) Rescaling International Political Economy: Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy. Urban Studies, 43(11): 2126-2127, DOI: 10.1080/00420980600945278
- (2007) The trajectories of European cities, 1960 - 2005. Cities, 24(3): 165-182, DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2007.01.007
- (2008) East European cities - patterns of growth and decline, 1960-2005. International Planning Studies, 13(4): 311-342, DOI: 10.1080/13563470802518958
- (2008) Resurgent European cities? Urban Research & Practice, 1(1): 54-77, DOI: 10.1080/17535060701795363
- (2008) Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine’s Democratic Breakthrough. Europe-Asia Studies, 60(5): 867-869, DOI: 10.1080/09668130802085216
- (2008) Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, and Institutional Design. Europe-Asia Studies, 60(2): 340-342, DOI: 10.1080/09668130701820267
- (2007) Resurgent European cities? Merseyside and North Wales Business Prospect, 5(1): 32-33. ISSN: 1478-6702
- (2007) Resurgent European cities? Population trajectories, 1960-2005. Examination of population growth rates - How do our cities compare? The Yorkshire & Humber Regional Review, 17: 3-5. ISSN: 0961-5334
- (2008) The shifting fortunes of European cities. Town & Country Planning, 77(7/8): 319-322. ISSN: 0040-9960. Download here.
- (2008) Global Focus. Australian Planner, 45(4): 50-51, DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2008.10753393
- (2009) Varieties of neoliberalism? Restructuring in large industrially dependent regions across Western and Eastern Europe. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(3): 355-380, DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbn058
- (2009) Class voting and the Orange revolution: A cultural political economy perspective on Ukraine’s electoral geography. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 25(2-3): 278-296, DOI: 10.1080/13523270902860626
- (2010) Ukraine’s diverging space-economy: The Orange Revolution, post-soviet development models and regional trajectories. European Urban and Regional Studies, 17(2): 141-165, DOI: 10.1177/0969776409357363
- (2010) Неолібералізм в містах: множинність проявів та можливі альтернативи [Neoliberalism in cities: A multitude of manifestations and possible alternatives. In Ukrainian]. Спільне: журнал соціальної критики / Commons: A Journal of Social Critique, 2(November): 18-21. Download here.
- (2012) Schrumpfende Ukraine: Bevölkerungsentwicklung und dilemmata der politik [Shrinking Ukraine: population change and policy dilemmas. In German]. Ukraine-Analysen (105): 2-14, DOI: 10.31205/UA.105.01
- (2013) Die räumliche Differenzierung der ukrainischen Wirtschaft. Die regionale Ebene [The spatial differentiation of the Ukrainian economy: The regional problem. In German]. Ukraine-Analysen (111): 2-9, DOI: 10.31205/UA.111.01
- (2013) Shrinking cities: notes for the further research agenda. Cities, 35(December): 221-225, DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2013.07.007
- (2014) Conceptualizing urban shrinkage. Environment and Planning A, 46(7): 1519-1534, DOI: 10.1068/a46269
- (2014) Lisbonizing versus financializing Europe? The Lisbon Agenda and the (un-)making of the European knowledge-based economy. Environment and Planning C, 32(1): 108-128, DOI: 10.1068/c1246r
- (2015) Die ökonomische Bedeutung des ukrainischen Donbass [The economic significance of the Ukrainian Donbas. In German]. Ukraine-Analysen (147): 2-12, DOI: 10.31205/UA.147.01
- (2016) Cui bono? On the relative merits of technology enhanced learning and teaching in higher education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 40(4): 585-607, DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2016.1217832
- (2016) Varieties of shrinkage in European cities. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(1): 86-201, DOI: 10.1177/0969776413481985
- (2018) Study on Reconstruction from a Natural Disaster and the Progress of Urban Shrinkage: The Case of the Eruption Disaster of Mt. Unzen-Fugendake in Shimabara, Japan. Urban and Regional Planning Review, 5: 135-152, DOI: 10.14398/urpr.5.135
- (2018) Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics. The Geographical Journal, 184(4): 398-412, DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12266
- (2019) Нерівномірний просторовий розвиток, решкалювання держави та територіальне згуртування: міський та регіональний розвиток у Європі та за межами, 1980–2015 [Uneven spatial development, state rescaling, and territorial cohesion: urban and regional development in Europe and beyond, 1980-2015. In Ukrainian]. Спільне: журнал соціальної критики / Commons: A Social Critique Journal. 12(May): 28-39. Download here.
- (2019) State rescaling and economic convergence. Regional Studies, 53(4): 462-477, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1476754
- (2020) Causes and consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine: An economic geography perspective. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(3): 528-560, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1684447
- (2020) Причины и последствия войны в Восточной Украине: экономическо-географический подход [Causes and consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine: An economic geography perspective. In Russian]. Форум новейшей восточноевропейской истории и культуры / Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte, 17(1-2): 146-187. ISSN: 1433-4887. Download here.
- (2022) Understanding forced internal displacement in Ukraine: insights and lessons for today’s crises. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 38(3): 699-716, DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grac020
- (2022) The governance dilemmas of urban shrinkage: Evidence from Northeast China. Journal of Urban Affairs, Online First, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2021.2008255
- (2022) Intergovernmental dynamics in responding to COVID-19 in English and Australian cities. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Online First, DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsac035
- (2023) COVID-19 as a game-changer? The impact of the pandemic on urban trajectories. Cities, 134(March): 104162, DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.104162
Conference Proceedings:
- Niemets, L.M., Baranovskyi, M.O., Bendnar, P., Holikov, A.P. … Mykhnenko, V. & others. (Eds.) (2018) Регіон – 2018: стратегія оптимального розвитку [Region – 2018: An Optimal Development Strategy. In Ukrainian]. Karazin Kharkiv National University Press. 374 pages. ISBN: 978-9662855357
Working Papers:
- (2007) European Cities and Regions Dataset 1960-2005: Methods and Sources. Working Paper No. 3 (Amended version; 25 pp.). Glasgow: The University of Glasgow Centre for Public Policy for Regions. Download here.
Research Reports:
- (2004) Rusting Away? The Ukrainian Iron and Steel Industry in Transition. CPS International Policy Fellowship Program (55 pp.). Budapest: The Central European University Center for Policy Studies and Open Society Institute. Download here.
- (2004) The Ukrainian Ferrous Metals Industry: Settling Old Problems, Facing New Challenges. CPS International Policy Fellowship Program (8 pp.). Budapest: The Central European University Center for Policy Studies and Open Society Institute. Download here.
- (2004) The Ukrainian Ferrous Metals Industry (3 pp.). Budapest: The Central European University Center for Policy Studies and Open Society Institute
- (2009) The specification of the working model. D1 Research Report. Shrink Smart: The Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context (43 pp.). Leipzig: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig
- (2010) Discussion Paper on Cross-Cutting Challenges. D7 Research Report. Shrink Smart: The Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context (32 pp.). Leipzig: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig
- (2010) Убывание в городах Донецк и Макеевка, Донецкая городская агломерация, Украина: Доклад по результатам исследования [Urban shrinkage in Donetsk and Makiïvka, the Donetsk conurbation, Ukraine. In Russian]. (Final ed., 118 pp.). Donetsk: Industrial Economics Institute, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences. Download here.
- (2010) Urban shrinkage in Donetsk and Makiïvka, the Donetsk conurbation, Ukraine. Shrink Smart: The Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context (Final ed., 81 pp.). Nottingham: School of Geography, University of Nottingham. Download here.
- (2011) Mapping urban shrinkage in Europe. Training School Final Report. EU-COST Action TU0803. Dortmund: Department of Spatial Planning and Planning Theory (ROP), Dortmund Technical University. Download here.
- (2012) The Governance of shrinkage in Donetsk and Makiivka (Ukraine): The case of local government finance. Shrink Smart: The Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context (Revised ed., 118 pp.). Birmingham: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. Download here.
- (2012) Governance of shrinkage: Lessons learnt from analysis for urban planning and policy. Shrink Smart: The Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context (47 pp.). Leipzig: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig. Download here.
- (2016) HABITAT III Policy Paper 9 – Urban Services and Technology. Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) Third session, Surabaya, Indonesia, 25-27 July 2016. A/CONF.226/PC.3/22. (Revised ed., 42 pp.). New York: United Nations General Assembly. Download here.
- (2018) Соціальні наслідки вимушеної міграції в Україні: ризики маргіналізації та соціальної ексклюзії [The Social Consequences of Population Displacement in Ukraine. In Ukrainian]. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1210364
- (2018) The Social Consequences of Population Displacement in Ukraine: The Risks of Marginalization and Social Exclusion. Policy Brief. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1217838
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Le Havre (FR) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3841865
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Le Havre (FR) Policy Brief #2. Compact Connected City. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3841866
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Le Havre (FR) Policy Brief #3. Liveability. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3841611
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Lodz (PL) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3841886
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Lodz (PL) Policy Brief #2. Compact Connected City. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3841906
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Lodz (PL) Policy Brief #3. Liveability. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3841919
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Maastricht (NL) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3842036
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Maastricht (NL) Policy Brief #2. Compact Connected City. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3842835
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Maastricht (NL) Policy Brief #3. Liveability. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3842998
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Porto (PT) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3872355
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Porto (PT) Policy Brief #2. Compact Connected City. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3893939
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Porto (PT) Policy Brief #3. Liveability. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3939722
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Stoke-on-Trent (UK) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3940561
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Stoke-on-Trent (UK) Policy Brief #2. Compact Connected City. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3940595
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Stoke-on-Trent (UK) Policy Brief #3. Compact Connected City. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3940601
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Stoke-on-Trent (UK) Policy Brief #4. Liveability. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3942160
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Timisoara (RO) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3975955
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Timisoara (RO) Policy Brief #2. Compact Connected City. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4044246
- (2020) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Timisoara (RO) Policy Brief #3. Liveability. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4064391
- (2020) 3S RECIPE Smart shrinkage solutions: fostering resilient cities in inner peripheries of Europe. In JPI Urban Europe (Eds.), The ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures Results Catalogue. Stockholm: IQS Sweden. Pages 34-35. Download here.
- (2021) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Zonguldak (TR) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4460493
- (2021) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Zonguldak (TR) Policy Brief #2. Compact Connected City. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4479901
- (2021) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Zonguldak (TR) Policy Brief #3. Liveability. Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4509342
- (2021) Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Saving Europe’s Cities with Proper Policy Analysis and Bold Interdisciplinary Approaches. St. Peter’s College Record (2021): 20-21. St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford.
- (2021) Executive Outlook on Cities and Strategy, 2030. Oxford-Protiviti Survey: Key Findings. (22 pp.) Oxford: Global Centre on Healthcare & Urbanisation, Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Download here.
- (2022) Executive Outlook on the Future of Work, 2030 and Beyond. Oxford-Protiviti Survey: Key Findings. (20 pp.) Oxford: Global Centre on Healthcare & Urbanisation, Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Download here.
- (2022) Executive Outlook on the Future of ESG, 2032 and Beyond. Oxford-Protiviti Survey: Key Findings (30 pp.) Oxford: Global Centre on Healthcare & Urbanisation, Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Download here.
Website Content:
- (2017) 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Project Poster. JPI Urban Europe ENSUF Call.
- (2018) Urban and Regional Inequalities in Europe, North America, and BRICS economies, 1980-2015. Urban Transformations blog post (3 December). Download here.
- (2018) Ask an Outsider. Mayor Mike Duggan: How I Am Halting Detroit’s Decline. The Financial Times, 8 January: 20-24. Read here.
- (2018) Regional inequalities in Europe, North America, and BRICS economies, 1980-2015. KUDOS blog post (29 July). Download here.
- (2019) Converging Cities: Why the Gap Between the Haves and Have-nots Is Getting Smaller. Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Newsletter, Hilary Term 2019 (5 February). Download here.
- (2019) 主动应对欧洲城市收缩现象 [Proactively respond to European urban shrinkage. In Chinese]. CSSN–Chinese Social Sciences Net, 21 November. Read here.
- (2020) On causes and consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine: Economic geography perspective. Expert Interviews. UA in Focus, 6 February. Read here.
- (2020) 3S RECIPE: Saving Europe’s cities with proper policy analysis and bold interdisciplinary approaches. JPI Urban Europe Newsletter, 15 April. Read here.
- (2020) Research focus: The reality of shrinking cities. Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Newsletter, Summer Term 2020 (27 July). Download here.
- (2021). 3S RECIPE Smart Shrinkage Solutions, https://urbanresilience.web.ox.ac.uk.
- (2021) Focus: Urban-rural governance drives common prosperity. Chinese Social Sciences Today, No. 334, 16 September: 3. Read here.
- (2022) Ukrainian Cities at War, The Urban Political Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism by Ross Beveridge and Markus Kip in partnership with the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Listen here.
- (2022) Expert Comment: Putin’s war - How did we get here? ... Ukraine 2014. News: Expert Opinion, University of Oxford. Read here.
- (2022) Myths, mistakes and Kremlin revenge: Dr Vlad Mykhnenko and the devastating invasion of his Ukraine home. Oxford Profiles, University of Oxford. Read here.
- (2023) Expert Comment: This is no proxy war - Russia really invaded Ukraine. News: Expert Opinion, University of Oxford. Read here.
Digital Visual Media:
- (2020) 3S RECIPE Project Films – YouTube Channel. Watch here.
- (2021) Cities 2030: Oxford Research Offers Global Perspectives from the C-Suite. A VISION by Protiviti Launch Interview (9:15 min). Watch here or directly via Vimeo.
- (2022) Protiviti-Oxford survey shows North America ‘enthusiasm gap’ about ESG’s future impact. A VISION by Protiviti Interview (13:40 min). Watch here.
Research Databases:
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