St Peter’s College Research Fellow Prof Vlad Mykhnenko will give his inaugural lecture as Professor of Geography and Political Economy on Friday 4 July 2025. His lecture is titled ‘“Never let a good crisis go to waste”: Finding geographies of hope and opportunity in times of upheaval’.
This lecture celebrates Prof Mykhnenko’s recent promotion to a full professorship at the University of Oxford, awarded in 2024 during the annual Recognition of Distinction exercise.
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About Prof Vlad Mykhnenko
Professor Vlad Mykhnenko joined the University of Oxford in 2017. He is a Research Fellow at St Peter’s College and Professor of Geography and Political Economy at the Department for Continuing Education. His research is dedicated to the advancement of geographical political economy – a study of modern capitalist social formations understood as highly dynamic and innovative, but spatially uneven, variegated, crisis-driven systems. Major research foci include the interrelationship between spatial imbalances in production and consumption, physical and material manifestations of urban growth and decline, state power inequalities, and their impact upon economic development, territorial, social, and political cohesion. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Prof Mykhnenko has provided frequent expert comment on the conflict, and in 2024 he co-authored and published a ground-breaking, peer-reviewed report demonstrating how a Green Steel pathway could turbocharge Ukraine’s post-war recovery.