Role
Marianna Poberezhskaya is an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations with teaching responsibilities on the BA (Hons) International Relations, BA (Hons) Politics, and BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations courses. Marianna teaches on the following modules: 'Post-Soviet Geopolitics', ‘Environmental Citizenship’, ‘Environmental Politics and Policy’, ‘Media, Power and Truth’. Marianna is the Research Lead for the Department of Social and Political Sciences.
Career overview
Prior to joining NTU in 2014, Marianna completed a Postdoctoral Lecturing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia (School of Political, Social and International Studies). She received her PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham in 2013. She has two Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degrees in Communication Studies from Altay State University (Russia) and Appalachian State University (USA), as well as an MA in International Relations from Nottingham Trent University. In 2019, Marianna was appointed as an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations.
Marianna is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Research areas
Marianna’s research interests include climate change communication, climate change scepticism, geoengineering, and national climate governance. Since 2009 she has been extensively researching official and media climate discourses in Russia. Exploring the socio-economic and political context of this highly complex country whose political regime heavily relies on the rents from its natural resources, has allowed her to understand the complexity of climate discourse within authoritarian settings. Since 2018 Marianna has expanded her area of expertise by looking at other non-democratic regimes and their approaches to climate change policy and communication. In 2019, Dr Poberezhskaya co-convened the annual conference for the Political Studies Association (PSA). In 2022, Marianna acted as a guest editor for the Special Issue ‘Climate Change in Russia – history, science and politics in global perspectives’ in Climatic Change. In 2023, together with Dr Ellie Martus (Griffith University, Australia) Marianna established and now co-chairs the international Working Group ‘Climate Obstruction in Authoritarian and Non-Democratic States’ (as part of the Climate Social Science Network). As part of her research projects’ impact agenda, Marianna took part in COP26 (Glasgow, UK) and COP29 (Baku, Azerbaijan).
Marianna has a strong publishing record in high impact peer-reviewed international journals, including: Environmental Politics, Post-Communist Economies, Environmental Policy and Governance, Climatic Change, WIREs Climate Change, and Global Environmental Change. She also regularly contributes to various international and national conferences, and actively engages with media (e.g. BBC news, Science, New York Times).
Marianna is currently involved in research projects on Russia, Central Asia and Jordan.
Since 2022 Marianna has been leading and contributing to international training courses on Carbon Literacy (in coordination with the Carbon Literacy Project). In this role, Dr Poberezhskaya has supported hundreds of participants from around the world to achieve their ‘Carbon Literate’ status. She has also co-designed and delivered a customised Carbon Literacy Training for Jordanian civil servants.
- Environmental Politics
- Climate Change
- Environmental Communication
- Russia and climate change
- Russian Media
- Political Communication
- Central Asia and climate change
External activity
Marianna reviews for multiple academic journals and publishing houses, including: Russian Journal of Communication, New Media and Society, Oxford University Press, Environmental Communication, African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Politics, Climatic Change, Area Development and Policy, Problems of Post-Communism, Nations and Nationalism, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Journal of Historical Geography.
Marianna is a member of Climate Strategies, Climate Social Science Network, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, International Environmental Communication Association.
Press expertise
- Environmental Politics
- Climate Change
- Environmental Communication
- Russia and climate change
- Russian Media
- Political Communication
- Central Asia and climate change
- Middle East and climate change