Networks Categories: Research Network

The Regional Studies Association Research Network on on Green(ing) Global Value Chains for Sustainable Regional Development (GGVC4SRD) The Green Transition presents significant economic, institutional and political shifts, challenging our understanding of sustainable regional development. Green Global Value Chains (GGVCs) and their actors such as lead firms and labourers take centre stage in this evolving relationship […]

The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Bridging Governance Gaps in City-regions Addressing Land Take and City-Region Building through Comparative Research Policy goals of social-ecological transformation and sustainability place a strong focus on cities (like SDG 11). A most representative indicator of these policy goals, land take, highlights a shortfall when not addressing city-regional functional […]

The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Municipalism and Regional Fiscal Geographies (MuniFisc) An estimated 85% of the world’s population live under austerity. Over the last decade, this has generated a range of policy responses at the local, national and multilateral level. Across the Global South, structural adjustment has returned, impacting municipal as well as […]

The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Transformative Regional Resilience (T2R) Regions at the age of polycrisis are faced with the dual challenge of being resilient whilst transforming. Our Research  Network on Transformative Regional Resilience (T2R) will be at the forefront of developing and disseminating research  on resilience and regional transformations. Economic shocks and structural […]

About the RSA Research Network on Smart Policies for Regional Innovation, Sustainability and Transitions (SPRINT) This network focuses on the smart specialisation strategy (S3) approach as an evolving method of designing place-based innovation policy. We build on three years of cooperation through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Policies for Smart Specialisation research network, as early career scholars […]

About the RSA’s Research Network on Eco-Social Policy and PRactice for Innovation and Transformation (ESPPRIT) This RSA Research Network ESPPRIT brings together researchers working in the fields of Regional Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Economic Geography, and Governance and Policy Studies to critically engage with eco-social transformations. By examining changes “from below” through social innovation […]

About EdgeNet EdgeNet is the Regional Studies Association research network on peripheral places and regions (and why they matter). We advocate and amplify impactful research on, from, and for the diverse places and regions that are ‘non-core’ or on the ‘edge’ of core activities, including but not limited to: rural, peri-urban, post-industrial, de-populating, and remote […]

Research Network summary Emerging from a successful workshop in Rome in November 2022, this network aims to develop scholarship and policy on just transitions in response to industrial, environmental and technological change. The network proposes to go beyond current framings and develop concepts of just transition which combine twin transitions in ‘green’/environmental and digital/technological terms […]

Research Network summary This research network aims to promote research on regional development in South America, focused on knowledge flows and innovation capabilities. Knowledge capabilities are unevenly distributed within national and subnational territories in South America, a region characterized by a peripheral but significant role in the global production of knowledge. These countries have a […]

Research Network summary This research network explores the conceptual, methodological, empirical, and policy dimensions of the recent shift from knowledge-intensive to “transformative knowledge regions”. By doing so, it seeks to renew the understanding of knowledge as an asset in regional development in light of on-going sustainability transitions. The network brings together scholars of the geography […]

The unique Regional Studies Association Research Network on Citizen Entrepreneurship (RSARNCE) will carry out critical and systematic research and development activities on the involvement of citizens, as, producers, users, innovators and environmental gatekeepers of new forms of entrepreneurial activity in urban regions. The network’s distinctive proposition centres around an extended definition of regional entrepreneurship, based […]

The RSA Research Network on Financial Geographies has operated with RSA support under the auspices of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). Since its launch in 2015, FinGeo has grown into a major global player with more than 600 members in over 50 countries spanning all continents. The Network has brought together geographers, economists, […]

You can watch the recording of the webinar  – How do we talk about ‘other’ geographies in/of Europe? 23 September 2020 here: This research network, established in 2020, connects scholars and practitioners whose work focuses on Central and East European (CEE) geographies and who are interested in postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in and on the […]

This Research Network aims to address trends and issues around the development of the creative and cultural industries at the regional level in UK, fostering a multi-disciplinary debate among researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the field. Topics for this Research Network have emerged for research that the three organisers have been doing in the […]

The RSA Research Network on Acquiring Community Assets – the role of social capital in enterprise, energy and sustainable economic development will investigate the issues which arise when ‘communities’ have been given the opportunity to manage and/or purchase resources for ‘development’ purposes. The resources can be anything from land and physical structures, such as a […]

Based on the successful work undertaken for the first seminar series, this RSA Research Network aims to develop further issues and research questions which have emerged from the discussions and presentations therein. It also seeks to widen its remit and audience. One issue emerging from the first seminar series has been the need to reconcile […]

The RSA Research Network on Effectiveness, added value and future of EU cohesion policy intends to bring together academics investigating the issues of effectiveness, impacts, and added value of EU cohesion policy, as well as practitioners working with this policy. This will allow for promoting dialogue and synergies between the two communities, exploring new exciting […]

This Research Network aims to focus on the role of place, spatial narratives and identity in the leisure, culture and experience economy and planning, and the spatial development potentials of these economies and intends to coordinate, produce and disseminate front line research on the spatial dimensions of the emerging leisure, culture and experience economy.

The key aim of the network is to promote a dialogue between researchers interested in geographies of finance and scholars concerned with post-socialist transformations in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. The network aims to foster synergies between the two research strands and to explore possibilities for new exciting research avenues emerging from such […]

Although there has been structural change in European regions e.g. in political or cultural terms, there have also been areas of convergence. Since the seventies, economic development in Europe has been marked by a de-industrialisation process and tertiarisation. As part of its actions to support the growth of the European economy and its competitiveness, one […]

The purpose of the network is to co-ordinate and promote research on the metropolitan regions in western Europe, bringing together research from a range of disciplines including spatial planning, housing, property and construction, social and economic geography,  and government and political studies. A key aim of the group will be to bring together academics and […]

The Housing and the Regions network has been in existence since 2006. There has been a lull in our activity, owing to other research commitments. But given the continuing housing supply crisis in the UK, and the recent change of government, with its radically different view on how this crisis will be resolved, we believe […]

Whilst mega-events often highlight urban development they also punctuate and accelerate longer term urban regeneration and growth. Despite their high cost and risk (e.g. security) – financial, social environmental – cities and increasingly regions, look to major events and related infrastructure to lever inward investment, improve image and raise citizen morale, and generate a legacy […]

The aim of this Research Network is: To extend and deepen the conceptual development of the concepts of peripherality and marginality. To develop and explore the theoretical underpinnings to analyse these concepts within, though not exclusively, northern Europe. To identify gaps, initiate studies and promote collaboration in empirical research and other investigations into peripherality and […]