Networks Categories: Research Network

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 […]

The aim of RSA Research Network “The impact of global economic crisis on capital cities” was to look at various cases of capital cities’ reactions in the wake of global economic crisis and at different dimensions of mitigating the consequences: government policies, business adjustments, social and human innovations, perceptions and brands of the cities – […]

There is a rapidly growing interest in better understanding the contribution of (formal and informal) leadership to the continuing shaping and re-shaping of cities and regions. This 2nd Phase (2010/2011) of the RSA leadership research network aims to incorporate leadership and related concepts within the wider urban and regional development studies debate(s). The suggestion is […]

This Regional Studies Association Research Network is a renewal of the initial Research Network on Tourism, Regional Development and Public Policy It is our great pleasure to announce the on-line publication of Alma Tourism vol. 8, n. 7, 2017, Special Issue: Beyond the Great Beauty: Rescaling Heritage and Tourism: https://almatourism.unibo.it/issue/view/614 The Special Issue represents one of […]

The RSA Research Network on Transition and Resilience for Post-industrial Agglomerations in Central Europe is searching for the specific driving forces and capabilities explaining the economic resilience of post-industrial agglomeration regions in Central Europe under the particular circumstances of their transition during the last two decades. A special focus will be laid on those post-industrial […]

Regional innovation policy has grown in prominence and scope during recent years, with a realm of action that increasingly stresses the demand side (or the doing, using, interaction (DUI) mode of innovation) alongside a supply side innovation policy based on science and technology. This expansion of the accepted (or aspirational) realm of action for innovation […]

This research network is established with the aim of analyzing and discussing interregional networks involving regional actors belonging to different countries and their implications for theory and policy. In particular the hypothesis of a “virtualization” of the space for collaborative policies should be put to test.

Central and Eastern Europe has a rather recent interest in the modern, democratic local government studies. This trend is mostly explained by the developments of the political studies and the research on local political issues occurred not earlier than the beginning of the 1990s. In this context, the RSA RN POL-LOC will be linked to: […]

This Research Network aims to look at the sharing and documentation of leading practice in the targeting, implementation and evaluation of regional support for enterprise and innovation in the UK. It also looks at the regional knowledge base to enable meaningful policy objectives to be defined, the mechanisms which drive regional development – and particularly […]

1st Seminar, 15-20 August 2004 – IGU, Glasgow ‘Regions and Demographic Change’ Session strand in ‘One Earth, Many Worlds’ At the recent Glasgow meeting of the IGU the RSA Demographic Ageing Working Group organised two sponsored sessions, which attracted over 50 delegates. Papers in the two sessions explored regions and demographic change. 2nd Seminar, London […]

In 2006, the Regional Studies Association (RSA) founded a new Research Network on ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy in International Perspective’, hosted at the Employment Research Institute at Napier University, Edinburgh. The Network’s activities centred around two international seminars, which sought to build upon the success of a previous ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy’ seminar […]

This Research Network aims to expand a fledgling network of local and regional policy makers and academics (members and non-members of the RSA) and embrace less involved cities and urban regions – not so much as a primary result of geographically defined ‘distance’ than one of network-based marginalisation and peripheralisation.

This Research Network aims to investigate and explain regional differentials in unemployment and migration flows between European states.

This Research Network aims to analyse regional evolution in production and use of ‘Green’ inputs and their consumption, including with reference to governance and policies by: Defining the field that contains ‘Green Industry’ activities such as sub-sectors of agriculture, materials, manufacturing, energy, transportation and waste management & recycling Analysing the dynamics of the multi-level governance […]

This Research Network aims to examine the government’s liveability agenda and aims to contribute to the debate on ‘liveable’ residential environment. The Housing and the Regions Working Group was established to explore the English regional housing debate, notably government’s attempt to create ‘sustainable communities’, drawing on wider Europe experience in managing growth and dealing with […]

This Research Network aims to look at the important and relevant gaps in knowledge over how to lead the vital change processes in local and regional regeneration to the benefit of all stakeholders, particularly within the context of the introduction of Local Area Agreements (LAAs).

This Research Network aims to examine the role of local culture on regional economic development in the Mediterranean and Balkan periphery. The first workshop was held on 25th – 27th October 2007 in Romania. The topic of the workshop was ‘Is tourism enough for local development? High expectations and real impact in the periphery of […]

While there has been much research and attention paid to the regions in the core of Europe – and especially to cities, city-regions, old industrial areas, border regions and to some of their underlying characteristics – such as clusters, agglomeration phenomena generally, regional innovation systems, the specific features of peripheral and marginal regions have been […]

In a modern, learning-based economy the primary task of industrial and innovation policies should be to promote innovative interactions between economic sub-systems, organisations and individuals (Lundvall, 1992). KIBS are particularly important in these processes not only because of the significance of their own growth and innovativeness, but also because of their systemic role in influencing […]

While much attention has been paid to the patterns and impacts of foreign direct investment in general, there has been less focus on the outsourcing of services, which now constitute a considerable proportion of foreign investments, contributing to an emerging European shift in the distribution of business services provision. The Research Network aims to build […]

In co-operation with HARED Working Group led by Markku Sotarauta (RSA Finland), this Research Network is launching a series of research studies and international workshops (in Budapest, Prague, Bratislava), with a view to further developing our understanding of human agency in the current practice of regional development.

This RSA Research Network looks at the dynamics in the spatial organisation of regional urban systems and how urban spatial structure affects the performance of (firms and households in) cities in economic, social and environmental terms. In this, the main goal is to provide a more thorough assessment of how and why the spatial organization […]