The Regional Studies Association has launched its new strategy document, setting out how the Association will support regional researchers, champion evidence-based policy, and promote sustainable and equitable regional development through to 2030. The online launch event brought together a global audience of members, partners, and researchers, with plenty of familiar faces alongside those who are […]
Watch as Sarah Ayres, Chair of the Regional Studies Association, presents the 2026 Sir Peter Hall Award for Contribution to the Field to Alessandra Faggian of the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy:
Watch as Zack Taylor, Editor in Chief of Territory Politics Governance presents the award for the Territory, Politics, Governance Best Paper published in 2025 to Maria Tysiachniouk, Svetlana Tulaeva & Juha Kotilainen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) and Laura Henry, (Bowdoin College, USA) for their paper ‘‘Liberal spaces in an illiberal regime: environmental NGOs, state […]
Watch as Jennifer Clark, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, presents the 2026 Regional Studies Best Paper award to Flavio Pinheiro, (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels, & Harvard University (Growth Lab), USA ); Dominik Hartmann, (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) and Ron Boschma (Utrecht University, the […]
Watch as Ugo Fratesi, Editor in Chief of Spatial Economic Analysis, presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Massimo Giannini of the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy, for his paper ‘A spatial stochastic frontier model with fixed effects and endogenous environmental variables’ https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2024.2414962 You can find the Spatial Stochastic […]
Watch as Ugo Fratesi, Editor in Chief of Spatial Economic Analysis, presents the award for the 2026 Spatial Economic Analysis Best Referee to Elias Giannakis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.
A new pilot small-grants scheme will fund short, high-impact collaborations between RSA members at higher education institutions and the charities, local authorities, and community groups that stand to benefit most from academic expertise. The Regional Studies Association is pleased to introduce the Knowledge and Policy Exchange Grant (KPEG), a pilot initiative designed to close the gap […]
Call for Proposals for the RSA Regions & Cities Book Series Published by Routledge Regional Responses to a Changing World Our planet is currently experiencing significant overlapping realignments, and the regional scale is more vital than ever for understanding the emerging and geographically contingent responses to these global changes and challenges. In the political realm, electoral […]
We are delighted to welcome Michael Glass as the new Editor-in-Chief for the Regions and Cities Book Series. Michael is an assistant professor in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Working at the intersection of sociology, geography, and regional studies, he focuses his primary research on city-region governance, infrastructure, and innovation. He has published in […]
Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Eric Helleiner, (University of Waterloo, Canada) for his paper entitled ‘International Finance and the Global Polycrisis’ Read the paper at https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2025.2514272
Watch as Louis Yi Liu, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, Regional Science presents the 2026 Award for the Regional Studies, Regional Science Best Referee to Kaixuan Huang, of Peking University in China.
Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space, presents the 2026 Award for the Finance and Space Best Referee to Stefanos Ioannou (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Sam Unsworth (Division of Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Bartlett School of Energy, Environment and Resources (BSEER), UCL, UK) for his paper entitled We don’t want to be colonialism […]
Watch as Zack Taylor, Editor in Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance, presents the award for the 2026 Best Referee to Sayd Randle (Singapore Management University, Singapore).
We are pleased to announce that the RSA Board have agreed funding for the RSA Research Network on Uneven and Combined Transitions: Energy, Justice and the Global South (UCT-EJGS). The network aims to enrich just transitions scholarship by linking climate justice to questions of political economy, power, and global inequality, pushing the field toward more […]
Watch as John Harrison, Editor of the Urban and Regional Horizons section of the academic journal, Regional Studies, presents the award for the Best Paper published in Urban and Regional Horizons to Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) for her paper entitled: Regional counter-institutionalisation: contestation and propositions for alternative regionalities. Read the open access […]
Watch as Phil Tomlinson, Editor of the Policy Debates section of Regional Studies, presents the 2026 Regional Studies Policy Debates Best Paper to Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha (University of Essex, UK) for his paper: Smart city governance: assessing modes of active citizen engagement. Read the open access paper at https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2399262
The latest issue of Regions examines the evolving nature of regional innovation systems and their capacity to respond to systemic change. Under the thematic banner ‘Regions as Connected Systems’, Issue 24 brings together a set of articles that collectively examine the forces reshaping regional economies. We are pleased to highlight the articles in the Regional […]
Watch as Louis Yi Liu, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, Regional Science presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Martin Henning, Rikard Eriksson, Petrus Garefelt, Hanna Martin and Zoltán Elekes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Umeå University, Sweden; ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary & Umeå University, Sweden for their […]
2026 is the 20th anniversary of the first issue of Spatial Economic Analysis being published. To mark this occasion, the journal has published a special issue looking back at two decades of research and forward to the questions that matter most right now. When Spatial Economic Analysis (SEA) published its first issue in 2006, globalisation was […]
From green transitions to statelessness, from fiscal geographies to urban manufacturing, the RSA’s active Research Networks cover a wide range of topics. Here’s a full look at the 14 networks currently operating under the RSA umbrella, including four launched in 2025. New in 2025 MuniFisc RSA Research Network on Municipalism and Regional Fiscal Geographies With […]
We are pleased to announce that the RSA Board have agreed funding for the RSA Research Network on VOICES — Visions on Inequality, Community, Exclusion, and Spatial Justice This Research Network on Visions on Inequality, Community, Exclusion, and Spatial Justice (VOICES) is an RSA international research network on denied agency in local and regional development, […]
The RSA Blog Student Summer Series is officially open — running through now until 20th June. Each year, the Summer Series brings some of the most original and grounded regional scholarship to the RSA Blog. From Koli fishing communities navigating urban encroachment in Maharashtra, to peripheral regions rewriting innovation theory, to island communities living through […]
Lisa De Propris was born in 1967 and grew up in Bologna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. She studied for her first degree in Political Science and Political Economy at the University of Bologna graduating in 1992. Inspired by her early mentor Patrizio Bianchi, Lisa continued her studies, moving to the UK to undertake […]