This August, Marcus Atkinson, Head of Partnerships and Engagement at the RSA, is taking on a 5 day, 1,500km cycling challenge in support of The Launchpad Collective, a UK-based social enterprise that supports refugees to rebuild their lives through meaningful employment. The Launchpad Collective works to ensure that people with refugee experience are not only […]
Watch as Louise Kempton, Trustee of the Regional Studies Association presents the 2025 RSA Regional Leadership Award for Practice and Policy to Stephen Aldridge, Director for Analysis and Data and Chief Economist at the UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to regional studies and policy.
Watch as Stefania Fiorentino, Trustee of the Regional Studies Association celebrates one of the winners of the 2025 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. The award is given to Anne Green of City-REDI, University of Birmingham, UK.
Watch as Stefania Fiorentino, Trustee of the Regional Studies Association celebrates one of the winners of the 2025 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. The award is given to Joyce Liddle, of Durham University (also Visiting Professor at Newcastle University and Emerita Professor at Northumbria University).
Watch as Stefania Fiorentino, Trustee of the Regional Studies Association celebrates one of the winners of the 2025 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. The award is given to Professor Ivan Turok, of the University of the Free State in South Africa.
Watch as Stefania Fiorentino, Trustee of the Regional Studies Association celebrates one of the winners of the 2025 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. The award is given to Flavia Martinelli, of the Universita’ Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, in Italy.
Watch as Mia Gray, Chair of the RSA Awards Committee, presents the 2025 RSA Routledge Early Career Award to Alice Garvey (University of Leeds, UK) for the co-authored paper entitled: A ‘spatially just’ transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102630
Watch as Mia Gray, Chair of the Awards Committee, presents the 2025 Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award to Max Roessler, of the University of Greifswald, Germany and CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden for his part in the co-authored paper Shaping opportunity spaces: the role of narratives in place leadership. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2471541
Watch as Shenjing He, one of the Editors in Chief of the journal Area, Development and Policy presents the award for the Best Area Development and Policy Paper published in 2024 for the paper entitled ‘What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa’ authored by Kathleen Stokes (Dublin City University, […]
Watch as Alan Kinder, Chief Executive of the Regional Studies Association, presents the 2025 Institutional Ambassador Award to the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) in Germany, in recognition of their leadership in promoting regional issues.
The RSA is grateful to Themis Christophidou, Director-General of the European Commission’s Regional and Urban Policy department, for addressing delegates at the RSA’s recent Annual Conference in Porto, Portugal. DG Christophidou not only provided support and encouragement to regional researchers and all those passionate about regions, but she also provided important policy context for all […]
Watch as Stephen Ramos, University of Georgia, USA presents the 2025 RSA Best Book Award to Neil Lee of the London School of Economics in the UK for his book entitled Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of High-tech Economy. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/innovation-for-the-masses/epub-pdf eBook ISBN: 9780520394896
Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space presents the 2025 Award for the Finance and Space Best Referee to Fabio Contel, of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space, presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2024 to Andreas Noelke (Goethe University, Germany) for his paper entitled ‘Private Institutions in Infrastructure Geoeconomics: Limits to the Rise of Emerging Economies in Global Finance’. We are delighted to present this, the very first […]
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) is inviting feedback on its draft strategy to 2030. The finalised plan, due to be launched at the end of the RSA’s 60th anniversary year, will set out the next phase for our work, and we would like RSA members and others help refine our ideas for taking regional studies […]
We would like to welcome Marcus Atkinson, our new Head of Partnerships and Engagement, to the RSA team. Marcus brings extensive experience having worked across higher education, marketing, and international collaboration. His professional focus has been on facilitating meaningful, two-way interaction between academia and external organisations—supporting the societal and commercial impact of research through partnerships, […]
We would like to welcome Victoria Grout, the new Business Support Officer, to the RSA team. Victoria began her career as a Receptionist Administrator and progressed to Assistant Manager at two leading recording studios in London. She then moved into a Business Enterprises Administrator and customer service role at IPC Media. After relocating to Sussex […]
Watch as Zack Taylor, Editor in Chief of Territory Politics Governance, presents the award for the 2025 Best Referee to Andrés Rodriguez-Pose, (London School of Economics, UK).
Watch as Jennifer Clark, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2024 to John Tomaney, Lucy Natarajan, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, and Myfanwy Taylor,(all of University College London, UK) and Maeve Blackman, (Durham University, UK) for their paper entitled Social Infrastructure and ‘Left Behind Places’ The research […]
Watch as Zack Taylor, Editor in Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance, presents the award for the Territory, Politics, Governance Best Paper published in 2024 to Gonzalo Álvarez (University of Tarapaca, Chile). The paper, ‘Indigenous People and Paradiplomacy: Confronting the State-centric Order from Latin American Transborder Spaces’ was authored by Gonzalo Álvarez and Cristian Ovando, both […]
Deadline: 31 July 2025 Apply here About the role The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint an Editor to its journal Area Development and Policy (ADP). The successful candidate will join the existing team of Editors in managing the peer review of general and special issue submissions in their area of expertise, enhancing the journal’s reputation as a world-leading publication […]
Deadline: 31 July 2025 Apply here About the role The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint a Co-Editor to the journal, Territory, Politics, Governance. The successful candidate will join the existing team of Co-Editors in managing the peer review of general submissions in their area of expertise, enhancing the journal’s reputation as a world-leading publication in the field of regional studies, […]
Watch as John Harrison, Editor of 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 Lance R. Newey (University of Queensland Business School, Australia) for his paper entitled: Absorptive Capacity, Complexity and Regional Renewal: A Developmental Psychology Perspective. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2209121
We are pleased to announce that the RSA Board have agreed funding for the 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 […]