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Watch as Mia Gray, Chair of the Awards Committee, presents the Media Communications in Regional Studies award to Michael Taster, Managing Editor of the LSE Impact Blog.

Watch as Neil Lee, Chair of the Regional Studies Association celebrates one of the winners of the 2024 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. The award is given to Canfei He, of Peking University in China.

Our 2024 Student and Early Career Conference, being held in Cambridge proved a great success. Participants met with editors from Finance and Space, Regions eZine and Regional Studies in a Publishing Session; there were also workshops on How to Win External Funding and Next Steps in your Career. It was wonderful to meet so many […]

The Regional Studies Association is sad to announce the departure of our Deputy Chief Executive, Daniela Carl, who left the RSA on 2 September 2024. Daniela has played an important role in the Association since she joined 11 years ago. We would like to thank her for her hard work and wish her all the […]

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 […]

The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint one Early Career Editor to the journal, Territory, Politics, Governance.  Early Career Editor (one position available) The appointment of the Early Career Editor is open to candidates within five years of the date on their PhD certificate on the 9th of September 2024. The Early Career Editor will […]

We would like to welcome the new Early Career and Digital Media Editors for Finance and Space. Finance and Space is a pioneering interdisciplinary journal focusing on diverse aspects of the spatial production of finance and the financial production of space, published by the Regional Studies Association and the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). […]

Watch as Neil Lee, Chair of the Regional Studies Association celebrates one of the winners of the 2024 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. We are delighted to present this award to Mark Sandford, of the House of Commons Library in the UK.

Watch as Neil Lee, Chair of the Regional Studies Association celebrates one of the winners of the 2024 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. The award is given to Bruce Wilson, of the European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University in Australia.

Watch as Neil Lee, Chair of the Regional Studies Association, celebrates one of the winners of the 2024 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. We are delighted to present this award to Elisa Roller of the European Commission in Belgium.

Watch as Neil Lee, Chair of the Regional Studies Association celebrates one of the winners of the 2024 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award. We are delighted to present the award to Eric Sheppherd, of UCLA, in the USA.

Watch as Neil Lee, Chair of the Regional Studies Association presents the 2024 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field to Maryann Feldman, of the Arizona State University in the USA.

Watch as Shenjing He, one of the Managing Editors of the RSA journal Area, Development and Policy presents the award for the 2024 Area Development and Policy Best Referee to Nicholas Phelps, of the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Watch as Shenjing He, one of the Editors in Chief of the journal Area, Development and Policy presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2024 to Diana Mitlin of the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester, UK for her paper entitled ‘The contribution of reform coalitions to inclusion and equity: lessons […]

Our Annual Conference in Florence was a huge success, with 760 paper presentations and 2 stellar plenaries over the three days, alongside several side and social events. You can watch the video featuring some of the highlights and see the photos here. The conference in numbers can be seen in the infographic below.  

The RSA is delighted to announce the new Editor-in-Chief of our journal, Territory, Politics, Governance, Professor Zack Taylor. Zack Taylor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political […]

We would like to welcome Mengdi Wang as the new Secretary of the RSA China Division. Dr. Mengdi Wang graduated with a BSc in Geographical Science from Wuhan University and earned her PhD in Human Geography from the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses […]

Watch as Mia Gray, Chair of the Awards Committee, presents the 2024 RSA Routledge Early Career Award to Milad Abbasiharofteh (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), for his co-authored paper entitled: The digital layer: alternative data for regional and innovation studies. https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17421772.2023.2193222  

We are delighted to be able to share some of the photos from this year’s Annual Conference, held last week in Florence. You can find a few of the many photos here. We would like to thank the organisers, our partners, the volunteer helpers, catering and support staff, and all the speakers and participants for […]

This year we see a change of President to the Association and after several years, Professor John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) steps down as our President. John has been replaced in his role by Professor Heike Mayer. Heike Mayer is Professor of Economic Geography in the Institute of Geography at the University […]

Watch as Mia Gray, Chair of the Awards Committee, presents the 2024 Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award to Han Chu, of the University of Kiel, Germany for her part in the co-authored paper Placing the platform economy: the emerging, developing and upgrading of Taobao villages as a platform-based place making phenomenon in China. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad004

Call for RSA Blog Editor – Career development opportunity The Regional Studies Association (RSA) seeks to appoint an Editor for its popular Blog, which has been running since 2010. The Blog provides a platform for the RSA and its community to share short, engaging articles on research and the latest developments in the field. The key responsibilities […]

Early Career Editor (one position available) The Regional Studies Association and Regional Science Association International – British and Irish Section seek to appoint an Early Career Editor to the journal, Spatial Economic Analysis. The appointment of the Early Career Editor is open to candidates within five years of the date on their PhD certificate on 31st August […]

We would like to welcome Samantha Wannop to the RSA team, in the role of RSA Senior Administrator and Governance Support Officer. Sam has extensive experience as a project administrator for charities working with schools across Sussex. She says: “I have really enjoyed my first few days with the office team and I am looking […]